Palin Goes Home To Work

Palin Goes Home To Work
She’s a governor, ya know that?

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Support Sarah

Public service can be thankless work if you’re a conservative who lives the values. Your very existence is viewed as a threat to the power brokers and the entrenched smarty-pants set. This country is still a Republic governed by and for the people. I thought it might be nice to let Sarah Palin know that her valiant efforts to get John McCain elected did not go unnoticed and that she’s supported by the people who matter–the voters.

Here is her address:

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“Palin is a Brainiac”

“Palin is a Brainiac”
Not surprising, actually.

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Alec Baldwin Bumps Into Sarah Palin

Silly and funny, too:

Most of the show stunk, but the Sarah Palin bits were okay. My mom doesn’t think politicians should be on these shows, period. One of the funniest turns on SNL was actually by Jesse Jackson:

What do you think? Is it demeaning to have future presidents or vice-presidents on a comedy sketch show?

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Peggy Noonan: Who Are The Right Wing Nut Jobs?–UPDATED

So the Republican party today is “vulgar” according to Peggy Noonan:

In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It’s no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism.

When Peggy Noonan says that the conservative movement left her thus forcing her to vote for a leftist, if not socialist, this election, it made me wonder: Who are the vulgar Right Wing Nut Jobs that have taken over the party that I hear so much about? I’d really like to know.

Are church going folk Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are those who believe abortion is wrong Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are low income people who vote Republican because they believe in personal responsibility Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are business owners who believe that punitive taxation is wrong Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are Rush Limbaugh’s 15 million listeners Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are FOX viewers Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are women who give birth Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are people who attend state school as opposed to Harvard or Princeton Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are Wal-Mart shoppers Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are people who get married Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are people who work overtime to have enough money for their kid’s band camp Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are people who read the Wall Street Journal as opposed the New York Times Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are people who join the military Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Are people who work hard, go home to their families, and drink a beer with their burger Right Wing Nut Jobs?

Exactly, who, I’d like to know, are the knuckle-dragging weirdos who have thrown the conservative movement into anti-intellectual oblivion?

Surely Noonan must be joking about John McCain being vulgar. John McCain is as establishment, blue-blood Republican as they get. Sure, he’s got the crotchety temperament and he’s not eloquent. But he’s not exactly averse to state-mandated solutions. He is the guy who works across the aisle, remember? Fiscal conservatives and social conservatives have fretted over McCain’s squishiness when it comes to solid conservative beliefs. And Noonan fears he’s too conservative? How much more conservative can one be without being an actual Democrat?

McCain has had a hard time taking it to Obama rhetorically because either 1) he’s not so far away from Obama ideologically or 2) he’s too used to playing patty-cake with the opposition–often working those in his own party over. Maybe the treatment McCain has received by the press and the Dems revealed his true friends. It hasn’t been the left that’s been loving, that’s for sure.

Ms. Noonan, on the other hand, seems to be hedging her bets. She sees an Obama future and fears being on the wrong side of history. Or maybe, she’s just a big snob and choosing a president who is articulate and can turn a phrase ala Reagan matters more to her than the fact that she’d be voting for a socialist with soaring rhetoric.

If an intellectual such as Ms. Noonan can be swayed by the hope and changiness, then it proves my point. Most of the smarty-pants set ain’t too smart.

And I’d like Peggy Noonan and Christopher Buckley and the rest of the establishment elites tell me who qualifies as a Right Wing Nut Job. How have they changed the party into something you people don’t recognize? Because from where I sit, the Republican party has been hijacked alright, but it has been by people who have left everything it means to be a conservative behind.

Congress in Republican control spent like thieves. The last two years under the Democrats have been worse. And it is only the fact that Democrats are worse than Republicans that have many conservatives AND swing voters by the way, holding their noses and voting for McCain.

So Ms. Noonan, since she’s the writer and seems to be representing the snob-class within the Republican establishment, can share her thoughts. No sweeping generalizations, Ms. Noonan. I want specifics. Who are the Right Wing Nut Jobs and what specifically have they done to the party, because I’m not seeing it. I’m seeing a woman who is sick to death of a leader who cannot artfully turn a phrase and who doesn’t articulate the conservative position well. Well, tough nuts, woman. You need to butch up and deal with it. I’d like the conservative movement to have its version of Barack Obama, but we don’t. We have John McCain. He at least has some substance and it’s better stuff than what makes Barack Obama.

I’m sorry that the McCain=Palin ticket offends Ms. Noonan’s sensibilities. Four years of Barack Obama would be far more odious, but maybe the Republican insiders need to experience it to understand it. But at least they’ll be popular with the cocktail hostesses.

