The other day, on Bill O’Reilly’s show, I tried to explain why elite liberals go nuts at the mere mention of the name – Sarah Palin. And in the process, I touched off a firestorm I never envisioned, or intended.
Here’s what happened: While I have never supported Sarah Palin, publicly or privately, I have long thought that too many of the attacks on her were mean, vicious and irrational. I thought they went way beyond anything she had ever done in the political arena to deserve them. And I figured, this can’t simply because she’s a conservative.
So on Bill’s show, I said I thought liberals (I should have said “many liberals” or “elite liberals”) dislike her so much because she didn’t go to Harvard, Yale or Princeton and instead bounced around a bunch of schools before landing at the University of Idaho – a crime against humanity to many of those elites. Then I said I don’t think they’re too happy with her either because she had five kids … and gave them names like Trig and Track and Bristol, Willow and Piper. Then, I uttered the words that touched off the accusations that I was a “nasty” human being. I said I thought that because she made a choice … to knowingly and willingly have a baby with Down Syndrome … that some liberals detested her for that too.
To put my observations into some kind of context, let’s take a brief trip down Memory Lane to when Sarah Palin was put on the GOP ticket in the summer of 2008.
A female professor at the University of Chicago, a first-rate school, wrote on the Washington Post Web site that Palin’s “greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.” You see, to many supposedly open-minded liberals, a conservative woman isn’t a woman at all. She’s just a conservative; just as a conservative black person isn’t really black to a lot of liberals — only conservative.
Another woman wrote this in Salon, the liberal online magazine, about Sarah Palin’s sudden prominence: “I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.” In other words, the rise of Sarah Palin is akin to the rise of Adolf Hitler.
And a college professor in Canada wrote on the CBC’s Web site that Palin “added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn’t already have sewn up – the white trash vote.”
This hatred amounts to what I called Palin Derangement Syndrome. It’s just plain nuts! And to think female liberals wrote these vicious things about Sarah Palin just because she’s a conservative is also nuts. There are lots of conservative women out there who don’t come in for this kind of trashing. So I figured it must be something else.
It must be, I figured, that they hate her because she’s not like so many liberal feminists. She appears to be happily married, for example. And she’s not neurotic – like so many of them are. And yes, I think her decision to have so many kids (with those names) makes liberals (not all, of course, but many) think she’s hopelessly Middle American.
As for Palin’s decision not to abort her baby with Down Syndrome: Women and their husbands should do whatever they think is best in those circumstances. I have no say in those matters and I would never try to influence someone’s decision in that area. It’s simply, and obviously, none of my business. But I am asking this: Who is more likely to have the baby with Down Sydrome, a pro-choice woman or a pro-life woman? A woman who isn’t religious or one who is? A woman who believes a life – even a life of a fetus – is sacred, or one who doesn’t? I know there are many who will disagree, but I think it’s a safe bet that the pro-life, religious woman who believes in the sanctity of life is more likely to go continue her pregnancy (even as many who fit that description will abort a fetus with Down Syndrome).
That’s all I was trying to say. I never thought I was “politicizing” anyone’s children or anyone’s pain. If I did that, my sincere apologies to one and all. But I still believe many elite liberals hate Sarah Palin for a whole bunch of reasons that have little to do with how she would vote on this issue or that — or even, as they often claim, because they don’t think she’s that smart, There are lots of lbierals who aren’t “that smart” — and they don’t seem to trouble their fellow libs all that much.
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Palin is not qualified and Obama is…..come on were not idiots. He was elected for one reason and one only, he is half black. Tell me his qualifications …..if you can, what had he ever done before being elected president. After being elected all we have heard are lies and more lies, before that it was present, present, present.
Sarah palin connects with the people and this scares both republicans and democrats. If Palin was a liberal man she would be idolized.
Bernie you have lost my respect.
