Peggy Noonan explains:
Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing — who is really one of them and who is not — and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.
She could become a transformative political presence.
So they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick.
The full article can be found here.
Yeah, I’m sure that’s true. It would have nothing to do with the criticisms offered by a certain nameless commentator unaware of her open mic here who we’ll just call Peggy N for the sake of argument. No wait. That’s too obvious. Let’s call her P Noonan.
And yes, I did read the spin at the top of the article you linked to. Do you think that removes the criticisms though?
So let me get this straight, you think the real reason Democrats dislike her is because she will sink the Republican ticket?
Yeah, that makes alot more sense.
Do you honestly feel she is the best person for the job?
I didn’t before…but now that the politics are playing out, I am starting to.
I would never attack Palin personally, because I believe in sticking to the issues:
For example, I agree wholeheartedly with Palin on the subject of free trade. Her strong stance, (widely well-known, due to her frequent speaking on the subject), is simply unassailable. Knowing HP’s interest in economics, perhaps he could comment on it.
Whereas, I have some serious objections to her stance on immigration. Although I recognize it as being finely-tuned through her years of service on the national stage. Unfortunately, when I comb through all of her many speeches, debates and opinions relating to immigration legislation, I somehow find them lacking - though I can’t quite put my finger on it.
On national health care, I guess we all agree that there’s no greater expert - as demonstrated by how beautifully and effectively she was able to lay out her health care plan in her speech to the Republican National Convention. Strangely, I have yet to hear a Palin supporter comment on her health plan.
Oh, and I also think it’s great that she opposed the Bridge to No Where. And, of course, I think it’s great that she supported the Bridge to No Where. Both of these were great positions.
So, that’s where I agree with, and disagree with Palin on the issues. No personal attacks. Completely on the issues.
That’s a strange reading of my post there, HP. Why does the left attack her (like the title of this post asks)? Is it that the left doesn’t like makeup and heels? Or is it that they regard her as unqualified, or regard the pick as cynical manipulation rather than a desire what is best for the country, just like Peggy and company said? Why does Peggy propose that the problem is her eating of mooseburgers or pro-second amendment stance when Peggy already knows what it is that makes Palin a poor choice. And if she’s listening to the leftist talking heads she already knows that they are repeating the same criticisms she offered.
Don’t these comments from Peggy seem strange to you in light of her own criticisms of Palin? What bothers me here is not only is this straw man argumentation, but she knows it’s a straw man because she knows what the real reasons are. She’s said them herself.
Thanks for the post. Full disc: I am an Obama voter, but not a Democrat and far from the attacker wing you’ve identified. One question: If we take the article at face value, are there any other reasons that others would use not to attack her, but rather to question? I think she is perfect bait to draw out the knuckleheaad left for premature and baseless attack - they’re amped for that and pre-judgmental to a fault. But the others?
Sure…there are certainly legitimate questions one can ask.