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September 21, 2008
Sarah Palin's Anti-Elitist Charm
Our Sister Sarah Palin's Anti-Elitist Charm
by Ralph Peters
I KNOW Sarah Palin, and so does my wife.
Neither of us ever actually met the governor of Alaska, but we grew up with her - in the small-town America despised by the leftwing elite.
One gal-pal classmate of my wife's has even traveled from New York's Finger Lakes to Alaska to hunt moose with her husband. (Got one, too.) And no, Ms. Streisand, she isn't a redneck missing half her teeth - she's a lawyer.
The sneering elites and their mediacrat fellow travelers just don't get it: How on earth could anyone vote for someone who didn't attend an Ivy League school? And having more than 1.7 children marks any woman as a rube. (If Palin had any taste, her teenage daughter would've had a quiet abortion in a discreet facility.)
And what kind of retro-Barbie would stay happily married to her high-school sweetheart? Ugh. She even kills animals and eats them. (The meat and fish served in the upscale bistros patronized by Obama supporters appears by magic - it didn't really come from living things. . .)
Palin has that hick accent, too. And that busy-mom beehive 'do. Double ugh! Bet she hasn't even read Ian McEwan's latest novel and can't explain Frank Gehry's vision for a new architecture. She and her blue-collar (triple ugh!) husband don't even own a McMansion, let alone an inherited family compound on the Cape.
And she wants to be vice president?
The opinion-maker elites see Sarah Palin clearly every time they look up from another sneering article in The New Yorker: She's a country-bumpkin chumpette from a hick state with low latte availability. She's not one of them and never will be. That's the real disqualifier in this race.
Now let me tell you what those postmodern bigots with their multiple vacation homes and their disappointing trust-fund kids don't see:
Sarah Palin's one of us. She actually represents the American people.
When The New York Times, CNN, the NBC basket of basket cases and all the barking blog dogs insult Palin, they're insulting us. When they smear her, they're smearing every American who actually works for a living, who doesn't expect a handout, who doesn't have a full-time accountant to parse the family taxes, who believes in the Pledge of Allegiance and who thinks a church is more than just a tedious stop on daughter Emily's 100K wedding day.
Go ahead, faux feminists and Hollywood deep thinkers: Snicker at Sarah America's degree from the University of Idaho, but remember that most Americans didn't attend Harvard or Princeton as a legacy after daddy donated enough to buy his kid's way in.
Go ahead, campaign strategists: Mock Americans who go to church and actually pray. But you might want to run the Census numbers first.
And go right ahead: Dismiss all of us who remember how, on the first day of deer season, our high school classrooms were half empty (not a problem at Andover or Exeter).
That rube accent of Palin's? It's a howler. But she sounds a lot more like the rest of us than a Harvard man or a Smithie ever will.
Why does Sarah Palin energize all of us who don't belong to the gilded leftwing circle? Because she's us. We sat beside her in class. We hung out after school (might've even shared a backseat combat zone on prom night). And now she lives next door, raising her kids.
For the first time since Ronald Reagan, our last great president, we, the people, see a chance that one of us might have a voice in governing our country.
Speaking of Reagan (Eureka College, Illinois), every chief executive we've had since the Gipper snapped his final salute as president has had the imprimatur of an Ivy League university. And we've gone from bad to worse:
* George Herbert Walker Bush: Yale.
* William Jefferson Clinton: Georgetown, Oxford, Yale Law.
* George W. Bush: Yale and Harvard Business School.
The first lacked the sense to finish the job in Desert Storm; the second lacked the guts to go after al Qaeda when it was just a startup - and the third, well, let's just say he disappointed our low expectations.
Now we have the Ivy League elite's "he's not only like us but he's a minority and we're so wonderful to support him" candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (Columbia and Harvard Law).
Our country can't afford another one of these clowns. Harvard isn't the answer - Harvard's the problem.
So here's the message Palin is sending on behalf of the rest of us (the down-market masses Dems love at election time and ignore once the voting's done): The rule of the snobs is over. It's time to give one of us a chance to lead.