CBS 60 Minutes Sunday January 10, 2010 – Anderson Cooper segment on the new book “GAME CHANGE” written by Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin and NY Magazine’s John Heilemann:
The headline for this book is Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and Reid’s racial defamatory remarks about Obama made during the campaign. Reid admits he made a racial slur that Obama was a “light-skinned A/American with “no Negro dialect” basically stating Obama was a “good N….”.
All the black leaders including Al Not-so-sharp-ton all forgave him and said to Harry, “That’s OK, just get health-care thru Congress.” The hypocrisy of the left!! No Republican or any sane American would ever make such a crude despicable comment and would be laid to waste by the Sharpton machine if they made such a comment as this! At least they would lose their job or censured of the Senate!!
Last night on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper’s segment did not mention this part of the book at all. Guess what part of the book Anderson zeroed in on? Sarah Palin and her differences with the Republican campaign during the election along with Hilary initially turning down Obama for Sec/State. 2 non-issues. But a racial slur made by the highest ranking democrat in the Senate against the future President and all of black Americans went un-reported by 60 Minutes and Anderson Cooper!
Our great biased media hard at work! This one was so obvious it would make a great discussion with you and Bill O’Reilly!
A Fan from Phoenix.
Not one who normally comments ( actually never before) to anyone, but I do admire your commentary. There are many commentators who try to be even and fair minded while making strong analysis ( Dennis Miller comes to mind), but somehow it seems they try so hard to be fair, they overdramatize a point that differs from the conventional view(from the right)so vehemently to prove their objectiveness. Unfortunately, it comes across pretentious even if they are sincere.
You seem to really hit the nail all the time. Your strength is making the alternative point of view reasonable enough for you to understand why one believes in it. Yes, there are times when you won’t give anyone a break for behaving or commenting in a way that is contemptible, but this is the exception that is credible if one recognizes your history. I agree with you about gay marriage but I believe you are the only one who understands and respects how someone might be against it ( as long as it was religious and not pure bigotry). Beautifully perfectly put. But that is the example.
Don’t stop fighting the good fight! Btw, I am in the adult business ( Chicago – 3 adult clubs )but am as conservative as you can get. Pro-life included. Obviously, I wouldn’t be welcomed in any Republican or conservative gathering or be taken seriously despite having success in a market that isnt as easy as one would think. However, I am proof that conservatives can appeal to a vast group (even one as distasteful as mine).
Beware of ignoring similarities!
A lightening rod draws energy from the surrounding country
Obama is gounded in liberalism
Palin is grounded in conservatism
Ones dimming the other is getting brighter
Here is Goldberg’s argument for his comment about why many liberals despise Palin:
(A) Premise: Women who are religious and pro-life are more likely to give birth to a Down Syndrome baby than are women who are not religious and who are pro-choice; the latter group is more likey to have an abortion in that case. (B) THEREFORE, many (pro-choice) liberals “detest” Sarah Palin for her decision to give birth to a Down Syndrome baby.
That is exactly how Goldberg explained his liberals-detest-Palin theory. A perfectly reasonable, if mundane, premise leads somehow to an entirely unrelated, unfounded, attack-in-the-form-of-an-assumption for a conclusion. With that profoundly creative piece of logical distortion, it’s no wonder he has found such a cozy home on “O’Reilley.”
I want to sincerely apologize for Sarah Palin’s and my own unforgiveable “choice”
to “bounce around” to several colleges and take more than four years to get our
degrees. Those like gOtsoh and the others who have found this an irrevocable failure
probably got their own educational “commitment” by getting checks from home on
a regular basis. Those of us who had no benefit of a living parent, or a financially secure home, or maybe (in her case) a school teacher father and three siblings, found it
necessary to take breaks in school to earn tuition and living expenses. This often
led to changing schools when the finances and work situation demanded it. I guess
this is why the liberal “elites” can look down on us – for being financially shaky kids.
I can’t help but wonder how much commitment and dedication gOtsoh and his
“ilk” would show if they had been forced to take this route to get THEIR educations.
