Sarah Palin has perfected the art of annoying liberals. This is particularly true of liberal women. They have dreamed of having a woman in power for decades, but Sarah Palin does not begin to resemble that image. They want a brilliant, Harvard or Yale graduate, pro-choice woman to lead the way with their progressive agenda. They might tolerate a Republican, but only if she meets their standards. Sarah Palin not only doesn’t fit the mold, she despises the mold. She didn’t attend Yale or Harvard, she attended Hawaii Pacific, North Idaho and the University of Idaho. She is not a lawyer, she has a degree in communications. She doesn’t use liberal speak when she talks and she has this high squeaky, annoying voice that just sounds wrong. She says things like you “betcha,” and even winks occasionally to make it even worse. Then to top it off she is a housewife with five children who chose to have a down’s syndrome baby rather than have an abortion. Even Republican women despise her as being unworthy. They are nauseated that this undeserving creature can possibly be liked by anyone. They hate her and want to see her destroyed.
They are so blinded by bias that they are incapable of actually listening to her. If they did, they would discover that this is one very bright person who is usually way ahead of everyone else on important political issues. In some ways this is remarkably similar to the way Abraham Lincoln was viewed by the cultured elite of his day. They despised him and considered him to be an uneducated hick from Illinois, totally unqualified to be President of the U.S. . Those people who were blinded by their bias failed to notice that Lincoln was actually brilliant and was an exceptionally skilled leader. Historians, who researched what Lincoln actually said and evaluated what he did have a very different opinion. Most historians believe that Abraham Lincoln may have been the brightest man to ever hold the office of President of the United States.
Now Bristol Palin has inflicted even more pain on the liberal establishment with her performance on Dancing with the Stars. They are aghast that this simple girl from Alaska, only put on the show because of her famous mother, keeps beating far more worthy candidates. They see a dance. They see a Jennifer Gray and a Brandy dance with grace and elegance far superior to what Bristol Palin can do and they cannot understand why people keep voting for her.
But what they don’t understand is that nothing about Dancing with the Stars was ever a legitimate dancing contest. I mean when you have contestants like Buzz Aldrin, who could barely move his feet without falling down, competing with 25 years old professional dancers, what kind of contest is that? If it was all about dancing, then they would have only good dancers as contestants. Many people who won this show were far from the best dancers in the competition. This is nothing more or less than an entertainment show and Bristol Palin has proved to be very entertaining.
She is also something that has never been on the show before; she is a normal person, not a celebrity. Here is a girl who was thrust on the national stage in the worst possible way. Any girl getting pregnant in high school experiences some level of humiliation, but Bristol Palin had to endure being the target of an unprecedented and unrelenting nationwide personal attack. How many other high school girls do you know who are the subject of humiliating jokes by Dave Letterman? One would expect such a person to be depressed, angry and miserable. But, she is not. She is just making the best of a bad situation. What is remarkable is how happy she is and how content she is with herself. I personally think that is what makes liberals so mad. They tried to destroy her and they cannot understand why other people don’t hate her too. In their minds she should have at least had the decency to be miserable. But there are other people, not blinded by Palin paranoia, who are charmed. People started voting for her because she is Sarah Palin’s daughter. They are now voting for her because many of them discovered they like Bristol Palin. They are voting for her because she is remarkable real, which is a rarity on a reality show. I do not know if she will win the whole thing, but ultimately it doesn’t really matter. By coming this far, she has already won.
TDM