Why Hate Palin?

I was watching Fox news this morning. They were speaking to two people about the amount of money the two presidential campaigns had to spend. One of the people they spoke to is named Matt Littman. His title is Obama Supporter. He stated several unfounded assertions during the course of the interview. One thing he said was that the McCain campaign had $400+ million to spend over the last two months on the campaign. He surmised that some may get spent on this or that, but the one thing he said was that some may get spent on Sarah Palin's clothes. EXCUSE ME? Since when were the spending of money on candidates clothing ever previously brought up until we have a woman in the running? Do we know how much is spent on Michelle Obama's clothing? Does her clothing expenditure come from the political campaign? She isn't even running. But I bet her clothes are paid for from the campaign because she speaks in Barack's behalf. No one is bringing up the issue concerning her. Still, why is this an issue at all? Do the democratic supporters have nothing better to bring up? Are they THAT worried about Palin? People who harp on this issue are either uninformed about the truth (that she doesn't keep the clothes) or are small minded.

My husband gave me an article to read from the Wall Street Journal called Hatin' Palin. Author Daniel Henninger begins the article by saying that "The abuse being heaped on Sarah Palin is such a cheap shot." He continues, "The complaint against the Alaska governor, at its most basic, is that she doesn't qualify for admission to the national political fraternity. Boy, that's rich. Behold the shabby frat house that says it's above her pay grade.

"Congress has the lowest approval rating ever registered in the history of polling (12%!)."

"The stoning of Sarah Palin has exposed enough cultural fissures in American politics to occupy strategists full-time until 2012. We now see there is a left-to-right elite centered in New York, Washington, Hollywood and Silicon Valley who hand down judgments of the nation's mortals from their perch atop the Bell Curve." (For the full text, look on the Wall Street Journal's web site. The article is from October 23, 2008 in the Opinion section)

I love this summary. Sarah Palin reaches out to and connects with ordinary individuals like ourselves. She buys diapers. I'll bet she changes diapers too. She does things that ordinary individuals do, while thinking intelligently. That is why people like her. And that is why Obama and supporters fear her. I look forward to Sarah Palin in the White House.