UPDATED:

Just as I wonder if Jesus would be welcome to most churches today, I wonder if Ronald Reagan would be welcome at one of Peggy Noonan’s tea parties.

Cross-posted at Right Wing News

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Hatin’ Palin: The Intellectual Exercise In Action

A women’s studies feminist muses intellectually about Sarah Palin’s policy problems:

Her bad highlights and her layers of puffy bangs scream “don’t mind me, I’ve been filing my nails in a log cabin for the last decade and didn’t know the bouffant was now reserved for burlesque dancers and women who think Vogue is a devilish jig invented by Madonna (cue giggle).” I’m pretty sure my college feminist literature professor is vomiting every time she sees bouffant Barbie. Don’t worry Professor Hart, I am too.

Ann Althouse, through whom I found this mind-sharpening essay asks, rhetorically, (I’m guessing, but I’m not too smart since I like Palin and that proves my ignorance):

Is that that what Women’s Studies teaches these days — inane snobbery? And when did throwing up become the preferred form of elite expression?

Well, if you were smarter, Ann, you’d get it. Alas, there’s no help for you, if you can’t even see how Palin’s style reveals how she’s a stupid woman. The best comment at Ann’s place comes via Lisa who says this:

Final proof the women’s movement is dead and we lost.

So called feminists are trashing other women to support a man who used sexism to beat his female opponent.

Why?

Because she is going against the One?
Because she doesn’t agree with them?
Because she is pro-life?

When are we going to stop allowing the Democratic party to hold us hostage with abortion?

Women’s rights do not end and begin with abortion.

And I will not be held hostage by anyone.

Lisa is a public school teacher, a woman, and a Democrat (or was, by her profile’s information). Is she an intellectual? Or does she just not get that the end (Barack Obama getting elected) is justified by any means necessary–including sexist stereotypes ironically propagated by women?

It’s this sort of intellectualism–contemptuous and hypocritical–that “Joe Six-Pack” in all her ignorance understands all too well.

More on intellectualism and Sarah Palinhere and here.

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Day By Day’s Chris Muir Writes About……Me?!–UPDATED

Chris Muir the famous web cartoonist offers this bitter pill to leftists:

As a side note, since my specialty is preventative medicine, I would recommend no pills. A little red meat for the brain-addled vegans might be helpful, though. They invariably vote Democrat and it could all be cured with a good B-complex. With the lack of nutrition, it’s no wonder the Left is so fearful and jittery. It’s just bad biochemistry.

And that little feeble attempt at humor is going to get me a load of hate mail. Don’t mess with vegans.

UPDATED:

For those who are inclined to know the truth, B-12 might not be enough. Some truth medicine might be in order–take the red pill! A conservative friend wrote me and said that he thinks he’d like the blue pill considering the direction things are going. He’s assuming, of course, that ignorance is bliss. And if that’s true, you’d think the far Left would be a lot happier but they’re not.

Cross-posted at Right Wing News

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Intellectualism & Sarah Palin: Or How The Smarty Pants Set Are Threatened By Someone Who Knows Sense

Sarah Palin inspires vitriol for many reasons among the smug knobby-headed class. The latest unguarded moment came courtesy David Brooks who called Sarah Palin a “cancer on the party” to a group of writers from The Atlantic. (As AllahPundit points out, this outburst is a lot like Peggy Noonan’s opinion, also caught in an unguarded moment. And, of course, it differs little from Barack Obama’s “gun clinging” comment.)

Why do they dislike her so?

1. Her state school education and path to power devalues the elite’s Harvard training.
2. She’s homespun. Intellectuals despise homespun. They prefer the calculated indifference they’ve worked so hard to master over the years.
3. Sarah doesn’t seem to care what they think. Perhaps her most grievous error is that she just doesn’t give a moose turd what David Brooks thinks. Everyone should care what David Brooks thinks. And Peggy Noonan. And the rest of the obnoxious snobs.

Here’s the thing, for those in the elite class, who go to parties and hang in social circles, they spend their time telling themselves a story: the story is that middle America is consumed with the provincial and that the provincial is horrible. It doesn’t occur to them that middle Americans have the same concerns and often discuss some of the same things as the elites, but that middle Americans have what is called a life which gives them a context in which to put these fancy-pants ideals. Many theories sound good in theory, but the small business people, and white and blue collar blokes have to actually live with the consequences of these theories know how they affect life practically.

The elites have no feedback loop and that’s the problem.

Sarah Palin ain’t dense. I don’t think she’s even anti-intellectual. I think she’s smart, actually, and not just politically–in that scrappy, street-smart way. She strikes me as above-average smart. What she has, though, is an understanding of how the theories of DC affect the real person who works, raises a family, and lives a life. She has the feedback loop.

