[img]1|left|||no_popup[/img]A bulb just dinged on in my slow traveling mind.
If Sarah Palin turned terrorist and carpet-bombed, say, Harrisburg tonight, the entirety of America’s liberal elite would convert America’s prettiest politician into an instant Golden Girl.
You know how liberals fear offending Muslimterrorists, which turns out to be one word.
Trembling at the prospect of Muslim retaliation,the thin-skinned boys of the liberal media would instantly cease their mockery of Ms. Palin and experience a miraculous epiphany.
Pivoting in a blur, the boys would begin hailing her as the best GOP hope for ’12.
For 15 months, the dominant effete liberal chorus in the media has been thrashing Ms. Palin, right down to two wanting journalists in the Los Angeles Times this morning, the reliably unimaginative Timmy Rutten and the under-informed Mary McNamara. Their plodding pieces of burnt journalistic toast follow last Friday’s Times trashing of Ms. Palin by Robin Abcarian, who thinks fair and objective newspapers are old-fashioned.
Judging by their three dull, reheated lopsided attacks on Ms. Palin, you would think Sassy Sarah had — oh, I don’t know, maybe gunned down 13 military-types at Fort Hood — and it was quickly discovered she is not a Muslim. Therefore, we can condemn her as the quintessential scarlet woman.
Sarah Palin, whose smash new book reached stores this morning, is neither the best nor the worst politician of the last 50 years, an obvious fact that has deftly eluded liberal boys.
Boys, Why Be in a Hurry?
An accurate assessment of Ms. Palin the politician probably is still a few years away. That just cannot be too complicated for liberals to acknowledge.
Such subtleties, however, are consistently are lost on the effete liberal elite. They go for the broad joke every time, the bellywhopper rather than the graceful swan dive.
Liberal journalists probably think that nuance is the name of President Reagan’s widow.
Nearly every morning for 15 months, an unimaginative liberal journalist somewhere in the world, out of jealousy and spite, has tried to burn Ms. Palin at the printed and spoken stake. (The boys have been assaulting her almost as long as Swish has been dithering over whether to send 40,000 troops, only Republican soldiers, or Eric Holder to Afghanistan.)
Let us not tarry.
Judging by the self-inspired guffaws, from Paris to Perris, the liberal boys have failed in their attempt to turn her into a laughing stock. Virtually without fail, Ms. Palin has steadfastly maintained her dignity like the solidly grounded, well-trained young woman she is.
Newsweek sought to ridicule Ms. Palin on this week’s cover by dressing her up clownishly. Liberals slapped their knees and smacked their foreheads. They thought they had landed another whopper.
Ms. Palin, always retaining her admirable poise, looked at them the same way a teenage girl glances over her shoulder at desperately pursuing boys. “Can’t catch me, can ya?” she winks with a bubbly smile.
I believe Bernie Goldberg, former CBS television reporter now a regular on the Bill O’Reilly Show, may have fingered the reason the liberal boys have been mawkishly chasing Ms. Palin.
Goldberg’s Brainy Goldmine
She is not one of their standard-issue liberal effete types, Mr. Goldberg said. She did not graduate from their elite universities. Her locution resembles that voiced by middle-range folks in Middle America, the region liberals loathe and fear the most.
Her legion of liberal critics have not figured Ms. Palin out, but many of us have not. Liberals make a nice living as premeditated conclusion-jumpers.
Ms. Palin remains an unknown political figure. Give her time. She told Barbara Walters today that on a 1 to 10 scale, she would generously give Swish a 4, and what is wronmg with that?
Many politicians — think Swish — such as the incredibly battered but proud and brave Ms. Palin, have burst onto the national stage slightly unformed.
Once they have gained the necessary seasoning, they run for office. Some have won, some have lost.
As an example of someone unformed and remarkably uninformed, how about the overmatched Swish? He hung out the Do Not Disturb sign a few months ago while he dithered over whether to send the 40,000 requested troops. Ms. Palin, as we have seen with each edition, is not the only politician in need of seasoning.
