Why The Left Hates Sarah Palin
Posted by Evan Sayet+ at November 2nd, 2012
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It just happened again.
I spend a fair amount of time at my local coffee shop. I like to do my writing outside and, besides, it gives me an opportunity to try and initiate political conversations with the people who pass by — my hope always being to begin to enlighten them as to what conservatives really believe (and not just what the leftist media tells them.)
Today, the conversation turned to Sarah Palin and my latest acquaintance blurted out: “Oh I hate her.” Since she did not yet know my politics, and since we were in Los Angeles, it is clear that she expected to hear back what you usually hear back in this city: “Yeah, I hate her, too.” Instead, I asked her why.
At this point I could have predicted her response because it’s the same response you get from liberals no matter who on the Right you’re talking about: “Because she’s stupid.” I replied: “Being stupid is no reason to hate someone, but tell me, which one of her policies do you disagree with?” It wasn’t hard to predict her response: “All of them!”
I continued to push. “Well, then, if it’s all of them, it should be easy for you to name one.” Her reply? “They’re too many to list.”
“So don’t list them, just give me one,” I said.
This went on for awhile until my new acquaintance finally admitted that she didn’t know any of Ms. Palin’s policies. Before she ran off – Democrats always run off when asked to provide facts to justify their hatred for Republicans – I looked her in the eyes and said, “If you don’t know any of her policies, perhaps you should look into them.” She promised she would. She won’t. If there are two things you can count on with Democrats, they are filled with hate and empty of facts.
But it got me to thinking. Given that these people don’t know any of Ms. Palin’s political positions, what is it about her that they hate? It has to be her life story. Now, to all decent people, Ms. Palin’s life story could not be more laudable. She married her high school sweetheart to whom she remains married and with whom she is apparently still in love. In the harshest of climes, she and Todd started a small business which, apparently, they ran well enough to purchase a home and raise a family. Despite the long hours required to run a family business and raise children, when Ms. Palin saw that the public schools were not doing a good job in educating her children, she joined the local PTA and was so effective there that the people who knew her best – and in small towns like Wasilla there are very few secrets – elected her to be their mayor.
Apparently, Ms. Palin was so effective in that job that the mayors of the other small towns and big cities elected her president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. After a highly successful stint as chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, she ran an uphill battle against an entrenched Republican governor and was elected to the top position, Governor, of the largest state in the nation. She did that job so well that her approval ratings – despite having ruffled the feathers of the leading political family in Alaska – bordered on 80 percent.
As Ms. Palin’s political horizons continued to grow, she found out she was pregnant with her fourth fifth child, a baby with Downs Syndrome. Despite knowing in advance that this child would require even more attention and care than other kids, Ms. Palin opted to give her child – Trig – life.
So, given that those who hate – hate!!! – Ms. Palin know nothing more than these facts about her, what is it about Ms. Palin’s life story that generates this blind loathing? The answer is that, at every turn, Ms. Palin’s story debunks the myths of victimization and self-centeredness that is at the heart of the modern liberal ideology.
First, Ms. Palin is married with children. The Democrat Party’s treasured storyline is that women with children – especially those who take care of them themselves – are oppressed, victimized and doomed to a life without personal fulfillment. Ms. Palin’s life proves them wrong and the Democrats hate her for this. If Ms. Palin were a Democrat she would have offed the last child before he was born so that she could have more “me” time to pursue her own wants and pleasures. There is clearly something very “wrong” with this woman who allowed her “special needs” child to live. They hate her for that.
One of the most obvious demographic differences between the Left and the Right is that people without children – those too self-centered and jealous of others stealing “their” attention, angry and hate-filled “feminists,” radical homosexuals and school children too young to have started a family — are just about guaranteed to pull the lever for anyone with a “D” next to their names. Those married with children are just as assured to pull the lever for someone from the Right.
