Unequal treatment, and this was unexpected?  I still wonder who the MSM thinks they are folling.

sorry - s/b “fooling”.  These are not the easiest comment boxes to work with.

Surely you jest....The entire media....print, television, radio, blog etc etc went positively schoolgirl gushing over the emergence of this woman. How many times have we heard pundits say they’re “in love”. It reminds me of the detestable cur Rove going on the television the other day after the failure of the House Vote on this Credit Bail out and near-tearfully complaining about the harsh and hasty attacks of the limo-liberal Pelosi, saying “this really hurt”. Please Karl, we know you enjoy bullshitting but you complaining about the rhetoric of pusillanimous Democrats is like an executioner complaining that his victims neck is a tad tough.

Governor Sarah Palin is playing her underdog outsider role to a tee and if elected will slide smoothly into the Glorious Paradise of Washington and be seen preening with the best of them. She’ll be passing out cake with expert dexterity because Washington’s Odd Folkways are now best summed up by the Rules of Conduct of any Junior High Student Government you care to examine. 

For his part, Obama will be equally adept at maintaining the Pep Rally that is this Hormonal Government.

The reason the neocons (Kristol, etc.) are against Palin is because they are afraid that IF McCain wins; they will be dumped off the wagon.

McCain’s international views are in line with the neocons...but he doesn’t agree with them on many domestic issues.  Also, Sarah Palin is going to speak up about things that neocons don’t care about...and the Repub’s conservative base supports.

Don’t forget, the neocons favored McCain in 2000.  Cheney was put in charge to keep an eye on (control?)
Dubya.  However, when Rove & Co. started the smear campaign against McCain; the neocons didn’t fight for him...they switched their allegiance to Bush.

Please....An edit button :)

I think this article might have been more pertinent a month ago.

Perpendicular to this, but stemming therefrom, I pose my question: Given that A) Rep. Paul is out of the race, and B) that both</i> Sen. McCain <b>and</i> Sen. Obama are unacceptable, for whom should one cast one’s vote in order to register a <u>Neither of the Above protest vote? In 1992 it would have been Mr. Perot, and in 1996 it would have been Mr. Buchanan. As long as Dr. Paul was running, it would have been a no-brainer.

Also, however, notwithstanding that my sole point of concurrence with Gov. Palin is her NRA membership—anathema maranatha to proponents of the dishonorable objective of disarmimg the citizenry—I think that analysis of the storm of out-&-out obscenity with which the Left greeted her candidacy, is worth examination on all levels, because it reveals class-prejudice of “Liberals” and denizens of points left against the flesh-&-blood working class and lower-middle class. Actually, this is an appeal to my betters to explore this phenomenon of class-prejudice, document such examples as their research might unearth, and publicise these far and wide.

Finally, while I got this from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy(!), it sounds as if the original may be Aesop: (condensed paraphrase) A man and a horse both found themselves menaced by a wolf. Therefore the man proposed that the horse permit saddle and bridle to make coordination of effort easier. In tandem they slew the wolf handily, after which the horse requested prompt removal of those artifacts hateful to him. The reply? “The hell you say! Gidd’yap, Dobbin.”

There, in nuce, is the ambition of every Left sectlet—although I am sure subsequent commenters can find wider application to current affairs besides mine.

Great use of SAT words.  This is a good example to set for children who need to pass standardized tests.  You may want to check the meanings of invidious and insidious.  The etymology of invidious is similar to that of envy whereas the etymology of insidious is to sit on, entrap.

Wolves, including media wolves, stalk weaklings.  Palin has yet to show evidence of thought in her unscripted performances. So far, her interviews have consisted of an alarming (to her supporters) mixture of talking points, cliches, and babble.  It will be interesting to see if she can turn her brain on tonight during the debate and give something other than a robot response.  She will be helped by the fact that her opponent is a world-class babbler and cliche artist, himself, and the moderator is yet another affirmative-action black woman (with credibility also compromised by her pro-Obama book) who can be expected to ask questions ranging from inane to idiotic.

Enabling both Biden and Palin to respond by saying whatever they had planned on saying beforehand.

We already know Biden is a hopeless buffoon, but at least there is a chance of seeing Palin actually having to think for herself once or twice, and thereby taking her measure.

