Ron Rosenbaum: Sarahcuda rope-a-doped liberals

Liberal blogger Ron Rosenbaum scolds his fellow libs for being "rope-a-doped" by Sarah Palin on ObamaCare:

As a liberal myself, I was amazed by the obtuseness of the liberal reaction to Sarah Palin’s “death panels” quote. They fell into a trap because all too many were blinded by their class-conscious, snobbish disdain for Palin, who, whatever else you think of her, is one cagey operator.

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They couldn’t believe that Sarah Palin was capable of something as canny as that deadly “death panels” phrase. They couldn’t see that it was a metaphoric shorthand for something real. Instead they thought she was too dumb, that she meant it literally (to have seen the potential for rationed end-of-life care in the bill), and instead indulged in an orgy of disdain for her “crazy,” “ignorant” “lies” and malicious misrepresentation.

No! “Death panels” was a Lenny Bruce black-humored kind of line and she proved herself far hipper than the terminally square liberals who didn’t get it. And who started an ill-conceived war on the phrase which most of the country, when the facts came out, saw as meretricious or ignorant on the liberals’ part — with good reason.

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But liberals and, shamefully, liberal oriented media — most of them — made the mistake they keep making about Sarah Palin: because she didn’t go to Princeton she’s incapable of seeing or cutting to the heart of the matter so shrewdly.

Will the Left pay attention to what Rosenbaum says here and stop underestimating and demeaning her?

Not a chance. They can't help themselves. They fell into the same trap with Ronald Reagan, who played them like Itzhak Perlman's 1714-vintage Stradivarius. And our liberal friends have never been able to understand Santayana's Law.

Reaction: D.B. Light at Light Seeking Light comments:

"Ron Rosenbaum finally realizes something that a lot of us have known for some time -- that Sarah Palin is smarter..., make that a lot smarter, than her liberal critics."

- JP