80 Comments

1. Michael:

Just think what we’re in for when John McCain wins the White House, then, when Sarah Palin wins the Oval Office herself.

This kind of crud from the Left will never stop. These people truly are mentally diseased. Makes me, for a moment, wish the internet had never been invented so that such ugly people could just keep their sickness to themselves and their support groups.

Sep 11, 2008 - 8:52 am 2. ShermanStreet:

I think there are two reasons that the MSM and the left is apoplectic about Sarah Palin:

Her selection was a well-kept secret from the MSM and they do not like not getting a scoop on stories.

She is a Republican, plain and simple.

Had seen been Obama’s choice for VP, the left and MSM would extolling her virtues as a way to appeal to blue collar voters, more conservative thinking Independent voters and disenchanted Republicans.

Sep 11, 2008 - 8:54 am 3. Harland:

I hang around a local forum that has a political section. Over the past 2 weeks I never have seen the derangement on the left. Any piece of garbage about Palin will be posted as a separate thread. It is hilarious, funny and sickening all at the same time.

Sep 11, 2008 - 8:55 am 4. Jeff:

Modern anti-male liberal feminists have been on the edge of this insanity their entire lives due to the twisted teachings they cling to about male oppression and female power. The Palin selection has finally pushed their warped world view out into the light of day and it is shocking to see, but don’t kid yourself, it has always been there. Modern feminism is based on feel good lies about the real world that could never be challenged because of the PC culture we live in. All of its internal contradictions and falsehoods are bubbling to the surface in an eruption of hatred. These women are terrified that their world view has been a sham all these years and will fight to the death to preserve it rather than face the fact that their feminist leaders have been nothing more than power hungry con artists intent on person power.

Sep 11, 2008 - 9:06 am 5. Joe:

Andrew Sullivan said this yesterday:

On core moral issues, where this man knew what the right thing was, and had to pick between good and evil, he chose evil. When he knew that George W. Bush’s war in Iraq was a fiasco and catastrophe, and before Donald Rumsfeld quit, McCain endorsed George W. Bush against his fellow Vietnam vet, John Kerry in 2004. By that decision, McCain lost any credibility that he can ever put country first. He put party first and his own career first ahead of what he knew was best for the country.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/mccains-integri.html

Think about that.

Everyone who chose Bush over Kerry is evil.

Andrew Sullivan is mad. Litterally. This is Palin Derangement Syndrome (actually “Fear of Obama Losing” Syndrome) out of control.

Sep 11, 2008 - 9:07 am 6. Jim Clark:

The most astonishing, horrifying, sickening, thing in Ms. Wilson’s piece full of bile and smirking conceit was her passing mention of her goddaughters. First, I suppose this means that she has better things to do than be bothered with motherhood, for which we can be grateful. But what kind of lower case godmother is she? Who would choose such a woman to provide spiritual and religious guidance to their daughter? Just what does being a Godmaother mean to her? Just when language has been debased to depths beyond digging, down it goes another level. Godmother? Is she serious?

Sep 11, 2008 - 9:13 am 7. Happytalk:

“Fear of Obama Losing”—FOOL
Works for me

Sep 11, 2008 - 9:15 am 8. littlebeartoe:

I thought Obama was gonna win until the left acquired Palin Derangement Syndrome. I’ve never seen it so bad– not even Reagan or George W. inspired such irrational hatred.

Obama seems to want to avoid the worst of it, but I think his crazy supporters are going to cost him the election. He might be able to diffuse it by immediately calling a press conference and telling the worst lefty pundits (like Cintra Wilson) bluntly to shut up. But I doubt he’ll do that.

Sep 11, 2008 - 9:24 am 9. Jim Treacher:

I always enjoyed her post-Oscar screeds. Apparently she has more in common with the celebrities she excoriates than she’d like to admit.

Sep 11, 2008 - 9:27 am 10. william:

isn’t it nice though, that Sarah makes Obama look like the girl that he is?

Sep 11, 2008 - 9:32 am 11. srlucado:

These are some really sick people. Sick in their souls.

I was prepared to be outraged by Wilson’s comments, but instead I just feel pity. Pity that someone who once might have been intelligent is now reduced to foaming at the mouth, writing deliriously hateful fantasies.