The Obama “dirty Chicago” pols arranged to have their lunatic fringe file daily law
suits on Palin which had no validity and were tossed out of court. However her
legal costs for defense against this s— ran up to half a million $’s Maybe you, gOtsoh
would write a book too, if you had mouths to feed. Doubt if they’s sell though.
I’m in San Francisco. The insane politics in this city are ALL carpet bagged. No
more than one or two politicians have lived here long since they imported themselves
from the East Coast. Same goes for Seattle, I know personally. Nancy Pelosi is a carpet bagger from Baltimore, where her father was a mayor, and she was well steeped in
Tamany Hall style politics.
So tired of liberal hypocrites!
I am totally with you! I have lived in this city for 15 years, coming to the last month as the job market and rent market are completely incompatible. I have read all of Bernard’s books precisely because the liberal nuts here have driven me to do so. They make me so crazy. I came here thinking I was a strong liberal myself, escaping from the stupid Republican midwest, only to find myself being discriminated against constantly for being from middle America and I found it almost impossible to get a job. If it were not for my lawyer brother supporting me as I went to school and bounced through a few jobs, I would have had to move away much sooner.
My first boss here was gay and she hated me for being from Nebraska so she fired me without cause and locked me out of that company for 10+ years (I’m still locked out). It was when she did that I first started looking into conservative viewpoints that were independent of religion. My parents are conservative, but I had never heard any conservative opinions or politics voiced from anyone that were not completely based in Biblical beliefs, my parents were fundamentalist Christians who taught me to believe in a 6-day creation theory, if you’re wondering why I couldn’t seriously consider the idea of being a Republican. I was still young and I thought all Republicans were nuts because they couldn’t separate religion from politics it seemed.
Anyway, I worked for many people, black, white, gay, AND straight, who had problems with me being from Nebraska and they kept giving me shit about it and forced the lowest rung jobs on me while less educated Californians with less experience climbed above me quickly (and this was back when I supported democrats very strongly, I supported gay marriage, and I even supported reparations for slavery (I am white so this would have me paying, not receiving). I was pro-choice but only on behalf of everyone else since I never planned to get pregnant but I figured if I ever accidentally did I’d likely NOT abort, even if the child had problems. I’m just not the type of person who could do something like that in good conscience. I am a woman, but I don’t hate Palin for her views on abortion. I was surprised she wouldn’t allow it even in cases of rape (that’s a little extreme for me, even now) but I still see it as a 9-month sentence for a mother to hold out before she could give the kid up for adoption, and I don’t believe anyone is a genetically programmed bad seed so again it really seems like too much fuss was kicked up over that controversy as well. It’s really not such a big deal for a woman to endure a 9-month term if she just wants to give the kid up, and if I was still religious and believed what I was raised to believe, I would be strongly against abortion in ALL cases because I was taught that our souls are already there at conception; God has a plan for every soul, and therefore destroying a soul is destroying God’s plan for someone’s life. I don’t believe that anymore, but I was completely against abortion when I was young and I believed that. I can see how anyone who considers themselves religious, if they honestly believe in God, then of course they would have issues with abortion being legal.
I don’t particularly support Palin on all of her political views or goals either, but Bernard; good for you for standing up for her! So many people have jumped on the trash Palin train and I’ve heard a lot of stupid things out the mouths of liberals (I hear stupid things from them on a daily basis). Palin has yet to stick her foot in her mouth as often as our own state’s representatives. Despite their fancy Ivy League educations, I’ve heard a lot of dumb liberal politicians say a lot of dumb things, and especially propose a lot of dumb ideas that everyone follows like a herd of sheep just because of their fancy educations.