Leftists hate Sarah Palin because she’s a pro-life Christian. It’s all about abortion for them.

I’m not sure the left and the media hate Palin because she has energized the base. Obviously they had to respond given an energized based. But the base has been energized because of who Palin is not: New England- ivy-league educated lawyer, decades old member of the Washinton elite. She is a conservative wife and mother, and that is a threat to the elite’s view of of what womanhood should be about these days. More dangerously, she could deliver those voters that, against all common sense, put W. in the White House, not once, but twice. Especially since McCain has zero appeal, except among neo-cons and other hypermilitaristic types. She speaks like an outsider, thinks like an outsider, and doesn’t look the the usualy ghastly women involved in politics.

She’s not going to get Borked, Bork was the foremost authority in his field at the time. Palin is not. She may get Myersed, if she doesn’t perform up to Washington standards. And I have no problem with her not speaking like a Biden. I wouldn’t even have minded Myers on the Supreme Court. American is, or used to be, about the regular guy making it, and even in politics your’re supposed to think that congresspeople are no different than those they represent, which may be the case during their first months. But without term limits, the political class so used to wining and dining with lobbyists and being fed their views by the neo-cons became so out of touch with reality and life in America, which is why Palin is so refreshing, and she raises the hope of having someone in the executive office who is like you and I and not a human caricature, controlled by neo-con whackos and corporate crooks.

From Time Magazine last month:

It’s not easy to make the infamous Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential campaign seem benign. But suggesting that Barack Obama is the Antichrist might just do it…

As the ad begins, the words “It should be known that in 2008 the world shall be blessed. They will call him The One” flash across the screen. The Antichrist of the Left Behind books is a charismatic young political leader named Nicolae Carpathia who founds the One World religion (slogan: “We Are God") and promises to heal the world after a time of deep division. One of several Obama clips in the ad features the Senator saying, “A nation healed, a world repaired. We are the ones that we’ve been waiting for."…

And remember the “terrorist fist bump” from Fox News? Sure… Obama’s been treated with sugar-dipped care by the press and McCain campaign. Riiiight. And I’m Gary Hart...

Like it or not, we live in a tabloid world… so get over it! Internet trolls and blog cranks - as well as birdcage-guano-liners everywhere - have made hash of Palin for their own tawdry, unimportant reasons. But that chunk of the electorate concerned that this country not crap out is more troubled by her apparent lack of historical and political reference. On vital national issues, she has all the engagement of a boiled chickpea.

Well, yeah, they hate her because she unified the base, but they mostly hate her for the reason she was able to unify the base. Namely, she is blue collar, white, religious, has lots of kids, knows how to use a gun, hunts, etc. etc. She’s basically a nexus of everything that the left hates. Conservatives generally try to ignore the things that they hate, but the left feels the need to proselytize and change things to their liking. That is why the attacks are so voracious.

It’s not over yet.  A suit has been filed to insist that Obama prove that was indeed born in American and does not have dual
or foreign citizenship.

I’ve been following it at:
http://obamacrimes.com/

Some people may consider Phil Berg to be “out there.” But, Obama should be requied to prove that he is indeed a natural-born citizen. The birth certificate on Obama’s website has a smudged certificate
number; among other inconsistancies.

Obama was in Hawaii a few weeks ago.  (This issue has been on the table for months.) Don’t you think that it would have been easy for him to get a certified COLB from the state records division; if indeed that one exists?

The British politician Biden is said to have plagiarized was Neil Kinnock, otherwise known as “the Welsh windbag”.  Quite appropriate, really ...

I can undersand Uribe’s position, but how can he possibly defend the indefensible? That’s nice that ‘everyone’ appears stacked against her, but....they should. Even conservatives should. The conservatives have always demanded the best for thier country, and with Palin, it’s a slap in the face for anyone who has ever read Russell Kirk, Buchanan, Friedman, ad infinitum.

Reagan said once that it wasn’t he who left the Democrats, but that the Democrats have left him.

I think I share a similar sentiment with most of the people on here. I did not leave the Republican party, it is the Republican Party that left me.

There’s a new article for Jack Hunter to write up on that one sentence alone.