It’s not provocative, it’s just pathetic, like Glenn Close in the closing scenes of “Dangerous Liaisons”. Fade to black.

Scott

Sep 11, 2008 - 9:34 am 12. Hucbald:

I prefer the term, Sarah Psychosis, because this is much worse than BDS.

My “favorite” meme from the feminotards is that Palin isn’t actually a woman. Several of them have said things to that effect. It’s insanity at its most hilarious.

Sep 11, 2008 - 9:34 am 13. Charlie (Colorado):

Pver on Just One Minute, we more or less converged on Palin Madness Syndrome.

Sep 11, 2008 - 9:49 am 14. A.W.:

I think this might qualify as the most deranged version.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/wendy_doniger/2008/09/all_beliefs_welcome_unless_the.html

And the line in the piece for the ages:

“[Palin's] greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”

That’s right, Palin is not a woman. The commenters are having a great deal of fun on this, too. More than a few people have looked at the author’s picture and wondered whether she was a woman herself. Ouch. I read alot of them, and didn’t see a single positive comment.

Sep 11, 2008 - 10:04 am 15. Francis Beckwith:

Can you imagine how much Cintra hates herself? To allow such thoughts to pass through one’s mind and germinate in one’s soul reveals an unimaginable level of self-hatred. Where do these people come from, and who is responsible for their existence?

Sep 11, 2008 - 10:05 am 16. Randy R:

The sudden appearance out of nowhere of a threat to The One’s ascendance to the throne in the form of someone they consider the mayor of Mayberry-On-The-Tundra has effectively short-circuited the normal filters that the left uses to sanitize their true beliefs for consumption by the masses. What we’re seeing now are those pure, unadultered beliefs laid bare.

Sarah Palin’s emergence onto the national stage has turned over a rock and allowed everyone to see what’s crawling around underneath.

Sep 11, 2008 - 10:09 am 17. Triton'sPolarTiger:

Holy cow.

Is she always that extreme? How long before she and others like her whip their their followers into such an insane, frothing frenzy that someone takes it upon him- or herself to attempt an act of violence against McCain or Palin?

Holy. Cow.

Sep 11, 2008 - 10:10 am 18. VRWC:

This is just like Clarence Thomas and it is probably going to get that ugly.

Not only do liberals feel entitled to every black and female vote, they also feel entitled to tell us what those demographic groups must think in order to be considered “authentic.”

Much like a 3 year old sent for a time out, these feelings of entitlement result in furious tantrums when confronted with authentic black and female conservatives who don’t buy into the liberal playbook.

Sep 11, 2008 - 10:14 am 19. Aureliano:

Makes me, for a moment, wish the internet had never been invented so that such ugly people could just keep their sickness to themselves and their support groups.

Often, we think of the Internet as a Godsend because it helps non-liberals counter the manipulation and misinformation propagated in the MSM and the classroom.

Sometimes I wonder if the chief benefit is that is allows postmodern liberals to express what they REALLY are — bigoted narcissists battling hobgoblins of their own mind.

Anybody who doesn’t understand that ‘progressive’ has become synonymous with ‘reactionary bigot’ hasn’t been paying attention ….

Sep 11, 2008 - 10:35 am 20. gaetano catelli:

this past Sunday’s inside-the-beltway tv-talking-heads were all shouting at one another simultaneously (much more so than usual). apparently the Palin candidacy has them not knowing whether to run, defecate, or go blind.

Sep 11, 2008 - 10:39 am 21. Chris:

I think there are two reasons that the MSM and the left is apoplectic about Sarah Palin:

Her selection was a well-kept secret from the MSM and they do not like not getting a scoop on stories.

This is ludicrous. You’re speaking of “the MSM” as if it’s some sort of monolithic, single-headed beast. But moreover:

By the VERY DEFINITION OF THE TERM, journalists “get scooped” all the time. When one outlet exclusively breaks news, that means every other outlet has been scooped. This happens day in and day out, countless times, on every imaginable beat. By your reckoning, the media would thus be brimming over with journalists constantly being “apopletic” about virtually everything under the sun.

Yes, there has been a lot of negativity in the news media about Palin. There are plenty of reasons to hypothesize about. The idea that the media is mad because it got “scooped” is not one of them. And talking about “the MSM” as if it’s some unitary entity is just goofy to begin with.