I worked during my college years like a lot of middle class Americans in order to pay for my education, which was also nothing fancy (what can an 18-year-old afford for themselves?) It also took me longer to graduate and I could only go to a school that would not saddle me with a lifetime of debt. My brilliant brother went to law school on some scholarships and then he let me move in so I would only have to pay for school and not rent. I’ve worked for so many spoiled rich-kid Ivy League grads who went to expensive college prep pre-schools that their parents paid for (I kid not). Many of them were legacies who went to the same Ivy League as their parents did. Then they marched straight into management positions at the top of Fortune 500s and they never worked an entry level job in their life. What do they know how to do? They know how to proudly discriminate against working-class Americans from the midwest like me, and that’s all they know how to do, but it’s all they need to know because they do it so well, and it clearly works for them.
Wow! Sorry I’m posting almost a month late on this piece. I must say reading the vitriol coming from the leftist posters here, I think you have hit a nail on the head. These posts o show that no amount of explaining ones position to a liberal will salve their wounded feelings. I believe Liberals are fully grown, unloved, somehow disenfranchised children who have major nervous breakdowns if someone has an opinion other than theirs. The liberals that I know cannot handle the unvarnished truth even if it is logically argued. They certainly can’t handle absolutes when it comes to ethics or morals. Sarah Palin speaks unvarnished truth and is woman who has a strict moral code by which she lives. She is not perfect. Her family is not perfect. Some of her political points of view may not be as finely honed as some of the more “professional” politicians might be. BUT then who IS perfect, and isn’t that why Presidents have advisors? Her appeal is that she speaks from who she is, from her heart if you will. I don’t get that from the vast majority of our politicians. It’s risky in politics to say what you really think. In a few sectors, you lose votes. For me, it has always been difficult to vote because I am never quite sure of who or what I’m getting. I think with Sarah Palin I know who I would be getting.
“The Special Olympics is to winners what Fox is to experts (’Bernard Goldberg’), If you show up, you are one!!!”
Jon Stewart!!!!
Wow…sage sayings from a buffoon. Jon Stewart. Who died made him Plato?
Isn’t sad that a buffoon with an average intelligence has to point out the obvious?!! what is it say about the self appointed pseudo-experts-commentators-pundits? not armed with facts but faith, not intelligence but beliefs!! we have propagandists-for-profit
(Goldberg-Coulter-Limbaugh-malkin-Rove-Cheney-Fox,et al etc, etc)
the Reich had Joseph Goebbels!! . . . . but don’t point it out they may call you Plato!!!
after oboma ruins everthing the right will have to fix everything again!!
Mr. Goldberg,
How dare you cast doubt on the sincere love someone you call a liberal can have for a child with mental challenges, and then try to turn around and “explain” your words…like it was misinterpreted. You sir are an a**hole, and if you think you know what the American people think you are sorely mistaken. Just like most others who make more money than they’re worth, any connection you ever had with a working class American experience has been diluted by the years you have spent in front of a camera in an endless vanity exercise.
Paul, you truly are an idiot
I think Ann Coulter made the point that you know who the real conservative is by how much the liberals despise him (her). I would go one step further. People unprompted by the lamestream media (Bernie’s phrase) will get an impression of her that she’s a nice intelligent lady who loves her family. It then becomes their mission to do whatever’s necessary to convince people to hate her. They fear this lady and that’s one more reason for us to embrace her.
A couple of things. Tell O’Riley that Tiger has two kids not one. You are right people should be more interested with what is going on with Iran, Health Care, the global warming scam than some guy that plays golf.
This is for Dianne, the one who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ- “You have some ‘envy’ hanging off the side of your mouth, you may want to wipe it off…” Just saying…
“What HAS she read, or thought or done for that matter?”
“I hate Sarah Palin, yes hate, because she is an empty suit.”
She has a whole lot of history that’s easy enough to check out, try Google…
“Love one another as I have loved you.” In the words of Jesus, you know the one you claim to follow, yet spew such jealous, hatred, for a woman who ran as the Republican VP nominee… Better run out and get yourself some concealer, your insecurities are shining right through!! And you majored in, let me guess, psychiatry, right?!
Hey Bern! this here posting business is just going great!, you old dog, you knew this would happen if you mentioned Pailn. Now put “Rather”, Palin, Oprah and Obama in one story and you can light up the entire political spectrum for at least a week! wowsers! you ole dog you!
