The Pathology of the Palin-Haters

Weekend Pundit may be on to something:

It's been just shy of a year since the 2008 elections, Barack Obama has been in office for a little over nine months, and what are those on the Left and the Right talking about?

Sarah Palin.

For someone part of the losing presidential ticket last year, she's been getting a lot of attention.

The Left is still apoplectic about her, wishing nothing more that she'd go away and fade into obscurity. Their hatred of her is almost pathological, with so many of them trying their best to destroy her...

And there we see the conundrum of the Palin haters. They want Sarah Palin to go away, yet they can't stop talking about her. The only way to make someone go away is to ignore that person. But Democrats and Vichy Republicans can't bring themselves to do that. Ergo, that's not "almost pathological" -- that's pathological.

Despite the Left's machinations, Palin has survived manufactured scandal, personal attacks against her, personal attacks against her family, bogus ethics complaints (everyone was found to be without merit), disparaging remarks about her education (she didn't graduate from an Ivy League school, but at least her transcripts are open to the public), lack of experience (How many states did Obama run before he became President?), and an endless list of complaints from a number of less than honorable leftist organizations because she's not a neo-fascist feminist, baby-aborting, agnostic/atheist, hire-the-nanny-to-raise-the-kids, career comes first modern woman.

Palin's survival has frustrated the Left (and the inside-the-Beltway Right) to no end.

Americans love fighters, and they love survivors. That's why the "Rocky" motion pictures and the "Survivor" television series have both been so wildly successful. And Sarah palin has proved that she is both a fighter and a survivor. No wonder her political enemies have such a pathological fear and loathing of her.

Freed from the specious and endless ethics complaints being filed by a small but well supported group of Democrat activists in Alaska, she can now move about and speak freely about topics local, national, and international.

And that's what Sarah Palin is doing. After a two-week hiatus, she returned to Facebook last night with two more of her signature op-eds, one on Afghanistan and another on energy security.

And then there's her book Going Rogue. On pre-release sales alone it leaped to the top of the sales charts at the Big Three book retailers, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders. Palin-haters now find themselves in the ludicrous position of attacking a memoir which they haven't read. Not having read it, all they can do is claim that she didn't write it. But Sarah Palin has been up front about the fact that she, just like most every other political figure who writes a book, had the help of a co-author. By pounding on the "she didn't write it" meme, the anti-Palin forces have only drawn more attention to the question of who wrote Barack Obama's books. 

How much more pathological can they get? Stay tuned...

- JP