And Sarah Palin ran a small business. Democrats don’t run businesses. In fact, Democrats don’t do anything. If you eliminated from the voting roll everyone who did nothing other than talk – the academic, the newscaster, the actor, the politician – and those who game the system, collecting welfare and years of unemployment benefits and “workman’s compensation” and food stamps, how many people would be left voting Democrat?
Let’s put it this way, if having had a job – having done something that required either physical labor or risking one’s own money – were a prerequisite to work in the White House, Barack Obama would have to fire 94 percent of his top advisers. That’s a real number. Ninety four percent of Obama’s top advisers have never done anything like run a small store, paint a bridge, wire a house for electricity or anything else other than flap their lips.
This is the genesis of the notion that Palin is “stupid.” Liberals are convinced that there’s something “the matter” with people who have jobs. This is what they mean by “What’s the Matter with Kansas,” Kansas being a place where people work – Hollywood, Cambridge Massachusetts, the TV studios in Manhattan are places were people talk. To the liberal, anyone who has a job must be stupid, after all, not everyone is as good a talker as they are, but surely everyone can find one excuse or another to sit at home and collect welfare.
In fact, to the modern liberal, anyone who has a job is not just stupid, he (or she) is dangerous. These people “cling” to their guns and their religion because they toil for their reward. These people are constantly on the verge of violence, whether it’s an attack like the one they caused in Tucson (according to the leftist script) or just by going home and beating their children. Consider the lyrics of “the working man’s troubadour” by Bruce Springsteen:
Early in the morning/factory whistle blows
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes.
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning line
That’s the work, the workin’, that’s the workin’ life.End of the day/Factory whistle cries
Man walks through them gates with death in their eyes.
And you just better believe, boy, somebody’s gonna get it tonight.
(Why?) Cause that’s the work, the workin’ that’s that workin’ life!
Sarah Palin is stupid and dangerous because, well, to those who have made their millions by doing nothing other than talking, that’s the work, the workin’ that’s the workin’ life. Just in case you think that’s just one example of Springsteen’s take on anyone who has a job, consider the horrors of his “daddy” who “worked his whole life, for nothing but the pain.” In this song, “Adam Raised a Cain,” daddy, of course, beats his children, “now he walks these empty rooms searching for something to blame.” And, in fact, it gets worse because, clearly, a child who is beaten is going to continue that cycle of violence and beat his child (“you inherit the sins/you inherit the flames”). So, even to the most sympathetic leftist like Springsteen, not one, not two, but three generations are destroyed all because “daddy” had to go to work.
And they hate Sarah Palin because she joined the PTA and made things better. No, no, that’s not supposed to happen. Schools (read: the teachers’ union) need more money, only more money will solve the problems in the schools. Sarah Palin must be destroyed!
And, finally, they hate Sarah Palin because she was a successful mayor and governor. The Democrat Party narrative is that the American people are too stupid to successfully govern themselves and need Harvard and Yale elitists to dictate to them how they should live their lives. If a graduate of the University of Idaho can successfully run the biggest state in the union, then so can a kid who graduated from Texas A & M or even a kid with a degree from Eureka College.
If Democrats disagreed with Ms. Palin on the issues that would be one thing. But they don’t merely “disagree” with her, they hate her and they hate her without caring one whit about where she stands on the issues. They hate her because she is living proof that everything about the Democratic Party narrative is a lie and for this reason she cannot be allowed to be liked — because if Democrats liked her, they might actually listen to her policies.
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Great article, but Todd and Sarah Palin have FIVE children.
Hey, just one small error-Trig Palin is the governor’s fifth child. Great otherwise!
You’re a terrible person.
Great article about a person to be admired, Sarah Palin! Thank you.
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After reading this article, I have to say that I find you to be as completely ignorant about Democrats as you believe Democrats are about Conservative Republicans. Your complete generalization makes you just as bad and petty as the people you’re writing about. As a democrat woman who has worked my entire life beginning at the age of 14, I put myself through college and graduate school and have owned my own business as well as my own home… I am insulted by such comments as “Liberals are convinced that there’s something “the matter” with people who have jobs.” Or,”Democrats don’t run businesses. In fact, Democrats don’t do anything.” You make a living writing this kind of nonsense? Wow, I want your “cush” job.