Geez Dianne, take a “Prozac” So Bernie:” But I still believe many elite liberals hate Sarah Palin for a whole bunch of reasons that have little to do with how she would vote on this issue or that” yup but Bern old buddy the real reason is they (liberals) know if she really really wants to play on the stage, she can! we will see, but she can play and the other GOP boys and gals know that.
Oh Dems, well go figure, say does Pelosi’s Limo have a “Kamikaze Meat Ball” yet! check “6″ Dems!
Dear Irish:
The term “middle america” in David’s post refers to the area of the country that the liberal elites call “fly over country” ie anywhere between the east and west coasts EXCEPT for large urban cities filled with brain dead liberal voters ie Chicago. It is a term that can be used for a geographic portion of the country but can also be used to describe the citizens located anywhere in the US which still believe in the exceptionalism of America, that hard work pays off if in nothing else self respect, the value of self sacrific for family and country, and that the promise of the US is to provide an equal opportunity not handouts for generations of drones (welfare recipients) paid for by money coerced from evil capitalilsts (read anyone who is willing to actually work).
Give me a break. This is just as stupid as Palin’s “Real America” rhetoric. I’ve lived all over the country, and I can tell you that everywhere I’ve lived (including Seattle on the “left coast”) the vast majority of people I’ve met love their families, want what’s best for their kids, work hard at their jobs and grill hot dogs and watch fireworks on the 4th of July (yes, even in Chicago, where “brain dead” liberals live). Your kind of glorification of what you call “middle America” is exactly backwards…it is in cities such a Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, etc (in others words, outside of “real America” that most of the country’s culture, intellectual capital, and wealth is created.
Wow! What a moron… Keep up the good work! Keep worshipping the Gov. that quit mid-term to cash in. Nice… It is all about the money.
Personally, I am happy the Repubican party has been hijacked by dimwits!
Scott…. The Republican party has been hijacked by dimwits? Reid, Pelosi, Franken, et al. I think ‘dim’ is too much an illuminatingly, descriptive word, to be placed in front of ‘wit’, to adequately describe and define, these unlit bulbs of the Democrat party.
Your simplistic views of liberals belie your aspirations to appear intelligent. In this sense, you have much in common with Sarah Palin.
Having read the above reply to your firestorm, Mr. Goldberg, I would like to add my two liberal cents. I am a middle class mother in New Jersey with two girls, one of whom is adopted. I am a very liberal person and believe that we as a nation and a civilization are responsible for our actions and that we need to help out those less fortunate. I believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and am Roman Catholic. I have a bachelors degree from a mediocre University and am married to a Princeton graduate (plus NYU!!) I am appalled at your expanded explanation above…you have made the classic mistake of lumping everyone that disagrees with you into one faceless soulless group. I hate Sarah Palin, yes hate, because she is an empty suit…a person who has traded her telegenic good looks into celebrity and therefore thinks that she has something to say. She has nothing to say. All you have to do is listen to her and this becomes clear. She voices platitudes and the crowd goes wild…how will she create more jobs? Less taxes!!! Well golly gee, why didn’t anyone think of that before? An empty suit…and it is you and your fellow opinion makers and “journalists” who support her and cry foul when someone asks her what she has read lately. What HAS she read, or thought or done for that matter. All she has done is procreate and shoot things and pray….well I don’t shoot things but I do procreate and pray so maybe someone will come to New Jersey and interview me. How about it Bernie? Come on, I will make you dinner and show you around and then you can give me a platform for my views. And as to your rude and and obnoxious point that liberals will abort their children at the drop of a hat…well you are a complete moron and should be fired. I hope that karma will come around an bite you in the ass, and soon.
Right on, Dianne! Rock on!