Sep 11, 2008 - 10:49 am 22. adlibn55:

I have found this to be true always:

When liberals accuse a conservative of something they are actually projecting their own warped feelings. In accusing Sarah Palin of not being a true “woman”, they are actually reflecting their own feelings about themselves. There is nothing more ant-woman than a radical feminist.They secretly wish they were men.

Sep 11, 2008 - 10:50 am 23. Ron Kean:

Ms Wilson needs some help.

Sep 11, 2008 - 11:04 am 24. Rob:

WRT to the effect on politics of the internet; it wasn’t intuitive to me, but in retrospect it makes sense that the internet would at once both be numerically dominated by the left and yet benefit the right. After all, the left is culturally dominant and consequently it has among its adherents most of the “chattering classes,” and most of the dunderheads who simply follow along. The right has only people who don’t buy into the dominant leftism. It requires a little thought to not simply absorb the attitudes and prejudices of those you see on TV or read in the newspapers. So the result of the internet is that 1) there is a means of communicating different (right-leaning) ideas, and 2) there is no way to stop the idiots from doing harm to their own side. Most idiots are naturally of the dominant, left-leaning, culture, and harm they do, again and again.

Sep 11, 2008 - 11:10 am 25. CornFedBeauty:

In the end, I come away from the Salon quote quite amused.

Karl Rove has been officially deified. He no longer walks among us humans. I mean, think about it. He’s got to have passed Jesus’s quotient of miracles by now, probably by a goodly amount.

As Rove has said, “I’m a myth.” He’s not Rove anymore. He belongs to the ages now.

Sep 11, 2008 - 11:20 am 26. Jim,MtnViewCA,USA:

Could it be drugs? Many of us stopped using in the 70s, 80s, 90s. Maybe the left has continued and either the newer drugs are stronger or the long duration of usage has had an effect.

Sep 11, 2008 - 11:52 am 27. Postliberal:

Maybe someone should make a collection and publish it. Our fellow citizens are having a stoning. It would do the country good to shine a light on them and make them face a mirror.

The Salon website ran an article soliciting questions Charles Gibson should ask Sarah Palin. I posted this suggestion: “Governor Palin, are you now, or have you ever been, a witch?”

Sep 11, 2008 - 11:54 am 28. oblomov:

I’m not the first to comment on this, by why do people on the left need to resort to obscenity to express themselves on even the most mundane topics? Is it that they are angrier people? Are they morbidly obsessed with sex (with the unattainable partners) and excrement? Are their imaginations and vocabularies limited enough that scatology must stand in for adjectives? Or is leftism, like habitual crudeness, just a marker of permanent adolescence?

Sep 11, 2008 - 11:58 am 29. Ron J:

A new diagnosis for the DSM-V: Sarah Psychosis: the inability of the left to maintain mental stability in the presence of a strong but feminine woman who is joyful, always seems to be happy, and is content in her own skin. Symptoms include seeing things that aren’t there (an Obama win for example) and hearing voices (Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!)

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:00 pm 30. Andrew Garland:

Satire: The Top Ten Stories about Governor Palin

1. Diplomat asked Palin to fetch coffee. “How would I know?” he said.
2. Call to Wassila library interrupted operations. “Palin talked for half an hour”, says librarian.
3. Palin’s children may not be citizens due to technicalities of Alaska Purchase.
4. Palin campaign operative asks permission for gun rack over VP Seal.
5. Sarah Palin did not inspire character Sarah Conner in the movie “The Terminator”. “She inspired the Terminator character”, reports screenwriter.
6. Secret sources report “Al-Qaeda will never surrender to a woman, may it please Allah”.
7. Palin was not vetted about future pregnancy. Federal law prevented asking.
8. Palin denies rumors of “virgin birth”, despite religious leanings.
9. “Killing moose is overflow hostility”, says psychiatrist.
10. When Bridge to Nowhere cancelled, 35 homeless denied shelter beneath.

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:03 pm 31. Anthony:

The thing is that at one time, women like Pallin were not that unique. There is a reason that the first states to grant female sufferage were the frontier states. The women there shared the same hardships as the men, while giving birth. They were just as tough as the men, maybe even tougher.

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:05 pm 32. jblog:

Regarding the whole “sexy librarian” thing, she does sort of have that kind of WKRP-Bailey Quarters thing going on, doesn’t she?

