I wanted to let you and your readers know that at the time I made that post, doing the research, the public records searches, and the debunking of the stream of smears against Palin was a frantic 24/7 process.

I realized that my post was a bit sloppy and hard to follow, so I have cleaned the post up and presented the information so that it is easier to follow and absorb.

Hate is not to be “gotten” or understood, it is only there to be manipulated, like all emotions, for the ultimate goal.

Only psychiatrists and psychoanalysts want to comprehend hate to help people and relieve the cause of it. Everybody else has better uses for such strong emotion.

Well, that is a very nice example of the truism that it is not individual voters that get to decide who to vote for, it is I who in convincing them that they came up with their own ideas, that control who they vote for.

We spoke recently. She said, “Interesting times.” I said, “Yeah, they are. I’ve been thinking about your comment that for a woman to get elected she has to be three times as good to get one-third the votes.”

We hadn’t been talking national politics.

She said, “Well, what I meant was that when you see a woman in office, she is always exceptional. But alot of unexceptional men get elected.”

Then she leapt ahead – ” But that’s not the case with HER. People get elected to the level they belong, and she is right where she belongs, governor of a small state like that, she isn’t fit for anything else.” I’m paraphrasing slightly because I don’t remember the EXACT words – it was SHOCKING to me. I knew she was for Obama, but I did expect her to appreciate Palin.

This was coming from a very successful, driven, powerful in her own right woman, who is also happily married with three great kids.

I just don’t get it.

Neo, you just reminded me of 11th Captain Zaraki of Bleach (Japanese anime)

Zaraki wears an eye patch purposefully to handicap himself since it decreases his overall strength. This is so that he can have a good and long fight rather than crush the opposition with his full power.

Now if you apply that to Sarah Palin, Neo, it is just too hilarious ; )

I’ve never seen a body of water that goes from horizon to horizon and none of my friends in my village has seen it either.

Therefore the ocean cannot exist. Right.

And, I agree – the trouble with Hillary was that she was too power hungry, willing to subjugate herself and her self respect in order to stay close to power. She had everything else, smart, hardworking, and yes, successful in her own right. But she shoulda 86’d Bill. 🙂

I’m stunned by the women reacting to Palin with such visceral hatred. That they feel she represents a threat to them. Insanity rules.

I think Hillary-hatred is quite distinct from Palin-hatred. Hillary irritated many (including me) because she struck the “I am woman, hear me roar” pose while shamelessly riding the coattails of her husband, without whom she would be writing wills somewhere for a living. Her campaign proved she has minimal political or organizational skills, and basically is a walking argument for the Peter Principle.

Palin-hatred I suspect is driven by the hard-core leftists, with liberals serving as the chorus, as evidenced by the blatant smears and scurrilous personal attacks that characterize Alinsky-style demonization of the opposition. Hard-core leftists apparently view her as a huge and growing impediment to their dreams of imposiing collectivism on us. Palin might get women off the leftists’ plantation, in which case the left will lose every election, and is too weak to accomplish anything by force. So, Palin has to go.