Why she really scares them
By Dick Morris & Eileen Mc Gann
For two weeks, Democrats and their media allies have leveled scorching fire at Sarah Palin. It's not having much effect, but they keep at it anyway.
The latest Fox News poll shows Palin with a 54-27 favorable/unfavorable ratio, which compares well with Barack Obama's 57-36, John McCain's 60-33 and Joe Biden's 51-29. (Of the four, she's the most popular).
Why do Democrats feel so threatened? They've even stopped attacking McCain and President Bush to launch a vicious and sexist barrage at her that would normally make a feminist angry and a Democrat blush.
Basically, it's this: John McCain only endangers Democratic chances of victory this November, but Sarah Palin is an existential threat to the Democratic Party.
She threatens a core element of the party's base — women.
When an African-American like Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell or Condi Rice rises to prominence as a Republican, he or she endangers the Democratic coalition. So would a Republican labor leader.
And so, above all, does the woman Republican running for vice president.
Democrats can't stomach seeing the feminist movement's impetus for greater female political participation and empowerment "hijacked" by a pro-life woman who espouses traditional values. They must obliterate her, lest her popularity eat away at their party's core.
So the Democrats are hysterical in their attacks on her. South Carolina's Democratic Party chairwoman, Carol Fowler (wife of a national party chairman), said that the only qualification Palin had for vice president was that she hadn't had an abortion. Tabloids are digging up dirt on Palin's children. And liberal bloggers have suggested that Palin would neglect her children if she were elected (while the Democratic candidate has young children at home, too).
That liberals would resort to such blatant sexism shows their desperation.
But the Fox News poll of Sept. 8-9 indicates a deeper reality of Palin's popularity. On the question of which of the four candidates best understands what day-to-day life is like in America, Palin finished first, with 33 percent. (Obama drew 32 percent, McCain 17 percent and Biden 10 percent.)
She's not popular because she's a radical feminist or pro-choice advocate. It's because she understands what it's like to be a woman in 21st century America.
She's never ascended to the elite, so she doesn't need to stoop to conquer as most well-heeled feminist leaders must. She lives far from the plastic pseudoreality where a fossilized ideology substitutes for human compassion and empathy. As such, she rises above the slogans of both the left and the right and proposes to bring to Washington a dose of reality — a taste of real life.
She may become the first woman in national office — yet the Democrats, feminists and liberals can't control her, and that burns them up.
Elections come and go, but Palin is a far more fundamental threat to the Democratic Party. And that's why they fear her so.
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Henrik Vibskov
I had a discussion very much like this just last week.
I have a co-worker who, like me, is a Hoosier transplanted to Los Angeles.
He was a Hillary supporter, and is from a Democratic family.
We occasionally have some very frank and objective discussions, and he asked me what I think of Palin. My first thought was that--despite what you may think of her qualifications--she is popular primarily because she is so much more in touch with the average American.
Seriously: When do you think was the last time Michelle Obama cooked up a batch of mac & cheese for the kids? That's not a criticism of her, but of how she relates (or doesn't) to the citizens.
One of the main reasons I've shifted away from the Democratic party is their inherent hypocrisy. They claim to be pro-labor, but support non-enforcement of immigration laws, which displaces workers and drives wages down. They claim to be supportive of women, but look at how Hillary was treated. Look at how they have attacked Palin, not so much on her record, but on woman-and-mother issues. IMO that displays a fundamental contempt for women, motherhood, and families.
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1How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
-- Ronald Reagan
They have forgotten the fly over states and it will cost them. And MO is such a good example of a women when she sends her kids to an overpriced private school and earns 300K so she can hire a cook, a maid and/or nanny. I will not believe that they do not have and hired help. I really can't see her scrubbing the toilet. Can you?
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"Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely, and who rely on you in return. No misfortune, no injury, no humiliation can destroy it."
I can't see anyone scrubbing the toilets if they can afford to hire help. Heck, I had to MARRY the help...
3Well, Dave, a while back I was desperate for creative punishments for my son.
I had him clean the bathroom a couple of times. He didn't mind.
See, men will do *anything* to spite us!
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
-- Ronald Reagan
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