That is, if Bailey could kill, skin, and cook a moose.

The only thing can explain the hateful filth some liberals are spewing about her — remarks that would appall them if they heard them uttered about one of their own — is full-on panic.

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:09 pm 33. sickofit:

The blogosphere have gone crazy but there are many of us liberals who dislike the hysteria and would rather discuss the issues. I, for one, would like all this to stop so that we can have a decent conversation about the future of our country and the best person to lead it it. As long as all citizens are informed, they have every right to vote for their own candidate of choice.

Conversely, our vote is wasted if we vote for or against somebody because of their gender, party affiliation, skin color and so on. We should vote for the next best POTUS based on our assessment of how well he or she would lead the country and ALL its citizens.

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:10 pm 34. runbei:

Who was it that did a study some years ago of the level of language in the right and left, measured by swear-word count? At any rate, the left won, no contest. Gandhi got it right: behave well, and people will be able to compare and judge for themselves. The worst thing McCain/Palin fans could do would be to get in the pit.

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:18 pm 35. stephen:

Fear of Obama Losing Syndrome – FOOLS! HA, quite funny

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:19 pm 36. jetski:

Roger,

That line “She’s not just pro-life, she’s anti-life.” Man, I study loony lefty ravings pretty closely, but I cannot for the life of me figure that one out.

If you’re way, way way for life, you must somehow circle all the way around lefty logic to become their antiChrist.

Or something.

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:25 pm 37. jetski:

Sherman:

There are three reasons they hate her. You wrote:

1) They were scooped (which really, means they weren’t consulted aforehand.)
2) She’s republican

But there’s a third reason that lefty types hate her … and that is that she’s beautiful and smart and successful, but mostly beautiful.

And they hate beautiful women, because beautiful women have been taking the men they deserve their whole lives. There’s one thing in common among shrill Democrat feministas and that is that they are all just a bit homely and overweight.

They can’t stand that Sarah Palin is this awesomely beautiful woman who is able to do what they can’t because they sit around eating their hatred.

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:28 pm 38. Brian J. Dunn:

I don’t understand how these rabid Lefties can even still be here in America to write this stuff. Didn’t they promise to leave America for more civilized cultures in 2004? And before that in 2000?

Maybe this year, at long last!

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:29 pm 39. ZEITGEIST:

[...] Plus, Is Sarah Palin dangerous to your mental health? [...]

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:32 pm 40. twocanpete:

Loved the pig!

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:33 pm 41. Fat Man:

“We should vote for the next best POTUS based on our assessment of how well he or she would lead the country and ALL its citizens.”

Agreed, Socialized Medicine and surrendering to Iran are the wrong things to do. Winning in Iraq, and drilling in Alaska are the right things. Vote for McCain/Palin.

Now, about the deranged behavior of the left?

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:36 pm 42. Carol:

adlibn55 says: “I have found this to be true always: When liberals accuse a conservative of something they are actually projecting their own warped feelings.”

You are exactly right, and I use that same rule, too. It’s almost a game, except it isn’t funny. The first rule/assumption about any and all those who do not share their world view: zombied, fascist followers of an orthodox code, intolerant of alternative perspectives and incapable of seeing reality in a fresh way. Mirror mirror!

Sep 11, 2008 - 12:40 pm 43. AlanC:

My wife won’t even talk about any of this. Why?

Wifea: “I get to deal with more than enough of that kind of behavior every day.”

Oh, did I forget to mention she teaches Kindergarten?

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:03 pm 44. John:

If the Obama campaign had any brains, they’d have a Sista Souljah moment and tell their supporters in the media and on the internet to stfu and leave Palin alone.

Prediction: Obama will announce Hillary Clinton to be his Secretay of State within the next two weeks. He has to stem the bleeding with the female vote – but not so soon as to seem desperate after the Palin nomination, the two cannot appear to be linked.

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:06 pm 45. Andrew:

I thought they were deranged when they kept tearing Bush and funny Democrat bumper stickers off my car. Finally had to get the police involved in that one. But its with fear and trembling that I put McCain on the bumper let alone Palin let alone anything else that could be considered derogatory of B.O. – like the one I made up which says – “No, thanks I already have a Messiah.” Yes, nothing like living in the P.R.C. – people’s republic of Charlottesville.

