The Palin Effect
By Miguel Guanipa (09/05/08)
With all due respect to the Democratic Party’s symbol – Wednesday night Sarah Palin literary kicked ass.
If I was a betting man, I would wager that Obama and Biden are pretty scared right now.
And what is worse, the only solace they can find to appease their trembling hearts is found by snuggling up under the comforting embrace of a media whose last residue of public trust is ebbing away faster than you can say the words “community organizer”.
There is a distinct possibility – but only time will tell - that Mrs. Palin’s speech dealt such a crippling blow to the liberal media elite and nationwide conclaves of Obama personality cults, that they are likely to remain on edge for at least the rest of this election season; but most importantly, the exposition was something that is rarely seen today in American politics: an honest speech.
The next logical step for liberals will be to try to cast Palin as a female version of George W. Bush, cowboy hat and all. One could say – to quote the Obama mantra – it’s going to be “more of the same” from the progressive jihad’s attack dogs. Their recent digging up of a sermon where she suggested the Iraq War was a summons from God is one of these many feeble attempts to paint her as a zealous proponent of a full fledged American Theocracy.
But the problem with this logic is that liberals continue to stubbornly preach their message to their own choir. The attack against McCain that he represents “More of the same” does not hit a nerve with most independents who are not sold on Obama and may very well decide this election, but is merely a tired refrain that is heard only by those who need no convincing; namely, those who think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an acceptable choice for a leader, Bush and Hitler have a lot in common, and John Kerry actually earned his purple hearts.
And yet that’s not the biggest problem for liberals right now.
More than anything, Palin represents a sobering reminder of how utterly out of touch liberals have become with their own ideology. They have been forced to stand at odds with a member of the female nation; one whom they claim – along with other lies they have perpetrated for ages – is routinely portrayed by the opposition as a member of the weaker sex. To this liberated woman liberals are in essence saying that she should have stayed home and baked some cookies instead.
A woman who – under not drastically different circumstances - would have signified the achievement of many of the hard earned rights for which liberals claim to have fought since they woke up in the sixties, is now seen a threat to their own narrow minded constituency. Suddenly, Liberals are not taking on the establishment; they are the establishment.
These so called progressives - who had no scruples about voting for Hillary under the criteria that her most important – and only - qualification was her womanhood - are now desperately seeking for a tenable excuse to vote against Palin.The logic seems to run thus: you can vote for a woman on the sole excuse that she is a woman, as long as she happens to be a liberal- should she be a conservative, you should only vote for her after you have gathered enough data and combed every gutter in order to make a more informed decision. How revolutionary. If that is the kind of sanity that Palin inspires, that should be reason enough to vote for her.
Certainly Palin is bound to galvanize both camps as she presents a rather surprising choice for those who had dreadfully low expectations, thanks to the relentless – yet unfounded - media attacks. The difference is that democrats will continue apace in all their fury, acting now out of desperation and a basic instinct of self-preservation, as has been shown lately by the levels to which they will continue to stoop to in order to regain their momentum, whereas Republicans will be compelled to support their candidate in full force by the inspiration which comes from being so pleasantly surprised.
What’s left to McCain and Palin is to keep their noses clean, brush off the predictable and juvenile attacks from the media, and soon enough they will be crossing that finish line, more than victorious.
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