[img]1|left|||no_popup[/img]A far more fascinating question than whether Gov. Sarah Palin will run for the White House in ’12 or ‘16 is why liberals are obsessed with her.
All but one explanation has been eliminated.
I presume the Left has been foaming over Gov. Palin for 10 consecutive months for the same reason I keep suggesting to Diane that we invite Angelina over for dinner once a week— even, or especially, if Brad is out of the country.
Baby, she makes ‘em swoon.
Easy on the eyes. Soothing to the mind.
Not even Swish Obama can make those claims.
Falling in Love Is Wonderful
Given the proximity of love and hate, I believe many Lefties actually have a hankering for her.
Else why would they allow the lovely, charismatic governor to dominate their conscience for 44 weeks without relief?
The women on the Left wish they were as beautiful as Gov. Palin, and the men on the Left wish she would come to their house for dinner.
If the election were held today, she might make Mr. Obama wish he had stayed on drugs.
Everywhere I turn, all adults with a pulse are raving about Gov. Palin.
When the far lesser of my sons-in-law waltzed into the kitchen yesterday morning, burbling about what a fool the governor was to resign, he fell into the same rhetorical trap that has turned so much of the extreme left into monkey-talkers.
He is a pretty smart fellow. But he could only stutter, like a rattled little boy, when I asked him why resigning at the end of this month was such a negative move for her. He also stuttered incoherently when I asked why he was so exorcised over Gov. Palin’s decision. He mumbled something about Fox News, a vacuous defense that would not have won him advancement from the seventh grade.
I Have Suffered a Dose of This
Between marriages, I met a couple of girls who spun my head around, and when our relationships ended, I was low for awhile.
But 10 months?
A psychiatrist would have you committed if you became that maniacal over a girl.
Gov. Palin’s Republican ticket was skunked in November, which was supposed to put her on a speeding escalator into obscurity. If anything, Lefties — prone to treating the Truth like a large patch of playdough — have obsessed about her more since the election.
This is anti-intuitive.
After Mr. Mondale was treated like floor wax by President Reagan in ’84, he was unwanted by every American except his wife and children.
After the much longer established Bob Dole was walloped in ’96 by President Clinton, he could not have gotten arrested — even if he had murdered half of Iraq and two-thirds of Mumbai.
Since left wingers belong to the anti-intellectual wing of American politics, it is disappointing to those of us who value rationality that the drum-bangers on the Left are unable to explain their mania to talk and to write about the governor 500 days in a row, non-stop.
We are, however, accustomed to being disappointed by the Left.