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:08 pm 46. Is Sarah Palin dangerous to your mental health? — Rudy’s Corner:

[...] Roger Kimball has food for thought on the grotesque personal attacks made against Sarah Palin. I’m all for you nuts attacking her policy decisions, as that’s par for the course. Attacking her and her family make you look sick. [...]

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:10 pm 47. Les Hardie:

Strong confident men like strong confident women. That’s why I’m daft about Sarah.

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:20 pm 48. L.N. Smithee:

It should be noted that Salon is headquartered in downtown San Francisco, and Salon writers Cintra Wilson and Gary Kamiya (who earlier this week wrote of “dominatrix” Palin, complete with a cartoon of her wielding a whip and caressing a moose) are former dead-tree writers for the San Francisco dailies. These are precisely the types of people that Barack Obama was pandering to in his surreptitiously recorded “bitter clingers” comments about rural Pennsylvanians.

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:32 pm 49. megapotamus:

The Left hates Palin to the industry standard because she is a Republican. Par for the course. The real froth on the bile is for one reason: Trig. Palin’s demonstration that there IS an option other than abortion, even in the dread event of a genetic disorder shows what these mooks really mean by “choice”. And that option is… LIFE. Pretty simple, isn’t it? How many of these lib screechers, especially the female, are actually acting out from Post Abortion Stress Disorder? There have been over 40 million documented American abortions since Roe. How many of these women who would drive a stake through Palin’s heart are really raging at themselves for having betrayed their own child to the death? Not none. Not a few.

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:35 pm 50. L.N. Smithee:

Andrew wrote: But its with fear and trembling that I put McCain on the bumper let alone Palin let alone anything else that could be considered derogatory of B.O. – like the one I made up which says – “No, thanks I already have a Messiah.”

What’s driving me nuts is that after ridiculing the idea that Obama was a mere celebrity, elected Dems are actually embracing the “Jesus was a community organizer, Pilate was a Governor” line! Not bloggers, not pundits — actual members of the party sent to D.C. by voters are saying this out loud, and one on the House floor in front of C-SPAN cameras!

How often has the looney left suggested that Bush fans thought of him as guided by the hand of God? Now, they’re not objecting when some of their own suggest Obama might be … no, I’m not even going to say it.

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:41 pm 51. stace:

This isn’t quite as bad, but it’s an indicator of what the future holds for the psychiatric profession if Obama loses:

“A therapist I know — OK, since you dragged it out of me, my therapist — told me that I’d be astonished if I knew how many emergency calls she got the night that Sarah Palin gave her convention speech.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/post-palin-depression_b_125599.html

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:44 pm 52. Richard of Oregon:

If Sarah is dangerous to your mental health, it says a lot about you.

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:44 pm 53. ManM:

[i]I prefer the term, Sarah Psychosis, because this is much worse than BDS.[/i]

I thought the proper term was Palinsanity.

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:49 pm 54. ChrisA:

Actually, I’ve found Sarah Palin’s debut on the national scene to be quite good for my mental health. When considering the nation’s political landscape and prospects, I am much more cheerful and invigorated than I was just a few weeks ago. I’ve experienced a renewed interest in civic participation, having just today volunteered to be a poll watcher for my county Republican party and to assist the McCain campaign.

Sep 11, 2008 - 1:52 pm 55. penny:

Missed by the typically history challenged and hypocritical angry Democrats in their “inxperienced” Palin denounciations is that both Carter and Clinton came to the White House as governors with the same concerns about their experience.

The meltdown of the Democrat’s myth of gender and race equality as their virtue is fascinating to watch.

Sep 11, 2008 - 2:22 pm 56. Chris:

That line “She’s not just pro-life, she’s anti-life.” Man, I study loony lefty ravings pretty closely, but I cannot for the life of me figure that one out.

Man, I’m on the same side as you guys politically, but y’all can drive me nuts sometimes.

Why can’t you “figure out” that line? (Or, probably more accurately, why are you pretending that you can’t figure it out?) The writer is clearly saying: “Palin subscribes to a position that happens to go by the name ‘pro life,’ which is bad in my book. On top of that — and here I’m no longer talking about abortion — Palin does not represent how I think life should be lived: She suppresses human feelings, etc. etc.”