Uribe seems to point out that all of the people against her makes her legitimate and a decent pick. He’s dead wrong in his logic, which is not suprising the way the anti-intellectual Republican crowd has been trending. Sean Hannity is just fine where he is on Fox News. We dont’ need a copy of him sitting in the building next to the White House.

She stated in a voce presidential debate that she LOVES ISRAEL! We are finished as a nation. Maybe we are attacking the wrong nations?

I have no idea what “main street media” Francisco watches, but it can’t be any in the United States. She’s been treated with kid gloves, and Obama has been subjected to minute scrutiny. What is he talking about?

I can only note that when people get partisan, they tend to lose their minds. Following an ideology means outsourcing your thinking, and letting someone else come up with all your ideas.

Esmeralda Pearl:
You say, “The birth certificate on Obama’s website has a smudged certificate
number; among other inconsistancies.”
So? If the number was legible, about 1.5 million conspiracy nuts would be sending for copies to see if it was genuine, and swamping the system which provides them. There are often good reasons for things and often those reasons are NOT a conspiracy or something to hide. Now, John McCain’s father was an admiral and therefore often posted overseas. Why don’t we demand to see HIS birth certificate to see if he was born on some foreign base? I think the Federal Election Commission takes care of such verifications, so your concern and suspicion is misplaced.

Jack Rich: You say, “Palin is so refreshing, and she raises the hope of having someone in the executive office who is like you and I and not a human caricature, controlled by neo-con whackos and corporate crooks.
“
Precisely. There are two problems with the American electorate: (1) They believe every lie they are told and every pose that is struck. Witness Mitt Romney, who owns a good chunk of Marriott Corporation and lives in a $10-million house in Potomac, Maryland, denigrating the “Eastern Liberal Elites” at the Convention. Come again? Same for McCain, a man who does not know how many houses he owns and thinks $5 million a year is a middle-class income. The audiences swallow these bromides hook, line and sinker. Millionare George Bush only has to put on a blue shirt anmd roll up the sleeves and the electorate thinks this scion of privilege is a good old boy like Li’l Abner. (2) They want to be led by people they can feel comfortable with, instead of people who are competent. Can you see Aw-Shucks Palin dealing with the likes of Vladimir Putin? Or Hugo Chavez? Those people would eat her for breakfast. Winks and smug smiles and Alaskan natural gas will not go far in the harsh playground of world politics.

Chris, I don’t disagree with you, but don’t you think it’s time we start ignoring the likes of Putin and Chavez?

Not that Palin is the one to do it, but I’ve always repeated something I read over on Rockwell’s site (Lew, not George Lincoln): “replace the State Department with a fax machine”.

Patrick,
It sounds like a nice option, but the fact is, Chavez has oil and our corporatocracy ~ kleptocracy wants it, and Putin has again, more oil than even Saudi Arabia. The rulers of this nation would never find it possible to ignore such dazzling prospects for personal enrichment.

The sad thing is that while we try to steal oil at the point of a gun, under the pretext of bringing democracy to nations that have existed for literally thousands of years before this one, the Chinese and the Indians go about trying to simply buy it, with far more success. Given that there’s not enough to go around, the future does not look good for us.

When you are hungry, or even starving, it is not possible to ignore the guy with a larder full of food.
Regards,
Chris.

I find that several of these comments, in their pursuit of truth, forget that Mrs. Palin is still a lady, and a very dutiful one at that.  Her judgment is more important than performance, and thankfully the Constitution more than provides for prudent, deliberative politics.  If Palin is the VP pick against the deplorable Obama machine, then all of your Burkean swords had best be leaping from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatens her with insult.  To those who vote neither as a “protest,” you are idiots (in the Latin sense of the word).

Yes, I am glad to be an “idiot” in the classical sense.  And yes, I will vote Baldwin/Castle.  And yes, that will throw votes in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia to Obama/Biden allowing them to garner those electoral votes.  I prefer rational Fabian socialists whom rational Fabian conservatives can fight a loosing war against, than a maverick with a hair trigger temper who will further embroil us in wars of the military rather than political kind!

“I think this article might have been more pertinent a month ago. “

also, what “virulent attacks” are people talking about?  I haven’t seen any attack on sarah palin, certainly not one that wuold qualify as vehement.

