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September 3, 2008
SF Gate: 'With Palin feeding frenzy, proceed with caution'
Topics: Political News and commentariesIs Sarah Palin so very different from liberal "brainiac" journalists believe a politician should be like that they have to comb through her personal life in search of all the details that shout that she would not fit in at their cocktail parties? Debra J. Saunders offers that this is the case and that Palin's naysayers, especially the Washington Press Corps, should proceed with caution, for Sarah Palin is indeed a very different kind of politician and not anything like they've seen before:
[...] She is a runner - which is standard among modern politicians. She is a hunter - which is not.Continue reading: With Palin feeding frenzy, proceed with cautionShe did not move up through the usual cursus honorum of the standard running mate added to a ticket to establish gravitas. McCain didn't need to weight his ticket. So he chose an upstart. He took a risk.
To the Washington press corps, that means she was "not vetted." This gives the press corps a grand excuse to tear Palin and her family into little, tiny pieces.
News reports question how voters might feel about a mother of five serving in the White House. Because Palin's elder son, Track, is about to be deployed to Iraq, she would not be raising five children in the vice president's residence. So why mention five? Because five is three too many. It's not the norm.
With a fisherman/oil-worker husband, a son in the military, and a daughter in high school about to start a family, Palin safely could be called "working class." Except that the cognoscenti don't know how to deal with real working-class people. They think Biden is working class - he must be, because he grew up in Scranton, Pa.
"Ms. Palin appears to have traveled very little outside the United States," the New York Times reported. Again, this rankles journalists, who believe that politicians must share their zest for tourism. How disappointing, then, that Palin did get a passport in 2007, not to trek the Himalayas or walk through the back doors of quaint European villages, but to visit members of the Alaska National Guard stationed in Kuwait, as well as wounded troops in Germany. (I suppose it would be a cheap shot to report that Obama did not visit wounded troops in Germany.)
Palin is a walking style crime. She was a beauty queen. She wears a beehive hairdo. She hails from a small town. She believes there should be debate about teaching creationism in public schools, but she opposes "explicit" sex education. She is so unlike the tolerant brainiacs who report America's news that they just have to comb through her personal life in search of all the details that shout that Palin would not fit in at their cocktail parties. You read it here first - she is a freak.
Posted by Richard at September 3, 2008 1:35 AM
Yes, she sure is different from most politicians. The main deciding difference, however, is that she was chosen because she has a vagina, and John McCain thinks that's the only necessary similarity between her and Hillary to win women votes.
Also, teaching creationism ≠ a fun, casual debate on it.
Also, "explicit" sex-ed = anything other than total abstinence, because it works so great.
Annnndd....Also, brainiac ≠ anyone anywhere above "complete moron who prides themselves on willful ignorance and sympathizes without falter on supporting everything the GOP says they should do, even if it runs contrary to all the opinions everyone had all of a year ago about the same exact person."
Palin was an awful, terrible choice. No one should be scared of her. The only reason she's being treated so strangely by the press is because she's literally such an arbitrary, confusing choice that aside from just assuming McCain had a stroke, there's no simple way to rationalize the whole situation.
Posted by: Adam at September 4, 2008 3:46 PM
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