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In Defense of Sarah Palin

Posted on | March 30, 2010 | No Comments

Norman Podhoretz outs himself as an unabashed supporter of Sarah Palin, and it is refreshing to see. I think this sentence alone explains a great deal about her appeal to ‘ordinary’ Americans.

She understands that the U.S. has been a force for good in the world—which is more than can be said of our president.

And in this one, he attempts to capture the reasons behind the remarkable vitriol she inspires, mostly from the Left, but also from a certain ‘class’ of the Right.

When push came to shove, they could not resist what Van Voorhees calls Mr. Obama’s “prodigious oratorical and intellectuals gifts” and they could not resist attributing Sarah Palin’s emergence as a formidable political force to “the base enthusiasms and simian grunts” of “the loathesome Tea Party rabble.”

She didn’t go to the right schools, she isn’t from the right urban area, she fishes & camps & shoots things, she is married to a blue collar worker, she has too many children…..

Here’s what those elitists snobs on both sides of the aisle are forgetting: Most people in America didn’t go to the right schools, there are vast tracts of land outside the uber-sophisticated urban hot spots, large numbers of their countrymen hunts & fish & enjoy camping. We are either blue collar ourselves, or unlikely to look down on someone who does an honest day’s work. We love a woman who loves her children and finds that she can, in fact, have it all; career, gorgeous hubby, beautiful children – and look great while doing it.

At this point, I don’t know that I want her to run for President in 2012. I do know that,

…I would rather be ruled by the Tea Party than by the Democratic Party, and I would rather have Sarah Palin sitting in the Oval Office than Barack Obama.

 



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Category: politics, Sarah Palin, USA

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