The writer is simply making a play on words. It’s not a clever play on words, and the substance of the sentiment is utterly despicable and atrocious. But it’s certainly not difficult to understand.

Sometimes I think a lot of you just take your eyes off the ball. Even simply thinking in terms of “the loony left” is taking your eyes off the ball. It creates a warped, distracting picture, and keeps ammunition from being properly directed — directed in a way that can most effectively refute arguments and advance our cause.

It’s like the commenter above confidently asserting that the left hates Palin “because beautiful women have been taking the men they deserve their whole lives.” That’s a misguided analysis, and it doesn’t get us anywhere in our fight. I mean, it’s so easy to refute: There are plenty of beautiful women who aren’t hated by the left. (For heaven’s sake, Hollywood is one huge counterexample unto itself.)

When you attribute false qualities or motives to our opponents — “she writes crazy stuff that doesn’t make sense,” “they hate beautiful women,” etc. — you’re just giving them the space to operate. You’re taking attention away from the REAL qualities and motives that need to be countered. If a blonde-haired thief walks up to you, and you start staring at his head and gushing about his purple hair, it’s a lot easier for him to seamlessly pick your pocket as he laughs quietly at your mistakenly distracted self.

Sep 11, 2008 - 2:51 pm 57. Rich:

re: jblog:

Regarding the whole “sexy librarian” thing, she does sort of have that kind of WKRP-Bailey Quarters thing going on, doesn’t she?

Actuallu, Bailey Quarters (Jan smithers in real like) was a total fox overshadowed by the Blonde whose name escapes me now. One show she took off he glasses and swung out her hair and every guy in the room melted

Sep 11, 2008 - 3:08 pm 58. Tcobb:

The current incarnation of the American left slipped off into never-never land some time ago. Their web of double standards has become so tangled that even they can’t navigate it anymore without being tripped up by their own inconsistencies.

Sep 11, 2008 - 3:13 pm 59. L.N. Smithee:

penny wrote: “Missed by the typically history challenged and hypocritical angry Democrats in their “inexperienced” Palin denounciations is that both Carter and Clinton came to the White House as governors with the same concerns about their experience.”

The Dems forfeited the “inexperience” issue not only in nominating Obama, but in Bill Clinton’s speech the third night of the DNCC. He equated questions about Obama’s experience as being the equivalent of Republicans’ questioning whether someone who ran Arkansas for SIX years was qualified to be President. Palin’s two years of Gubernatorial experience is one-third of Clinton’s six, but two is infinitely more than zero.

Sep 11, 2008 - 3:13 pm 60. Palin: “They hate her because she is not a victim” | The Anchoress:

[...] York Times and finds…what do you know…a LOAD of double standards. Roger Kimball has more thoughts Dirty Harry’s Place… pinged back with Why They Hate Her by TheAnchoress @ 3:29 pm. [...]

Sep 11, 2008 - 3:15 pm 61. Joe:

Apparently the buzz is Sarah Palin does just fine in her first Charlie Gibson interview except for one gaffe. By Charlie Gibson. Charlie Gibson quotes Gov. Palin’s words, but inaccurately, and the quote just happens to be from our first gay* president, Abraham Lincoln. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/273244.php
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/11/open-thread-palin-on-abc/

I assume tomorrow the comment from Andrew Sullivan will be Sarah Palin is a dangerous Christianist because she quoted a notoriously gay (but in the closet and self hating) anti-states right athiest hypocrite racist radical.

* According to Andrew Sullivan http://www.albertmohler.com/commentary_read.php?cdate=2005-02-17

Sep 11, 2008 - 3:44 pm 62. Tcobb:

L.N. Smithee
You are using math. Since mathematical analysis tends, again and again, to conflict with progressive thought, and progressive thought (by definition) cannot be wrong, it therefore follows that mathematics is inherently reactionary, and those whose employ it have diseased minds.

Repent L.N. Smithee. Repent. Its not too late. Big Brother loves you.

Sep 11, 2008 - 4:52 pm 63. Ed:

Obama needs to arrange Sister Cintra moment. However that would require a modicum of courage to resist the pressure from the left. Probably not gonna happen.

Sep 11, 2008 - 5:24 pm 64. kcom:

This topic wouldn’t be complete without a link to Canadian columnist Heather Mallick’s juvenile screed:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/05/f-vp-mallick.html

Sample quotes:

“No, she isn’t even female really. She’s a type, and she comes in male form too.”

