Why they really fear Sarah Palin
Image via WikipediaLet me begin with a paradox. The more Sarah Palin seems unelectable, the more electable she may actually be. The media blitzkrieg launched against Palin may be interpreted not as a sign of her unfitness for office but precisely as a measure of her eligibility. As I’ve written elsewhere, “Palin’s electability can be reckoned as an inverse function of the virulent campaign intent on her delegitimation. … The greater the fury … she is met with, the greater the likelihood that she poses a genuine threat. One does not raise a mallet to crush an ant.” Conversely, the beatification of Obama by the same leftist media is an infallible indication that they are arguing in partibus infidelium. Indeed, the media is almost always inversely reliable, providing an ironic touchstone for the facts of any matter. Just cross out and write in the opposite and we can be confident of a more accurate approximation to the truth.There is much more.
Thus we are told that Palin’s “national negatives” are too high for her to be regarded as a viable candidate. But this is to forget that such “negatives” are mainly the result of a coordinated media assault whose effect can be mitigated with time, intelligent pushback and increased exposure on the ground. Presence can counter image and word of mouth can triumph over print. Negatives can be neutralized and even turned into positives. Harry Truman’s whistle-stop tour through the American heartland enabled him to upstage a heavily-favored Tom Dewey in 1948. The cries of “Give ‘em Hell, Harry,” which became his campaign theme, can translate in the present context as “Give ‘em Hell, Sarah,” if she takes her show on the road.
We are also told that Palin has polarized the nation, which is the fiction the media wants us to accept. The truth is that America has been unraveling since the ’60s and that Obama, not Palin, has even further divided the nation, so much so that America has come to resemble not a single, unified country but two or more countries in a state of internecine conflict. As the “culture wars” continue to heat up, E pluribus unum might better read Ex uno plures. Metaphorically speaking, the waters are rising, not receding, as President Canute once assured us. There should be no doubt about this. It is Obama, the putative redeemer of his nation and the great healer, who, through both his agenda and his failings, has brought his nation to the very brink.
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If she were as bad as they claim, they would not fear her so much. Whether she can overcome the challenge of the negative coverage will decide not only her fate but ours. Others before her have overcome it. Ronald Reagan and George Bush to give two examples. I think she has yet to make the commitment to run. If she has, she is holding that decision close to postpone the fiery reaction of her foes to a time of her choosing.
The Palin attacks continue in the LSM even when she’s relatively quiet. I thought she might get a break in the ‘No Palin February’ scheme. A couple even mocked the leopard patterned shoes she wore in Long Island. (Trashy) I guess they had a hard time finding something she said that was wrong, so they went to plan B: Attack her family, wardrobe, the TPM in general, or something off topic but controversial she may have said years ago.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with her on most topics, but even if I didn’t, I would support her for standing up to all the media attacks and coming out swinging with what she believes are truths. How can anyone not respect that.