I do not consider myself a Palin supportner. Nor do I consider myself a Palin detractor. I find her interesting and worth watching. At this moment in time, she is the only conservative politician who is a genuine rock star. Add to this the fact that her autobiography sold more copies in a month than most politicians sell in a decade, and you have the makings of a bright future on the American political scene.
Perhapse more than anything, I find her detractors facsinatingly horrible; they’re just so hateful. There has to be something more to it than just disagreeing with her policies. I believe it is actual hatred. She represents something to the far left that enrages them: she is a succesful, prominant, conservative woman. This equation confuses and frightens them. They come up with the craziest nonsense to take her on. I remember, back during the campaign, Alan Colmes questioned whether she took proper care of her baby while it was still in the womb. It’s hard to get much lower than that.
Even her more moderate detractors scrape the bottom of the barrel. I rarely bring up Palin in conversation. Usually, somebody just wants to bash her, so they start the topic. Whenever the subject of Sarah Palin is raised, someone in the room always spouts some crap like “She’s a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetard!” To that, my response is: “Do you have any valid criticisms to make, or are you just going to stick with the mindless personal attacks? What’s that? Nothing else? Then you have nothing of value to add to the conversation. Stop talking.” It seems to be common knowledge that McCain lost because of Palin. Never mind that, after he nominated her, his polls soared for several weeks. Never mind that McCain had great difficulty endearing himself to the conservative base of the Republican party and Palin actually started to repair that issue. No, she wrecked his campaign. This nonsense really gets on my nerves. Once, I told somebody that her autobiography was #1 on the Amazon Book List, to which he actually replied: “She just got all her crazy fans to buy it. It’s not hard to be #1 on Amazon.” You can’t make this *edited* up.
What these people don’t seem to understand, is that every time they detract from her, she winds up stronger than before.