Wow, once again Bernie makes a well thought out point and a liberal freaks out and proves him right with hatred, name calling and vitriol. Good job proving his point. I just wonder how all you libs know she is stupid? Is it because she doesn’t agree with you? Tell me, do you think Nancy Pelosi is stupid or an empty suit? Because just about everyone who talks to her thinks she is dumb as a brick. But she is a good liberal so you just love her. And being a Christian as you claim, should you really hate someone you have never met? I do not trust or believe in anything Obama is doing, but I do not hate him. For the party that is supposed to be all about compassion and civility you seem to typify that total lack of it that your party/movement exemplifies on a daily basis.
God bless you and I hope you can overcome your hatred for all things and people not liberal.
dianne: your hatred of Palin make me question your understanding of your Catholic faith…
Dianne
Your statement about Sarah Palin being an ‘empty suit’ displays your own willful ignorance, or just plain malice towards people with whom you disagree. I can think of a couple of areas where Gov Palin is head and shoulders intellectually above Pres Obama. Energy and Good Government for starters. To say nothing of common sense about America’s role in the world would probably be something too foreign to you to mention.
Is hating somebody like Sarah a Catholic thing? I believe in Jesus and I’m not Catholic. I don’t hate Obama, Reid, Dodd, Shumer, Kerry, Pelosi, Frank (I could add a few more like my representatives (Mikulski, Cardin and Ruppersberger)). They all might be real nice people (like I think Sarah is). I just don’t agree with their political agenda. I don’t think Jesus believes in karma, either.
Bernie- watching your segment on O’Reilly the other night, got me thinking as well as to perhaps why liberals (or elite liberals) find her to be such a threat that they are compelled to continually keep her in the headlines albeit in a negative way.
I am married to a woman who is a teacher and in the teachers union. Her immediate family are also big union people as are many cousins, uncles etc. Spending lots of time around her co-workers, family, and friends of my own who are liberals, I have been seeing a common thread emerge, that in some ways may parallel on a much smaller scale the whole Palin issue. It seems that (Elite) Liberals simply do not like, appreciate, or respect the “Self Made Person.” Liberals in general embrace the community approach, where a task cannot be completed without an approving body of some sort. An approving body represents a government of some degree thus is in line with thier method of thinking. The self made person rejects this approach on a whole sale level, opting to do things thier way, without intervention. Afterall, why would a self made person need unsolicited advice or conditions placed upon them?Elites also hold education to the highest priority. In thier minds ONLY the highly educated can hold any level of office ,or be a credible officer in many organizations or corporations. The self made person also holds education to a high degree of importance, but also feels that it is not neccesary to have a P.H.D. in order to make common sense choices or balance a checkbook, run a small business, manage people, or run for city council, or mayor or perhaps governor or beyond. The self made person with some education knows that hard work and perseverence will ultimately pay off, whereas educated liberals have a more entitlement approach, believing they are owed a lucrative position simply because of thier education. There is reason and truth to the saying: “The (A) students usually end up working for the (C) students”
In my view, most liberals see Sarah Palin as a self made woman, which is worse especially to self named “Feminists” They see her thrive in a state that is harsh, and in many cases “frontier like” They see her strength, and they see her embrace the qualities that are specific to that state (fishing, hunting, ATV’s etc.) They see her educated but not from an elite school. In my view, Sarah Palin is the poster girl for what a feminist really is all about. Liberals (Generalizing) will always look down upon the self made person for these reasons.
What a jerk! Before you open your mouth and put your foot in it check your facts. The Kennedy’s are all LARGE LIBERAL families. They started The Special Olympics For Children like My daughter- the youngest of 4 who happens to have Down Syndrome.I know a lot of Large liberal families and a lot of liberal families with children who are Special Needs children. You should be ashamed of yourself!!!Ass a mother of a child with Down Syndrome I see Sarah Palin as a failure as a mother to her beautiful son who is a true gift from God!
how do you see her as a failure as a mom? Because she is a conservative? And the Kennedys are self made as far as bootlegging is concerned. Good way to make a fortune.