When a person has spent his whole life living theoretically, a person who lives real makes him feel insecure. The DC elites are no different than the actors in Hollywood. No wonder they all pal around together. At a certain point, their lack of concrete contributions and endless pontifications sounds hollow and empty. They want their lives to have meaning so they inflate their contributions in their own minds. No one dissuades them of the notion because they hang around people just like them.

This divide isn’t a matter of Republican or Democrat, or even smart or stupid (because I don’t think anyone is making the argument that Brad Pitt is a genius). The divide is a matter of ideas only or ideas with context. The coastal elites have no context, but they have plenty of ideas of how those people who do should live their lives.

A soldier knows who he is and what his job is and the concrete value of it. A mother of a special needs child knows who she is and what her job is and the concrete value of it. A doctor knows who he is and what she does and the concrete value of it. A welder knows what he is and what he’s making and the concrete value of it.

The fact is, America’s founding fathers weren’t just intellectuals. They were intellectuals who were grounded in real world experience. They had farms or businesses or were inventors or something. The sum total of their intellectual contributions were so profound because the ideas were rooted in an understanding of human nature and the real world.

Sarah Palin comes to the national scene as a business woman, mother and real person who experienced how Washington, D.C. ideas affect life. She has substance while the DC set theorizes. I don’t get the sense that Palin is anti-intellectual, so much as she’s pro-common sense. Intellectual means nothing if the ideas stink and produce unintended destructive consequences.

In order to have the healthy dose of sense, though, a person must see an idea through to fruition and live with the results. Most DC insiders, intellectuals and Hollywood elites don’t have to worry about living personally with the results of their ideas–they will be fine economically and personally no matter how things turn out. They have no feedback loop. Sarah Palin has risen to power and been educated in a most interesting way–she knows the power of government to harm and seeks to limit that power.

It’s no wonder the elites are so threatened.

Cross-posted at Right Wing News

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Cowboys Fer Palin, Genuises With Like Totally Smart Genius IQ’s Fer Obama (Wait, is that redununundint?)

The latest tribute to Sarah Palin from an adoring fan:

There is more truthiness here. Oh, wait, it’s a spoof, but it MUST be real, because “puckering elitist IQ pimp(s)” say so.

And even more truth. This time, some helpful advice to Obama:

Ah can’t help it. I luv Sarih Palin!

Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com

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Reaction To Sarah’s Performance

You can see how I reacted, moment by moment here.

Redstate: Ifill was biased. Big surprise.

From StoptheACLU: “She killed.”

Don Surber: “I don’t know if she can still save McCain, but she got game.”

Michelle Malkin on Biden: “Man, he’s tired.” And this:

She was warm, fresh, funny, confident, energetic, personable, relentless, and on message. She roasted Obama’s flip-flops on the surge and tea-with-dictators declarations, dinged Biden’s bash-Bush rhetoric, challenged the blame-America defeatism of the Left, and exuded the sunny optimism that energized the base in the first place.

Mark R. Levin: “She is the bright light in this campaign from my perspective.”

Wanna help? Go here.

The Anchoress: “When I saw that audience [Frank Luntz focus group] response to Palin I thought: here in a nutshell is why the other side has worked so vociferously to destroy her, so quickly.”

Lorie Byrd: “Sarah is no Dan Quayle. And she is no Tina Fey cartoon. And she is no drooling moron.”

Commenter from Ann Althouse (who is fabulous, I must say): “I feel like smoking a cigarette.”

Gateway Pundit with pictures: “The media looked like they wanted to cry.” He’s actually there. I hope there were tears.

Rachel Lucas disclaims any relation to Charles Krauthammer. Well, that’s a relief.

Glenn Reynolds smacks Biden around for his ignorance about the constitution. I found myself explaining his dull-wittedness to the fam. And yelling,”Liar!” at the TV. See what 35 years in the Senate gets you? See how smart you get? And Biden is a lawyer.

Tigerhawk watched an audience-meter and observes: “I’m still fascinated with Biden’s disproportionate appeal to women, as opposed to men, in the audience meter. Democrats have really mastered the code words. There is another way of looking at this, though: The men and women react differently to Biden’s rhetoric, and very similarly to Palin’s. Which is better for the country?”

Jim Treacher reacts as I did to Biden every time he talked–I just zoned: “# Joe’s point aboutZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ”

Cassy Fiano says, “Hey, maybe I’m setting the bar too high. It seems like everyone loved her!”

More later. I’m going to bed.

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