Amilea:
If I could say: Everything you just said sounds like you live your life conservatively and independently.
Why do you vote for Democrats?
The additional money you pay in increased taxes when they’re in power could be used to say buy a new car every other year or expand your business and add an employee.
Curious.
Great article….democrats just hate that’s all, they are stupid and hateful….they don’t like succes…………
Wonderful article Mr. Sayet…. This is my standard reply to there Hate…
These people don’t hate Sarah because of the lies,…the lies exist to justify the hate.
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Thanks for an interesting & accurate take on liberals vs. Palin.
Are you sure it has nothing to do with her having cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as foreign policy experience? Are you sure it has nothing to do with her ignorance of the Bush Doctrine? Are you sure it has nothing to do with her having defined the Vice President as someone who “really gets in there with the senators and makes a lot of good policy changes”? Are you sure it has nothing to do with her having claimed to read “every” newspaper and then failing to mention a single one by name (sounds a bit like your conversation with that coffee shop liberal)? Maybe it’s time to stop pretending that liberals hate people with large families and put the blame on Palin herself.
By the way, “What’s the Matter with Kansas” was written to address why so many Republicans in Kansas who AREN’T working continue to vote, against their own economic interests, for Republican candidates.
That wasn’t Palin, that originated from Saturday Night Live. Snopes says that claim is false.
I said that she cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as foreign policy experience (which she did), not that she said she could see Russia from her house.
Umberto’s a hater.
She wasn’t at the top of the ticket if you didn’t know.
Come on your guy Obama has so much experience.
Not many past presidents have any actual foreign policy experience.
Want to know what someone would do in a hypotheitical situation why not ask that.
Just silliness to use your talking points rotely without thinking deeper.
Nah, actually the left LOVES Palin.
Why? Two words — comic relief.
Silly Leftist’s.
What’s comic relief is watching leftist’s attack a straw woman. It’s like voodoo gone wild – an increasingly frustrated bunch, by repeating lies hoping to make them true.
It’s analagous to a parent telling a child not to stick their finger in a light socket or touch a hot stove … the parent is right and has won the argument before it even starts, the child doesn’t yet know this but soon will. The parent knows the learning curve is hard medicine and sometimes best to yield to the tantrums.
Empirical evidence will win the day. It is painful to watch suffering though when life is so short … by devoting so much time defeating realities that are denied.
Here’s a couple of sidebar quotes from the book “the 48 laws of power:
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external precepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority. Come to hold yourself in awe, and you will have no need of Seneca’s imaginary tutor.
BALTASAR GRACIAN, 1601 – 1658
If possible, no animosity should be felt for anyone. . . . To speak angrily to a person, to show your hatred by what you say or by the way you look, is an unnecessary proceeding – dangerous, foolish, ridiculous, and vulgar. Anger or hatred should never be shown otherwise than in what you do; and feelings will be all the more effective in action, in so far as you avoid the exhibition of them in any other way. It is only the cold blooded animals whose bite is poisonous.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, 1788 – 1860
That’s precious:
“Liberals are convinced
that there’s something “the matter”
with people who have jobs. This is what
they mean by “What’s the Matter with
Kansas,” Kansas being a place where people work – Hollywood, Cambridge Massachusetts, the TV studios in
Manhattan are places were people talk.”
Vs.
“I’m Evan Sayet. You may have
seen me on YouTube, on TV,
heard me on the radio. I trave
give lectures and emcee event”
Btw: Buy his book. He’s a hard-working american unlike those writing and talking academics ;P
You missed the part where he’s not only a successful comic, but a successful writer and producer. He’s been on David Letterman, he wrote for “The Arsenio Hall Show”, worked on the show “Politically Incorrect,” wrote and produced “The 70′s: From Bellbottoms to Boogie Shoes” (Discovery Channel), transformed a book into a musical comedy, wrote a screenplay optioned by Penny Marshall, and was the original writer of “Win Ben Stein’s Money.”
