it's a disease that is spreading rapidly through the Left . . .
With all the attention over the weekend given to politically charged words, it got me to wondering about a subject that up to now, I just didn't want to address because a couple people that I know fit these abnormal characteristics.
The subject is Sarah Palin and this intense, intense derange syndrome that folks who are anti-Palin seem to have acquired.
Even the mention of her name makes their heads almost burst.
It stuns me the intense emotion that comes out on this subject and I just don't get it. It's especially troubling because I have a couple really close friends of mine who make some of the darnedest inflammatory comments about Sarah Palin.
I follow politics more than either of these individuals and I can not for the life of me figure out what in the world Sarah Palin every said or did that would get an almost violent reaction from these folks. Disagree with her politically, sure, but this hyperactive, irrational and quite honestly embarrassing language that comes from these people is just appalling. I've read one of her books and I've watched each of the episodes of her TLC show "Sarah Palin's Alaska" and I see her on FOX on occasion and I've read her blog on a rare occasion and I . . . don't . . . get it.
She doesn't beat baby seals, she doesn't push down elderly women as they try and cross the street and she doesn't abort babies . . . ok, so that one may may have legs.
So what could it be? If we step back, what do those of us in the lower 48 really know about Sarah Palin prior to her stint as a V.P. candidate?
I got an e-mail today which led me to a web site that had some background information that maybe, just maybe some folks might want to read. It might add some depth. By the way, I was also able to find that FactCheck.org, a liberal group, checked these statements and found them to be valid.
"By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.
The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.
Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti.
Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich.
The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I imagine - that she's packing heat herself).
Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America."
Ok, well, I don't see anything here that should make a good Liberal's emotional meter to skyrocket toward insanity when the name Palin is mentioned. But hey, if anyone can give me some credible facts to justify why some people on the Left blow a gasket every time her name comes up, then please do because otherwise, I'm left with the impression that as one famous philosopher (!) of Hollywood wrote in a script:
"stupid is as stupid does"
