RSSSarah Palin in the Crosshairs
Gene Lalor | November 24, 2009
Ok, we’ve known since she was nominated as McCain’s pick for VP that the Left was salivating to get at Sarah Palin, in more ways than one.
They had a presumed Republican novice in their sights and they collectively zoned in on the governor of Alaska.
Even they felt uncomfortable trashing an American hero, John McCain, aside from saying he was an old fart who didn’t know the internet from a hairnet, much like Joe Biden who thought websites have phone numbers.
However, Palin was more than fair game and they proceeded with vicious ad hominem, family, and political attacks since, closet-sexists as Lefties are, they felt they could freely pummel her and she would roll over and play dead or roll over and let them have their figurative will with her.
They failed in both ambitions.
Sarah Palin proved to be the best choice McCain could have made, drawing far bigger and far more enthusiastic crowds of true Republicans, true conservatives than the wishy-washy war hero.
The so-called “women’s movement” became more a bowel movement when it came to supporting a conservative woman candidate.
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses but don’t even think of giving us a woman who revels in her husband and her womanhood, despises abortion, and who professes conservative values.
Sarah Palin scared the Democratic Left to its rotten core in 2008. In 2009, with the publication of Going Rogue: An American Life, she has petrified them.
With the able assistance of fellow McCain RINOS who are still seeking a scapegoat for their ignominious loss and disastrous screw-ups, the campaign to destroy Sarah Palin, begun 15 months ago, has intensified.
McCain strategist Steve Schmidt joined the Left in lambasting Going Rogue.
With a history of masterfully strategizing defeat on state and national levels, (cf. Tim Leslie, Matt Fong, and Lamar Alexander), Schmidt should have slunk off to the Home for Loser Strategists last November 5th.
Instead, he chose to lie in wait and to snipe at Palin in an attempt to save his sorry rep.
“Total fiction” and disappointing, bleated Schmidt about Going Rogue. This from the same man who undermined Palin’s candidacy from the start by alleging she suffered from post-partum depression.
He went on to almost single-handedly guide the McCain-Palin ticket into a humiliating electoral nosedive last year. Sore loser extraordinaire Schmidt is now whining because Palin had the fortitude to out him and his failures.
Is it any wonder he would be p*ssed?
Schmidt’s getting his nose out of joint over Going Rogue is paled by the Left’s anticipated antipathy toward Palin and her book. It is as if it were a revised edition of Mein Kampf.
Epitomized by the rush to publication of Going Rouge: An American Nightmare, 
the lividity of the Left over Palin is as transparent as their hero, Obama, is opaque.
Palin may not snag the Republican nomination for president in 2012–and may not want it, anyway–but what she is showing with her book tour is that she is wildly popular with conservatives who have been starved out of the Republican Party since 1988.
The brickbats were flying even before HarperCollins announced Going Rogue would hit the stands on November 17th.
Palin hit the talk circuit, appearing on Oprah, Hannity, GMA, O’Reilly, and elsewhere as a warm up for her book tour which is resembling a rock tour.
Her fans are turning out in huge numbers, rain or shine, stolidly waiting in line for hours or patiently whiling the night away in hopes of catching a glimpse of the author.
What most bugs the Left is that she’s being treated much how a former Chicago community organizer and little known senator was treated 2 years ago. The major distinction is that Palin isn’t preaching amorphous change but rather concrete truth.
Nevertheless, Steve Schmidt is not alone among Republicans who are aiming to burn rather than hop aboard the Palin bandwagon.
Hand-wringing Rick Moran of Pajamasmedia.com and Rightwingnuthouse.com carps that Palin is nothing but a “cotton candy conservative,” lacking “heft,” “shallow and depthless,” and is “no Ronald Reagan:” http://bit.ly/XzjYC
Well, no chit, Sherlock! Who IS a Ronald Reagan today?
Moran forgets that many of those same barbs were hurled at Reagan by both the Left and the elitist, east coast Rockefeller Republicans when he dared to reach for the golden ring of the presidency, and before.
Such an original and incisive observation: “Palin is no Reagan,” the equivalent of saying, “Reagan is no Goldwater” in 1980.
We now have as president a man elected on a foolish hope by minorities and guilt-ridden Whites, an untested, inexperienced, egotistical, anti-American narcissist bent on subverting time-honored beliefs and institutions, who bows to foreigners as he gives a one finger salute to millions of Americans.
Here’s a query, RINOS and disenchanted conservatives: You want 7 more years of the debacle in progress or do you want to see a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel and hope it’s not the Obama locomotive bearing down on you?
Sarah Palin may not be Ronald Reagan anymore than Reagan was Barry Goldwater and Going Rogue may not be An American Life anymore than Reagan’s book was Conscience of a Conservative.
I would have preferred that HarperCollins not have used Goldwater’s book title as the subtitle of Palin’s memoir but that’s a small complaint compared to the stakes in 2012.
I hope she runs for the gold ring, for the country’s sake.
(I couldn’t resist including this priceless gem: A San Francisco Bay Area, Nancy Pelosi-Land, independent book merchant refuses to stock Palin’s book saying, “Our customers are thinking people. They’re not into reading drivel:” http://bit.ly/1KPffz
I’m sure. They prefer great works of literature such as When Brucie Does Dallas and Behind the Gay Door.)
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