Why did you leave those jobs out?
Like it or not, Umberto, Alaska’s governor has to deal with both Canada and Russia. Russian bombers often play cat-and-mouse with our Air Force near Alaska’s airspace, melting polar sea ice created new trade routes but created new security threats. See article.
Wich makes them different from ‘talking and writing’ how?
Writing and producing is a little different than talking. He doesn’t mention writing in this piece.
Writing a screenplay or a TV show does in fact require work, and you DO produce a finished product.
But the subject was Sarah Palin – and I just watched that reality show with her family where she hunted caribou in the Alaskan bush with her father and brought home caribou meat for her freezer – and went commercial fishing for Halibut, and where Todd Palin was teaching his son in order to hand the family salmon business over to him. They cleaned fish, and they camped Alaskan-style, where they had to fly to their camps, the locations were so remote! Todd comes from full blood eskimo stock, and Sarah is familiar with the indian games and how they prepare smoked salmon for the winter. The show filmed her going to an indian fishing camp where Sarah and her daughter helped prepare the fish with Todd’s relatives. It was all simply amazing, and it gave me a new and deep appreciation for who Sarah Palin is!
First, I don’t find Ms. Palin’s statement all that odd. As the governor of a state that had to deal with international law and with Russia in such close proximity, it’s not surprising that she would have special knowledge and experience with these things.
But even if I were to give you the line of attack that somehow that makes Ms. Palin “stupid,” being stupid is not a reason to HATE someone. That’s what my piece was about, why the Left H-A-T-E-S Sarah Palin (why, in the words of Bill Maher, she’s a “c—”)
Ok, but I’m a member of “the left” and I neither hate Sarah Palin nor pay any attention to Bill Maher. It just isn’t accurate or fair to pretend that Palin is blameless and that liberals must hate her because of her personal history. Democrats will, by definition, disagree with much of what she says because she’s a Republican (read: this is a policy disagreement) — and on top of that she said a lot of silly things that made people wonder if she was a viable candidate for high federal office. It is incredibly insulting of you to argue in all seriousness that liberals are lazy and that they instinctively hate anyone who has run a small business.
All of the hate started before any interview was conducted. This cannot be refuted by the left. Own your wrongs instead of mangling someones words to fit your narrative of personal destruction. Transcripts are available – nothing she said was silly.
No leftist truly ever converts unless they’re not truly leftist.
Time and History are against them and their personal time is running out.
A shockingly false and saeodlrnus post, Lisa. The last thing I would ever do is mock the Mother of God, in public or private. Having participated in the 2007 transferral of the Holy Relics of her mother St Anna from Greece to the United States, I strive to revere her as faithful Christians ought and there is simply no way I would ever deliberately slight her.As it happens, I do believe the Virgin Mary occasionally appears to children and others on verdant hillsides St Juan Diego, St Bernadette Soubirous, Fatima, Me?ugorje and so there is no mockery in noting this.You have badly misread my post above, which gently makes fun of Sarah Palin’s own dilatory habits in public scheduling, as well as the vaguely cultic devotion with which her most fervent admirers regard her. Honesty demands that you amend this post at least and retract it at most. Your accusations bring you great shame.
Ms. Palin didn’t make any more gaffes than Joe “foot always in his mouth” Biden or Barack Obama who believes there are fifty-seven states, that the President is Commander-in-Chief of the Marine CORPSE, etc. The Leftists in the media simply ran with that narrative because it served their purpose to attempt to destroy her.
As for the Modern Liberal having antipathy for small business owners (and all workers for that matter), simiply consider what Obama believes, that “if you own a successful business, you didn’t build that.”
In my book, “The KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks” I go into detail and the fear and loathing the Modern Liberal has for people with jobs. You really should read it.
