and that’s a good thing. When she came on the scene in 2008, the far left liberals were absolutely giddy with excitement, because she is the physical embodyment of everything that they detest about America and the 80% of Americans who don’t agree with them. As per Saul Alinsky’s 13th Rule for Radicals, they have picked her as their primary target, personalized the attacks against her, and proceeded to polarize her.
But they hate her so passionately because they fear her, as bullies everywhere hate and fear anyone who stands up to them. Instead of retreating in the face of their attacks, she rhetorically reloads, and lets them have it with both barrels. In their world, polarizing a target is supposed to destroy that target, not strengthen it.
The definition of polarize in a social context is: “cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions” or “become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation”. Synonyms include: disunite, separate, part, divide.
Liberals would have you believe that this is the effect that Sarah Palin has on the Republican Party, and to some extent this is true. She has shown a propensity for separating the wheat from the chaff within the GOP.
But more importantly, she has the ability to separate a lot of rank-and-file Democrats from the liberal loons that have taken over their party. Who do those Democrats who live in flyover country have more in common with, Sarah Palin or Nancy Pelosi? Illegal immigration? Advantage Palin. Islamization? Advantage Palin. Abortion? Advantage Palin. 2nd Amendment and Christianity? Palin hands down.
The far left knows this, and that’s why they are desperate to silence her. But Saul Alinsky should have added one more rule. #14 should have said “Shut up while you’re ahead, and don’t overplay your hand.” It might have saved some of them from making complete asses of themselves in the wake of the Tucson shootings. Or not. Since some of them continued to squeal like a bunch of stuck hogs about political rhetoric, even in the face of polls showing that the majority of Americans knew they were full of hooey, and then trying to force a debate about gun control.
We can have a debate about any issue that they choose, but to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin and the American people will win, and the liberal left will lose. The more polarized we become, the more isolated they will be. And when the Sit Down and Shut Up shoe is on the other foot, they are going to rue the day that they decided to take on Sarah Palin.
PD, that is spot on. The left just does not seem to understand that the more they try to destroy Sarah, the stronger she becomes. And they certainly don’t know what to make of someone who does not retreat in the face of adversity, especially when she continues on with a smile on her face and determination in her will.
Excellent piece!
Excellent as always PD.
The left will never understand Sarah because she is the POLAR opposite of what they are. She’s happy; they’re miserable. She’s proud of her country; they hate it. She’s strong; they’re weak. She has placed her faith and trust in a sovereign Lord who never fails or disappoints…..they look to big gubmint for happiness and, well, ya know…..
She could walk away from all of this tomorrow and still have that beautiful smile, a loving family and a full, vibrant, productive life but chooses to stay in the fight because she knows what she believes in and is willing to fight for what she holds dear. The left will never forgive her for that.
“She has shown a propensity for separating the wheat from the chaff within the GOP.” — she has become the litmus test for determining who is a RINO and who is not as to is where they stand with Palin.
I saw a comment by Mitt Romney saying she would make a great President. At least he’s smart enough to know who not to make mad.
They also hate Palin because of her looks. If she looked like Steven Tyler and was pro-abortion they’d love her.
You might be right, Steve. But I think a lot of their disdain comes from the elites considering her an upstart commoner.
Well said, P.D. !!
I believe they have rued the day since she left the Governors office. Had they left her alone, she would still be in Alaska tending to that States business.
Certainly, she would have still been involved in national politics, but nothing like she has been since she resigned.
But, as we know, the hyenas of the Left had already drawn Palin blood and were out for the kill, whether she had lost the ’08 election or not. They badgered her until she couldn’t do her job as Governor.
And they made her mad.
Then The Huntress came to the lower 48 to draw some blood of her own. The Midterms were a nice little massacre, but that was just the beginning.
Sarah Palin will defeat the Left, the RINO’s AND the media.
And We The People will help her do just that.
Amen Bruce. When they went after her, they ended up holding a tiger by the tail, and they don’t know how to let it go. But when she starts campaigning, and talking directly to the American people, she’s gonna take ‘em all down.
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