Palin is obviously more woman than Heather will ever be.

“John Doyle, the cleverest critic in Canada, comes right out and calls Palin an Alaska hillbilly. Damn his eyes, I wish I’d had the wit to come up with it first. It’s safer than ‘white trash’ but I’ll pluck safety out of the nettle danger. Or something.”

Wit, yeah right.

“Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade’s woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression.”

That’s actually a better description of Nancy Pelosi.

“Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the ‘pramface’.”

Real classy.

Lots of commenters are just reaming her in the comments and questioning how the CBC would stoop to publish something so lacking in basic journalistic decency.

Sep 11, 2008 - 6:05 pm 65. Dawn:

It’s the left’s Rumpelstilzchen moment. Unable to accept defeat, anger is driving them insane.

Sep 11, 2008 - 8:24 pm 66. Allencic:

Look up the work “Palingenesis”. Yes, its a real word and its definition applies perfectly to what’s happened to the Republican Party.

Sep 11, 2008 - 8:48 pm 67. proud floridian:

Wow. What vitriol. Sure am glad I don’t have to wake up to that face every morning. Geez!

Sep 11, 2008 - 10:18 pm 68. Rob:

Front-page story in WashPo intentionally sliming Palin, claimng she said Iraq was responsible for 9/11 (Drudge has the link), picked up by the NYT and AP.

Sep 12, 2008 - 1:58 am 69. Dan Smith:

Wilson is an inmate addressing the asylum. What is more telling is the way many in the MSM have taken it upon themselves to be surrogate campaigners for Obama and put every statement by Palin under the microscope. Thus far, she has handled it well, e.g. the interview with Charlie Gibson. I think the strategy will produce so much backlash that they will give it up as Obama sinks lower in the polls. Then again, since insanity is repeating the same action hoping for a different result, maybe they won’t.

Sep 12, 2008 - 7:58 am 70. Bill:

Obviously, she’s dangerous to your mental health, Roger. I’ve been a fan of yours for years, and your blinkering over the Palin candidacy is a sad thing to see.

Sep 12, 2008 - 11:11 am 71. JMT:

Another aspect of major media fury over the surprise Palin candidacy is that they may very well have wasted much time in loading their oppo-research shotguns for Pawlenty or Romney or other possible candidates, and resent being disarmed and having to reload so late in the campaign.

And if Palin survives the current hysterical and hostile media onslaught as I fully expect her to, she’ll have proven herself a superior candidate to Obama, who’s been showered with media sponge-ball questions from the onset of the campaign.

Sep 12, 2008 - 11:59 am 72. cdbmausa:

Sarah Palin is Chief of Police Marge Gunderson from ‘Fargo’ come to life – the no nonsense, can-do, savvy woman

Sep 12, 2008 - 12:06 pm 73. John N. Frary:

Palinosis, n. (pl. palinoses) Any of several poorly differentiated disorders among Left-lurchers that involve demented social, political, and rhetorical behaviors. They are distinguished individually by special manifestations (as paralysis of the cognitive functions, frothing at the mouth, rotating eye-balls, hyperventilation, semantical seizures).

Sep 13, 2008 - 4:29 am 74. Lee Hamilton:

Treatment of Sarah Palin demonstrates the latent sexism of the media much more vividly than the case of Hillary Clinton. It’s actually astonishing. Even some of my favourite political bloggers are wholly consumed with the task of scurrilously discrediting Palin with the most tenuous insinuations and innuendo. You’re totally correct: her game-changing insertion into this campaign has induced a state of (temporary?) insanity.

I really appreciated Camille Paglia’s take on the Palin phenomenon in her most recent Salon.com column. What Palin’s critics don’t seem to realize is that their antics will backfire in a big way if they keep this up.

Sep 13, 2008 - 6:41 am 75. Right Wing Nation » Har!:

[...] of (Glenn Reynolds), just when you thought the liberals couldn’t come any more unglued, they do! And this mouthbreather is way beyond just unglued. It’s a big psychotic group hug, and more [...]

Sep 13, 2008 - 8:14 am 76. Nina:

Sure there’s been some hyperbolic language on the left, but the bottom line is that Palin is not qualified to be VP much less President. The Palin phenomenon is a case of the empress with no clothes, with many in denial and others so partisan that they don’t care so long as she promotes their ideology. I summit that the delusion is not primarily on the left with respect to Palin.