You were right to say ass a mother ,although mother a ass would be more accurate in your case
You are also latently jealous of Sarah Palin because you are not self sufficient beautiful and millions would not read your book or even care that you exist
Liberals hate Sarah Palin because she is genuine compared to their pretentiousness, she is honest compared to their hypocrisy, and she is hard-working compared to their elite inherited positions of wealth and influence. Now, they are furious and green with envy over her popularity and the historic success of her book sales. The typical liberal loon sells a few hunderd (an occasional one thousand or so) books to their friends and are igorned by most Americans.
It must be nice, mister Goldberg, to live in your fantasy world where the opponents of your ideals dislike the politicians you rally behind solely for reasons that are easy for you to demonize. There’s no way that liberal America wouldn’t love Sarah Palin, unless their reasons for doing so were some kind of discriminatory looking down upon by the liberal elite, right? When they speak poorly of her schooling, it wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that she “bounced around”, as you so eloquently put it, and that a bachelor’s degree was the highest level of education she completed. No, it’s not because those things demonstrate a lack of commitment, an inability to devote herself to her career. Hell, their criticism doesn’t even stem from the fact that her education has absolutely nothing to do with politics. She’s criticized strictly because she wasn’t able to to make it into an elite or Ivy League school. That’s it.
Liberals weren’t afraid of Sarah Palin assuming a position of power in this country because she has no real relative experience that would make her qualified to run the most important and powerful country on Earth. It isn’t because she rode her physical attractiveness into the governorship of Alaska. It isn’t because she is terribly out of touch with real issues facing our country, and that she is proud of the fact that in place of experience and understanding, she has folk traditions and hockey mom experience. Nor did it have anything to do with her promises that she would have a dangerously reckless disregard for environmental issues. Nor that her husband was a member of an Alaskan secessionist group that considers Alaskan independence more important than the country as a whole, or that the extent of her foreign policy experience includes seeing Vladimir Putin from her front porch. No, that doesn’t have anything to do with it. At all.
Liberals hate Sarah Palin because she didn’t abort her mentally handicapped child. Because, as you so eloquently put it, having a child with Down’s syndrome is something that a liberal “would never allow to happen”.
You know, before you opened your mouth on this subject, I thought that the talking head that was farthest from reality was Mrs. Palin herself, but you Mr. Goldberg have shown me that it can get much, much worse than Sarah Palin. So, thanks for that. Long live Israeli expansionism and colonialism, right?
Liberals hate Sarah Palin because she is so much like “middle americans” and that is what they truely hate. Because so many people can relate to her life story, they feel that she reprsents them, and the elite liberal media can’t stomach her.
What a stupid comment (by the way, Donald, learn to spell). I’m from “middle America” (Chicago) and do not like Sarah Palin because she’s an egotistical attention grabber who uses her kids as props, quit her job as governor, and has no coherent political philosophy. I don’t hate her, I just think she’s completely unqualified for an serious political office. Even conservative columnist David Brooks called her a joke, and he’s right.
The definition of “politician” is “egotistical attention grabber.” And that is the problem. But I digress. I think Bernie’s absolutely right about the liberals’ hatred of Sarah Palin. They hate all of us who believe in the Bible, hard work, and personal responsibility. So she’s made some mistakes in her life. Who hasn’t? “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Fess up to your own shortcomings before you start blasting someone else for his or hers.
God, why is everyone suddenly acting like first graders on a playground?
I don’t hate the Bible. If I don’t believe in God, but am happy that others do, does that mean I hate it? I don’t hate hard work — that just seems like a baseless insult. Personal responsibility? Is that in reference to welfare? I don’t know any liberals hate any of the things you’ve mentioned and I’ve met a lot of them. I agree everyone makes mistakes — and shouldn’t be condemned for it. I don’t blast Sarah Palin, she just puzzles me. I know I don’t have all the facts, so I would never make sweeping statements about her.
I also try to stay open to all viewpoints. I mostly agree with liberal ideas, but appreciate thoughtful conservative thinking as well. Maybe we can move the discussion to at least a 3rd grade level?