I have been thinking about the causes of the rise of Palin-hatred. Here are the two underlying causes:
(1) Suppressed liberal male rage against the feminist political correctness that dominates the Democratic Party. The appearance on the scene of a minority Presidential candidate has allowed weak men who have been cowed by feminism an outlet to vent their rage. Call it the Obama effect and we saw it begin with the denigration of Hillary Clinton.
Many liberal women hate Governor Palin because she is a meme buster. Here is this woman who has achieved all the woman’s movement goals expressed by the feminists without compromising her traditional values in perhaps the most masculine state in the union. Her success is a put down of all they believe in.
(2) Obama is the least qualified of the four candidates. Joe Biden is incoherent most of the time. Obama supporters attacks on Palin’s qualification is a defensive mechanism that they have developed to convince themselves that despite his empty resume Obama is the One. Notice that anytime you challenge an Obama supporter to describe his qualifications you get a blank stare or an attack on Sarah Palin.
I think Parker, Noonan and company fall under cause #2. They cannot justify voting for Obama on policy grounds so they lash out at Palin to make their choice feel better. McCain’s choice of Governor Palin as his running mate exposed the inadequacies of the Obama-Biden ticket. I have to admit that I thought that this would have worked to McCain’s advantage but the apparently the psychological commitment of Obama supporters is so strong that their reaction was to lash out rather then reconsider their choice.