Sep 15, 2008 - 4:29 am 77. John N. Frary:

The bottom line is that the Democratic nominee has no qualifications to be president, which is what this campaign is finally about.

Rezko, Wright, Ayers—but I grow hyperbolic and had better stop right now.

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:51 am 78. purpleinflorida:

I understand the position of conservatives not liking the irrational backlash unleashed in the form of left-leaning tirades. I also understand the left’s fear of another lengthy flirtation with disaster in the mold of GW. As a rational, competent, fact-discerning and information seeking American, I don’t like either one and they both, in fact, repulse me. The dumbing down of America seems to have been accomplished, at least to some extent.

Sep 15, 2008 - 4:28 pm 79. purpleinflorida:

I understand the position of conservatives not liking the irrational backlash unleashed in the form of left-leaning tirades. I also understand the left’s fear of another lengthy flirtation with disaster in the mold of GW. As a rational, competent, fact-discerning and information seeking American, I don’t like either one and they both, in fact, repulse me. The dumbing down of America seems to have been accomplished, at least to some extent.

Never have the stakes been so high, nor have the standards for our representative democracy appeared to be so low. Of course, politics has been a bit slimy from the beginning, and most likely will forever remain so. To turn Obama into a messianic figure on one side, as well at the antithesis of ‘8 more years’ on the other side, thoroughly misses the point: there can be no sides. That is to say, the stakes are SO high this election cycle, the battling to find the best candidate is a necessary part of the process, to be sure; but cannot be THE focus.

Different times call for a different type of president. Were Obama a Republican, I would back him still. Not because he’s a he, or a biracial he, but because he has sense. The same sense that spoke to George Washington’s design to fulfill our country’s destiny and achieve an overall purpose as he filled his cabinet with the best men for the job, (Washington was enlightened but not quite in a position, socially speaking, to choose women.) regardless of party. I firmly believe that as a man of questionable principles and even murkier allegiances/ judgement, McCain is the worst choice either Republicans, Independents or Democrats could make. A former paria, and known turncoat, my party chose McCain as its best option. Get a clue, America, keep your party affiliation, but put your country and rational logic first. Both partys’ candidates lack executive (Oval) office experience.

At last count though, Obama-Biden have 40 years combined public service experience, compared to McCain-Palin’s 28, and have the right mind for the job. McCain has was amounts to a degree in War, Palin a degree in Journalism (War and spin, anyone?) Just go to http://www.votesmart.org/election_president.php and look up the other side’s qualifications. Jimmy Carter had executive experience as the president, as does GW Bush. Carter is active and productive in his post-presidential years, while GW’s jury is still out. If his father is any indication, he may never be heard from again – even AFTER toppling Saddam.

I don’t want a wimp or pontificator for my President. I do want a thinker, though. McCain seems only to be able to play on our sympathies for his POW status, with nothing else substantial to run on. Palin seems like she might have a chip on her shoulder, like Clinton earlier this year. My bet is on Obama for being intellectually and morally capable of dishing out the tough love our severely undisciplined nation is in dire need of, NOW. There is no sense in puffing up your chest, holding on to your pride, and voting McCain. Whether you are working class, male or female, a business owner or employee; make no mistake, it will hurt at first.

After 2 + decades of unrealistic expectations and mortgaged futures, its time to pay the piper. WW2 tactics in a world where the power has shifted unimaginably, has firmly postitioned our future in the balance. The countries we grew up as thinking of having third world conditions are outpacing the US and others in GDP, innovation, education, and other key areas proving, not indicating, the evolving dynamic of the world community’s power dynamic. We cannot afford to get this wrong – not as a party, but as a country, and possibly as a world.

Sep 15, 2008 - 5:52 pm 80. pat:

Um, gee folks. It turns out that Sarah Palin’s “mentor” when she first ran for Mayor of Wasilla says she was such a lousy mayor that they had to hire a city manager to do her job AND after she spen $50,000 in unauthorized funds to decorate her office “like a bordello” she said she could do anything she wants until a court says she can’t. Upchuck!
http:///www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/17/palin_mayor/

Sep 17, 2008 - 10:08 am

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