I don’t think that they’re august publications any more. More like december publications. Late december. Almost newyear’seve publications, in fact.

We should also have included a collective (oh, the irony!) psychotic break. Maybe they’re just so far out of touch with reality that they don’t realize how they sound to people who are not themselves unhinged.

It used to be noted columnists at prominent newspapers would pay tribute to those who devoted their career to public service when the public servant announced his retirement. But not the angry hate mongers at the New York Times. They use it as another opportunity to denigrate Liberman because they disagree with how he performed his service.

It’s hard to fathom how low the NYT has sunk since the turn of the century.

I don’t feel she would be a good choice to run this country, but she does not deserve the horrific treatment she gets.

I’d sign that.

Moreover, the more serious our predicament becomes, the more blatant is the failure of conventional wisdom–and the less there is to lose by taking a chance on a candidate who is not business-as-usual.

“Perhaps the reason why the left is almost incandescently furious at Sarah Palin is because she refuses to play their little game. Since she doesn’t use their dictionary she is pilloried as illiterate. By using Oldspeak words she ipso facto gives offense. It is this stiff-necked refusal to get with the word program that may paradoxically give her the political strength. Those who’ve accepted the vocabulary of politesse, aka Newspeak, have unwittingly surrendered. Pre-surrendered, in fact, for the dubious honor of acceptance into quality society.”

We should expect a steady drip of stories of women who wake up and ask, “What was I thinking?” Each time it will be treated as a shocking new discovery. I don’t think that this will happen at a rate that will make a difference to the mass consciousness of the urban upper and middle classes, or those who wish to join them. They have the ability to cut off communications they don’t wish to receive.

Lieberman Derangement Syndrome is another manifestation of the beleaguered flock’s need to silence the heretics: they want to continue to believe.