Sen. John McCain's one of us, too. He raised hell at Annapolis (quadruple ugh: military!), and he'll raise the right kind of hell in Washington.
McCain's so dumb he really loves his country.
Sarah Palin's dumb that way, too. How terribly unfashionable.
Wild Thing's comment............
Wonderful piece on how Sarah is one of us and the media and leftist elites just don't get it. Peters hits the nail squarely on the head regarding her popularity and how the elites sniff at her as they peer down their bony noses at us all.
"When they smear her, they're smearing every American who actually works for a living, "
Out of the park, Ralph Peters!
Go, Sarah. Show the world who really lives and works in the USA and keeps things humming along.
....Thank you RAC for sending this article to me.
RAC has a website that is awesome. 336th Assault Helicopter Company
13th Combat Aviation Battalion - 1st Aviation Brigade - Soc Trang, Republic of Vietnam
Posted by Wild Thing at September 21, 2008 04:50 AM
Comments
Those dummycraps HAVE to poke fun at someone! I'd rather vote for someone honest and down to earth than some stuffed shirt who can't speak without a teleprompter. An ivy league education doesn't always mean you're smart. I've met many ivy leaguers and all I see is someone who is smart assed because they feel that respect is owed them. They went to Harvard or Dartmouth or whatever. I don't give respect where respect isn't owed. And I have friends who never even set foot on a college campus who have more class in their finger than those ivy league elitists.
Posted by: Lynn at September 21, 2008 06:38 AM
Sarah Palin is Middle America. That is the America of traditional values which are so sneered at by the D.C. and Hollywood elitists and the government subsidized low life.
Obama and Biden do not represent anything good about America. They only represent big socialist government and crooks. Sarah represents what makes America work so well, strong individualism and freedom from government.
Posted by: TomR at September 21, 2008 10:58 AM
Some of you know that I’m a retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant. As such, I still keep in contact with quite a few active duty folks, mostly of the senior enlisted ranks…I’m not an elitist, they’re just more my age. Of the ones I talked to on the upcoming election, every single one of them says they like Sarah Palin. The one thing they all echo is that “she’s just like them”. She wasn’t born with a Silver Spoon in her mouth. She’s had to work for a living to get where she’s at. Her husband works dangerous jobs on the oil fields and commercial fishing. They have the same family problems as we do and they and the McCain’s have sons who wear the same uniform and have taken the same oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It’s just not the active duty folks. We have Army and Air National Guard and Naval Reserves in the area and a bunch of military retirees and they’re all echoing the same thing. When they look at Captain McCain and Governor Palin, they see themselves. They also see parents who have children in harm’s way, just like they are, and they know that if anybody will work to prevent war, it will be them.
Posted by: BobF at September 21, 2008 11:58 AM
Excellent post Chrissie. Sarah is truly one of us. BobF has summed up what I feel about her and McCain and their families, I may dislike McCain personally but he made a good choice of running mate. None shirked their civic duties, none got deferments that put others son's and daughter's in harms way so they could get an elitist's leap to the head of the line. P.S. You don't have to be a lawyer or a judge to make good decisions, the right decisions.
Thanks RAC, you have a great website, if you were in one of those birds overhead, class of '68-'69, thank you.
Posted by: Jack at September 21, 2008 03:54 PM
Lynn, me too, I know people that have graduated college and those that did not go or like Nicholas went to nightschool over the years while he did his main career.
I agree too Lynn, class can not be learned nor bought. It is either inside the person or not.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 21, 2008 06:59 PM
Tom, exactly and this is great.
"Sarah represents what makes America work so well, strong individualism and freedom from government."
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 21, 2008 07:01 PM
BobF, thank yo uso much for sharing that it means a lot.That was great.
I am so glad to hear that a lot of the military active duty and retired to know feel like that.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 21, 2008 07:05 PM
Jack thanks, this is so true and we see so many lawyers etc. that make the wrong decisions.
"You don't have to be a lawyer or a judge to make good decisions, the right decisions."
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 21, 2008 07:10 PM
