Is this why the Democrats are so scared of Sarah Palin?
FROM DICK MORRIS:
For two weeks, Democrats and their media allies have leveled scorching fire at Sarah Palin. It’s not having much effect, but they keep at it anyway.
The latest Fox News poll shows Palin with a 54-27 favorable/unfavorable ratio, which compares well with Barack Obama’s 57-36, John McCain’s 60-33 and Joe Biden’s 51-29. (Of the four, she’s the most popular).
Why do Democrats feel so threatened? They’ve even stopped attacking McCain and President Bush to launch a vicious and sexist barrage at her that would normally make a feminist angry and a Democrat blush.
Basically, it’s this: John McCain only endangers Democratic chances of victory this November, but Sarah Palin is an existential threat to the Democratic Party.
She threatens a core element of the party’s base – women.
When an African-American like Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell or Condi Rice rises to prominence as a Republican, he or she endangers the Democratic coalition. So would a Republican labor leader.
And so, above all, does the woman Republican running for vice president.
Democrats can’t stomach seeing the feminist movement’s impetus for greater female political participation and empowerment “hijacked” by a pro-life woman who espouses traditional values. They must obliterate her, lest her popularity eat away at their party’s core.
So the Democrats are hysterical in their attacks on her. South Carolina’s Democratic Party chairwoman, Carol Fowler (wife of a national party chairman), said that the only qualification Palin had for vice president was that she hadn’t had an abortion. Tabloids are digging up dirt on Palin’s children. And liberal bloggers have suggested that Palin would neglect her children if she were elected (while the Democratic candidate has young children at home, too).
That liberals would resort to such blatant sexism shows their desperation.
But the Fox News poll of Sept. 8-9 indicates a deeper reality of Palin’s popularity. On the question of which of the four candidates best understands what day-to-day life is like in America, Palin finished first, with 33 percent. (Obama drew 32 percent, McCain 17 percent and Biden 10 percent.)
She’s not popular because she’s a radical feminist or pro-choice advocate. It’s because she understands what it’s like to be a woman in 21st century America.
She’s never ascended to the elite, so she doesn’t need to stoop to conquer as most well-heeled feminist leaders must. She lives far from the plastic pseudoreality where a fossilized ideology substitutes for human compassion and empathy. As such, she rises above the slogans of both the left and the right and proposes to bring to Washington a dose of reality – a taste of real life.
She may become the first woman in national office – yet the Democrats, feminists and liberals can’t control her, and that burns them up.
Elections come and go, but Palin is a far more fundamental threat to the Democratic Party. And that’s why they fear her so.
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Vote Palin
you like or believe
dick Morris?
you are so stupid
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I’m going to copy one of McCain’s speech writers and plagiarize from the internet: “TOO LONG”
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Very well put and right on the money. Thank you for explaining it so eloquently. A star for you
Vote Palin
I am afraid of anyone advocating continuing doing the same stupid things with our economy that have gotten us in the currect mess:
Highest debt ever
Highest defecit ever
Weakest dollar ever
Highest foreclosures ever
Most bank closures ever (since the Depression).
Highest CEO salaries ever (funny how they manage that).
You really want 4 or 8 more years of this same crap?
If so feel free to vote for her but you will pay the price, or your kids in the form of a collapsed country.
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The only reason anybody should be afraid of Palin is because she’s corrupt, inexperienced, and inefficient. She has no business being the republican VP nominee, and only got it because mccain was attempting to pander to Hilary’s supporters.
The reason we should be afraid is because if elected (though hopefully she and mccain will not win), she’ll be one small (very small) step away from being commander in chief, which is by no means a job she is ready to handle. And it’s doubtful she ever would be.
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Yup, I’m scared right now – NOT!
Keep polishing that turd, it’s shinning up real nice for you Forrest!
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I am a Democrat.
The reason why we “fear” Palin, is that voters may get sucked into the novelty of her, thus winning the election and flushing the entire country back into another Bush-Style term of destruction.
No Obama 2012
If you watched her interview with Charles Gibson you would see why we are worried.
And I don’t get why people are saying that her support of the brutal killing of Alaska’s wolves and bears will help her in the polls.
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Is that Faux news your quoting. Palin is a threat to the World because of her fundemantal right winged christian view-if your not christian your basically the devil. fThis is why she is soooo sccaarrry!
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Dick Morris?
I believe someone recently called him a “lying sack of sh*t”
This is the guy who was whining about how a man would never have to go through what Palin was going through,and last year,he started b*tching at Hillary Clinton. The media was actually psychoanalyzing 3x as worse as Palin,and he said that Hillary hides behind her “apron strings”. He’s the sexist
Democrats are not scared of Palin. I just don’t understand why you Republicans can’t understand that Palin caught everyone by surprise. No one ever expected her of all people to be the VP. It was a shock. Obviously,no one knows anything about her,and the media,left or right,will always go after the hot story. She has been the hot story since the day she was announced.
To think that women will just vote for McCain because of his VP’s gender is insulting. Women are not that stupid as to vote for someone based on gender. Most women vote based on issues just like most voters
Those pathetic liberal bloggers on disgusting sites like the Huffington Post and Daily Kos don’t speak for all liberals. I’m a liberal,and I have a strong dislike for both the sites. I rarely ever go on there. In fact,I’ve been on there literally 8 times.
I don’t like Palin because of her policies.I’m impressed that she’s had a lot of success while raising 5 kids and her newborn has Down syndrome. I really like her ability to juggle work and family. However,that doesn’t mean I will support her. She,in my opinion,is too conservative. She favors Creationism to be taught in school. She also said that the Iraq war was a task from God. That is not what I want in a VP and certainly never in a president
I don’t believe the absurd rumors about her that are spread around the internet,but the stuff that is true about her is not to my liking
That is my honest opinion
No Obama 2012
No. The only real threat is that she might end up with power.
And she shares many traits with the failed gw:
even more of a christian fundamentalist
fires (or tries to fire) anyone who doesn’t agree with her
sees the world in black and white
suffers from a misplaced sense of Certainty
anti choice to an extreme
anti science
anti environment
And she seems to have ignored the news about the country as a whole and the world for the last many years. I could have done a better job answering the interview questions without all the prepping.
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Being a woman in 21st century America doesn’t qualify you for the VP of America. I’m from Canada and I’m glad I live there with people like her with the chance to possibly be VP one day. She’s just a chess-piece for John McCain becoming president. She doesn’t offer any expertise, she offers the vote from women and from Pro-life advocates. She is not pro-life, she hunts and fishes. She is pro-human life only. I don’t understand why America always brings religion into politics. Secularism was created for a reason. It’s a scary thing. I’m afraid because America does have such a influence over a vast majority of the world, and to think that someone who thinks the earth is less than ten thousand years old has the amount of power America has is scary.
Vote Palin
The attached pretty much explains it.
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Morris knows of what he speaks on this as it relates to sexism in politics. She has made it easy for many women that may have at one time been Democrat because of women’s issues to switch. It is a “put your money where your mouth is” move on the Republicans part. One thing is for certain; the party lines are being redrawn.