The Victimization of Sarah Palin

I almost hope that Sarah Palin is calling it quits because an indictment is about to be unsealed or she has been involved in a long-distance lesbian affair with an Argentine firecracker.

Otherwise it means Blondenfreude has won again—and the only path to redemption is embracing victimhood.

Recently it seems that all Sarah has been doing is whining about her treatment at the hands of the mainstream press, other Republicans, and a dirty old man who thinks himself a sophisticated late night comic. I realize some of this can not be ignored—no mother would stay silent in the face of statutory rape jokes about her adolescent daughter. But playing the victim is always a no winner.

For years Ronald Reagan took vicious flack from both Democrats and Republicans—an unqualified nutcase, whose greatest achievement was being best supporting actor to a chimpanzee. Reagan did not whine—nor did he quit—he just pressed on, and in the end the laughingstock got the last laugh.

I am sure it has been difficult for the governor—the feeding frenzy has survived the election and shows no signs of abating. Conservative women always make the left go wild—but Caribou Barbie is a special case. At one time she was a serious threat to the Obama Express.

After Palin took the stage with John McCain, for the first time in the campaign, polls showed McCain beating Obama in the electoral college. Picking Palin was a brilliant gamble, and one that I had suggested long before he made the decision.

Sarah Palin did not just shore up social conservatives, she had libertarian tendencies that could have broadened the ticket's appeal and there was the female factor.

Barack Obama had won the nomination by defeating the first serious female candidate for president and one who happened to have received more votes in the primaries than him. A whole lot of women (and residents of Florida) were really pissed. I thought it foolish of him not to pick Hillary Clinton for veep—and McCain could capitalize on the bitch slap and all the sexism.

But Obama was smarter than McCain and myself. He knew that virtually all African-Americans would vote for him simply because of his race even if they disagreed with his politics—but that is not the pattern among women voters.

Unlike conservative African-Americans, many women were indignant at the suggestion they might vote for Palin “simply because she was a woman”. By this they really meant they would not vote for her because she was a woman.

And the smear attacks began in earnest—much of it being extraordinarily mean, and often vile and disgusting, misogynistic falsehoods and crude sexist witticisms.

Sarah Palin was certainly no more uninformed or underqualifed than the dolt picked by the First George Bush—Danforth Quayle. Her Church was much less offensive than the Reverend Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ, which Barack Obama attended for twenty years.

As far as experience, since Palin had served more than one day in an executive position, she beat Barack Obama. And she had not obtained public office on a tidal wave of sympathy engendered by the public exposure of a philandering husband.

But that did not fit the story line. A Wasilla hillbilly girl, with a typical slightly dysfunctional family, who attends an evangelical church—could not possibly, on merit alone, achieve high office—nor have a brain in her head.

So the press and the left were relentless, and have now been joined by certain elements of the Republican Party—the descendants of the country club Rockefeller Republicans—whom Ronald Reagan also had to contend with, and even tried to make peace with by picking George Herbert Walker Bush as his vice-president, even though Ivy League Poppy had accused him of such things as “voo doo economics.”

But Barracuda Sarah has seemingly thrown in the towel.

To knowingly and intelligently choose victimhood is disturbing, but I think I know the reason—she is a woman. For women the most important thing is their family—a cause for which most women will always suck it up. Sarah Palin is unwilling to let them throw any more dirt into the face of her family.

The collective asses of the left and hags of the Hamptons should feel quite ashamed.