Palin pwns Shatner

Hi Cynthia – I agree and hope you’re right! I will never understand why so many feminists cannot handle a woman who is incredibly successful in her career, but is also a committed mother and wife (throw in faith, and the radical feminists’ heads spin). It’s pathological hypocrisy. So long as they keep it up, they will motivate more and more people to want exactly what they despise.

And couldn’t agree more: Sarah Palin got to where she is by good old-fashioned hard work. The liberal elite can’t stomach examples of normal, un-anointed people having great success or breaking into arenas that the left desperately wants to control.

Can you imagine if we had an American Dream president, so to speak? And – gasp! – risk teaching the left’s most important voter base – the “victims” – that anyone can achieve anything in this great, free country by taking responsibility for their lives and working hard? If the victims rise above their (fictionalized) victim status (Jesse Jackson’s head might explode trying to stop it by crying racism at every turn), the democrats could never again have a majority. To these elitists, political positions must be held by the chosen, the intellectually superior (in their minds) – those trained in the tactics of creating victims and government dependents, and telling people how they need to live their lives.

To that end, I think the MSM has, unfortunately, been successful enough in portraying Palin as the choice of the non-thinkers, of the mainstream American “simpleton”, those who “cling to their guns and religion” (which reminds, Obama’s disdain for the people he governs should be a crime, and an impeachable one at that). While elitism is far too mild of a word to describe the dangerous affliction of the current administration, I do think it’s a root cause. And I do think it’s the cancer in this Congress. I hope the right is shrewd enough to figure out a way to uncouple intelligence from elitism. As a recovered elitist myself, I’ve come to realize that Gov. Palin has a far higher level of understanding of freedom than I ever had (until I came to my senses and realized there’s no moderate road to truly limited and fiscally-responsible, and thus liberty-enabling government). The right has an elitist problem of its own as well (Lindsay Graham comes to mind, who self congratulates and pays off (left/MSM-created) guilt by supporting cap and tax to save earth, which we greedy humans are killing by audaciously eating hamburgers and doing selfish things like flying home to see our families over the holidays, oh, and exhaling). If the right can somehow chip away the myth of elitism and expose its inherent dangers – I believe 2012 can become Gov. Palin’s race to lose. I believe she is capable of being our Margaret Thatcher, and never have we needed a force like that so desperately.

I hope and pray this wonderful woman runs for president in 2012. And for the first time in my life, I will volunteer for a campaign – with great pride and enthusiasm (she IS the subject of the longest comment I’ve ever written on a blog!). And I’ll be prepared to take a tomato or two from my some NYC elites.

Can you imagine the look on Obama’s face in any debate when she starts throwing his own words back at him… and their consequences?
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