Look, politicians misspeak all the time and we can go back and forth about which party has the worse gaffes. The point is that you argued Palin is apparently immune from criticism and that liberals must “hate” her because she’s hardworking and didn’t abort Trig. None of this is true. If liberals had a natural antipathy to work, national unemployment would be at 50%. But I guess if you consider professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers, and therapists as technically unemployed because these aren’t “real” jobs, then it’s impossible to convince you that maybe liberals wake up and go to work every day just like conservatives do.
Sayet isn’t alone in his observation: The Lawyer’s Party
Who and what is the Democratic Party? – By Bruce Walker
Simple, it is the party of lawyers. Think for a minute what all these politicians have in common: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They are all lawyers. Al Gore went to law school but did not graduate, Lloyd Bentsen, former VP nominee in 1976, went to law school. In contrast, in the Republican party George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were businessmen, Newt Gingrich a history professor, John Boehner a plastic manufacturer, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. The last Republican president who was a lawyer was Gerald Ford and he left office in 1976.
The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work who are often the target of lawyers.
The Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush, Cheney and Romney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or immerse themselves in history, like Newt Gingrich. The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America.
For example, whom do Hillary Clinton and Obama go after? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food chains, large businesses, bankers, anyone producing anything of value in our nation.
Change cannot be brought to our nation by lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from hard work nourished by personal dreams.
The United States represents 5 percent of the world’s population and 66 percent of the world’s lawyers. When you see that 97 percent of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democratic Party, then you may realize why our medical and product costs keep going higher and higher.
There’s no argument here except that businesspeople are categorically better than lawyers. Did you lose a lawsuit recently, or did I just not get the memo that lawyers are evil maniacs bent on the destruction of America?
It might surprise you that there are, in fact, Republican lawyers and Democratic businesspeople, if you (or rather Bruce Walker) expand your very narrow scope beyond who happens to have been on the Presidential ticket the past several election cycles.
Humdrum.
Lawyers don’t produce anything – they want to take. Sure they have a purpose but Democrats by and large have the greatest percentage of lawyers dedicated to pursuing the almighty dollar even to the destruction of the USA.
Look, people have all sorts of ambitions – Conservatives don’t fault that. But this isn’t about that since leftists flat out reject most moderate Republicans attempts at anything bordering left of center. Leftists want a complete reversal of everything known to work and into something that has never worked very well with the cry that it was just never implemented properly and this time will be different.
When the Government money runs out people do have to fend for themselves and work to eat, clothe and shelter.
The only time you’ll see the elite helping someone out is when they do it for PR in front of a camera otherwise it’s all about “Not in my backyard”.
Sure wish I could make this message box a little bigger.
My point, Umberto, is that when people work in industries that produce nothing but words they don’t have to be right, they have to be “clever.” Springsteen, singing a song about being a fireman doesn’t need to know what he’s talking about because he can’t get burned and, in about two and a half minutes, he’s no longer (pretending to be) a fireman, now he’s pretending to be a police officer or a constructino worker.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Rhetoric Industries are so overwhelmingly leftist while the industries that provide tangible results reject Leftism.
I much prefer a “stupid” (i.e. not “clever” or even “articulate”) person with real world experience than the most “brilliant” academic.
I think you’re too quick to underestimate the power of ideology. Words are tremendously important and the marketplace of ideas often determines what is and isn’t successful in the marketplace of goods. The enterprise of politics, in which ideology translates into policies that affect real people, is a case in point. I don’t think the “rhetoric industry” is the special province of either political party, and I think if you know anything about conceptual occupations (whether in academia, politics, art, etc.), you know that words and ideas have tremendous consequences and that there are often tremendous consequences to being wrong.
I agree with you that there is value in real world experience, but I also don’t think you can always divorce real world experience from more conceptual work. One usually informs the other. I guess I just find it odd that someone who literally speaks for a living could have such a dismissive attitude toward rhetoric and intellectual output.
It’s specifically BECAUSE I’ve spent my life in the Rhetoric Industries and with “actors” and “comedians” and others that I recognize how little they know and how little they care to know about the real world.