Want to get a taste of how deep the anti-Palin bias is in liberal redoubts like New York? You could open the New York Times and read the shocking, shocking! front-page story that the Republican National Committee spent $150,000 to buy clothes for Sarah Plain and her family while they’re on the campaign trail (and then you might wonder 1) why the DNC didn’t have to do the same for Joe Biden–of course, he already had suitable duds–and 2) why the Times has so far failed to mention that Obama recently spent an estimated $800,000, excluding such details as security, etc., on two trips to Hawaii). You could refer to the Times. Or you could just note advertisements like the one below for Manhattan Mini Storage, which was sent to us by a New York reader who noticed it while riding the F Train:
Somehow, I don’t think we will be seeing a similar poster about Barack Obama’s lack of experience. There is some commentary on the photo here.
I saw this over the weekend and it sickened me. They also did something stupid like this against Bush and Cheney last year I think and I remember they even posted a note asking viewers if they thought their ads in general went too far. Sadly, I rent a couple of spaces from them, and I am strongly considering leaving them.
Cheered by the thought that McCain might pull off a victory after all.
Strongly considering the move as opposed to definitely doing it because my staunch liberal girlfriend would want to know why (and I don’t want to go down that road with her).
The reality of the mindset behind this transit card can only recall to mind the opening chapter of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce”:
“Do they like this place?” I asked.
“As much as they’d like anything,” he answered.”They’ve got cinemas, fish and chip shops and advertisements and all the sorts of things they want. The appalling lack of any intellectual life doesn’t worry them….”
Every time I think anti-Palin hysteria can’t get more ridiculous, it does. This ad reads like an uninspired parody.
Please pay special attention to the anti-choice abortion button on the advertisement. I am utterly convinced that the top 25% of the formally and informally better educated voters are casting their ballots primarily based on their position regarding abortion. This is the hidden secret of the current presidential campaign. More often than not, you will be able to determine the voting preference of an individual by asking this one question:
“Where do you stand on the abortion issue?”
Everything else is of secondary importance. Abortion is the key issue!
You know, David Thomson, I think you are correct. Abortion is the key issue with regard to Palin. With people like that Maher guy, it is tied with sexual freedom/liberation.
Think about that. Remember the woman who aborted one of her twins because she couldn’t face the agony of moving to a cheaper place on Staten Island and shopping at Walmart’s. These are people who want to live their lives with no responsibilities other than acquiring the right style and appearances. They can take care of Time with botox and maybe have a designer baby in their late 40′s by paying a poor person to be a surrogate mommy, and someone else to be a nanny.
These people have no future that matters.
Re: #5: I can’t imagine getting all bothered about a silly question concerning eugenics. After all, the messiah’s gonna save my retirement for me! (-*
And a further thought here: these people ‘hate’ Palin because she has a husband and children AND glamour AND a great job.
The wizened prunes on tv have always thought and lived by the belief that there is a trade-off, and they have chosen glamour and a great job.
The very bottom line is that they will have no grandchildren to buy presents for this Christmas. And to make sandwiches for because that is what they want on Christmas day. Maybe with cheez whiz.
They will have nothing.
As a lib, all they have to do is remind people how anti-choice (or pro-life) she is. The “lack of experience” while worshipping the Darling O is a lie and hypocritical.
But then, most of my fellow pro-choicers are nutsy. I remember one feminist claiming that she would pleasure Clinton because he kept abortion rights. I thought he was president, not king. It was stupid. And they will do the same slobbering over Obama. But I would laugh (ok, chuckle, then protest) if by some fluke Roe v Wade was overturned on Obama’s watch.
Besides, I take solace that that poster is only in NYC. It seems pretty isolated and redundant. Still, I feel for Mr. Kimball
As an outsider (British), and as someone who disagrees with quite a lot of Sarah Palin’s views, I am disgusted to see the outright hatred and misogyny that has marked the liberal/democratic campaign.
As Gerard Baker, US correspondent for the London Times, puts it:
“[S]he has been the victim of one of the nastiest, most sustained and comprehensive slime-jobs ever performed by a hyper-partisan national and global media.”
Changing the subject, my smutty English mind is boggling at the idea of “riding the F train”. We don’t have trains like that in England.
The fact that this is going on in a city where walking down the street with a McCain sign will earn you boos a-plenty, insults to your intelligence, and numerous middle-finger salutes is not at all surprising.
What is surprising is that these buffoons consider themselves open-minded and tolerant.
The word “choice” in this context is meaningless. A woman electing to carry a fetus to term and deliver a human baby has not made a choice in accordance with the orthodoxy. In this instance, choice is no choice, it is a mandate to abort and nothing else.
And Rachel, note that after eight years of Bush 41, Roe v. Wade still stands, abortion is still legal. Where is his blow job?
Incidentally, what would happen if Roe were overturned? The matter would devolve to the states. Some states would certainly place restrictions on abortion. Some would do nothing. Abortion would not suddenly move to back alleys and coat hangers. Just as Vegas is known for quickie weddings and almost as quickie divorces, other states could become abortion meccas (I expect CA and MA will not change their laws at all, save perhaps making it illegal for Republican women to not have abortions).
In any event, Sarah Palin is not going to open up Super Secret VP Briefcase # 27b, the one with the hitherto unknown codicil to the Constitution granting the VP authority to overturn one SCOTUS decision. She will not implement or enforce any policy regarding reporductive rights. She is being attacked solely for the unmitigated audacity in holding her own opinion on this matter independent of the dictates of The Sisterhood.
Hell, she’s already had her womanhood revoked by Eve Ensler.
Bush 43. Eight years of Bush 43.
I am sofa king…
To Daniel’s point, I live in Manhattan and in the heart of NYU. Sad to say, the intimidation factor is in your face on a constant basis. I would immediately invite some sort of confrontation if I had the gall to wear a McCain Palin button let alone tell anyone I am anti-Obama.
One thing I do get a kick out of, my doorman is conservative and listens to Michael Savage. I love walking into the lobby and just looking at the reactions of my liberal neighbors as they wait for the elevator with me!
As to Mary Jackson’s observation about riding the F train, I’ve been to London and ridden the tube to Cockfosters.
Mr Sefton: Did you by any chance change at Baker Street?