Governor Palin had not even finished speaking last Friday when the Obama campaign and the Washington and New York media began picking through her garbage and criticizing her in the most personal, most unprofessional, most despicable terms. And why? Not because of her record. Sarah Palin is one of the most experienced, effective, accomplished, successful public servants working in America today. They criticized her, I believe, because Sarah Palin is not one of them. She is a working mother, for sure, as all mothers are. But she is not their kind of working mother. The media and the Democratic Party--and I should note that it's hard to tell the difference these days--like their female politicians to be liberal, and pro-choice, to be patrons of the arts, to read the New York Times every day and agree with everything in it, and to enjoy hobnobbing with others like them at parties featuring Zinfandel and brie. Sarah Pallin, on the other hand, is a mainstream conservative. She's pro-life and pro-family. She appreciates the arts as much as the next person, but her hobbies tend toward hunting, and fishing, and even the occasional game of hockey. Sarah does read the New York Times every day, though I happen to know she doesn't particularly enjoy it. (Laughter.) She prefers her hometown paper and the latest edition of Outdoor Life. She'll drink Zinfandel and eat brie if she must, but she'd rather be home with her husband and her five children, cooking dinner--yes, Governor Palin still cooks for her family, even though the state of Alaska wanted to pay for a chef to cook for them--and catching up on everyone's day.
Oh, that's not what it is? Shoot.
Posted by Vox at September 3, 2008 12:30 PM | Sarah Palin , politics