I would like to point the attention of esteemed participants of the discussion to the book by Amy Chua: “World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability”. She herself is a Professor of Yale University; she is Filipino-American of Chinese ethnicity. In that book she studies most societies we have ever known and know now. She observes the phenomenon of “market dominant minority”, usually (but not always) of different ethnicity then the majority of population. As the title of the book says, sudden installment of Democracy and Free Markets brings up even stronger dominance of the said minority and this Breeds Ethnic Hatred of the ethnically different majority.
We can express our indignation about the phenomenon itself, and I am personally very unhappy about it. But just like being unhappy about bad weather does not make it go away, we can not whish away this phenomenon and resulting nationalism. Venezuelan Chavez is an enemy of the USA and I, for the sake of the USA, do not wish him any success. But he is Amerindian, dealing with whites, who are the market-dominant minority there. So we should better understand, what drives the supporters of our enemy, instead of just vilifying him. Respectfully, Florida resident.

John Derbyshire (not me) writes:
Sam Harris’s attack on Sarah Palin in the September 20 issue of Newsweek. Sam objects to Sarah’s religious views of course, but it was this other point that got my attention:

“The next administration must immediately confront issues like nuclear proliferation, ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and covert wars elsewhere), global climate change, a convulsing economy, Russian belligerence, the rise of China, emerging epidemics, Islamism on a hundred fronts, a defunct United Nations, the deterioration of American schools, failures of energy, infrastructure and Internet security … the list is long, and Sarah Palin does not seem competent even to rank these items in order of importance, much less address any one of them.”

That is elitism run amok. Who on earth has the expertise to cope knowledgeably with all those issues? Even to reach Sam’s standard, you could put together a roomful of the smartest people in the U.S.A., and I doubt they’d agree on an importance ranking.
We’re not electing a philosopher-king, we’re electing an administrator, someone with good common sense and sound judgment. We’ve tried Wonder Boys in the presidency, and they didn’t work out too well. Herbert Hoover, anybody? […….] Or how about Jimmy Carter, an exceptionally clever, capable, and accomplished man? On the other side there is Harry Truman, who was scoffed at in much the same terms Harris uses against Palin.

esmerelda,

Kristol couldn’y get in line fast enough to kiss Sarah’s folksy ass, what makes you
think he is against her??? Who do you think has been coaching her but the neocons?

Francisco,

Has it ever occurred to you that some of us conservatives are disgusted by these
warmonger evangelistic-zealot neocon hypocrites that Palin is and that she represents?
After having irresponsible sex herself as a single girl, she does it a second time as
a pre-menopause patriot, then has a daughter that follows in her footsteps. Are we seeing
a trend here? Oh these were just accidents huh? Well like my driver’s ed teacher
in high school used to say, accidents don’t just happen, they are caused! And I don’t
see any repentace here either. Just arrogance.

More: the white sisterhood has rallied behind Palin. Denied their heroine Hillary by the Windy City community organizer, the McCain ticket, with Palin in tow, shows a 20-point upswing among white female voters, now outdistancing Obama by double digits.

Is this some secret poll you commissioned with Fox news? Or is this something you dream about (like the rest of the Palin dreamers in Takimag are, who seem to be completely divorced from any kind of reality).

I don’t even want to get started on the rest of the article. I suppose one should go to Daniel Larison’s blog at the American Conservative Magazine for any kind of rational discussion on the Palin phenomenon. Of course, you can always visit Takimag if you need some humor from the writings of dreamers and deluders living in an alternative universe.....

Have to agree with both Lester and RK. The Sarah upswing lasted a grand total of two weeks then once she did her unrehearsed interviews she helped tank any momentum McCain got from her. The VP debate helped a bit with damage control, but now it is all up to McCain and his debate performances. Obama is starting to take the lead in some of the key battleground states and unless he screws up in the debates, I say this one is toast for McCain. I guess it doesn’t matter though, as I am voting for Chuck Baldwin!!!!!!!

Bob said what I was going to say, but in a much more colorful manner.

Esmerelda, I saw Bill Kristol prasing Palin on Fox News Sunday months before anybody had ever heard of her.

She’s a neocon, through and through. The vetting process is such that to even reach this position she can be nothing else.