C. Edmund Wright: Hating Sarah

At American Thinker, C. Edmund Wright observes that Sarah Palin doesn't simply appeal to the (conservative) base. Much more than that, he says, The Arctic Fox is someone who can make the base appeal to America.

Recognizing that quality in the former Alaska governor, the political left and its trained media attack dogs hate her for it, and they are engaged in an obsessive campaign to destroy her. Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS) has, at least in the world that liberals and the media live in, gone pandemic:

The persistence and even growth of Palin's popularity and impact on the national discussion now makes unavoidable the reality of the elitists' worst fear: that there are more of us than there are of them. And we now realize it.

As many have correctly pointed out, the pundits' vitriol and patronizing comments smack of a hatred and anger that only thinly veils the real emotion underlying their irrational behavior: Fear. Part of it is fear that she will indeed hold public office again. But it goes even deeper than that.

It is an increasing awareness that Palin's impact is much more than a strong advocacy of conservatism as a sound political philosophy. These people are now finding it hard to escape the reality that her life is a compelling and real advocacy of conservatism as a powerful life philosophy. Life trumps politics.

And once the casual voter has related to Palin's life philosophy as something that is true, practical and worth adopting, they are dead to liberalism forever. They will never again believe in "the electability" of moderates like McCain and never again fall prey to a "clean articulate black man" with a good tele-prompter.

Read the full Wright diagnosis of the Liberal-Media Complex's full-blown Stage II PDS affliction at American Thinker.

- JP