So, criticizing Governor Palin is sexist, and a rich elite woman calls Obama an elitist because...why?
It would piss me off, if only it weren't so comically stupid.
Send in the clowns. More in detail, after the jump.
WHAT RESPECT, SARAH?
When Sarah Palin was announced as the choice for John McCain’s running mate, my initial impression was one that I think a lot of people shared.
That impression being, "The hell is that?"
Who is this woman, this Governor of Alaska, who apparently doesn’t know "what the VP does every day?"
I’ve had 22 days to figure it out, and it turns out that she’s Dick Cheney’s younger sibling. It’s all there—the love of rifles and killing animals, the lying, the secrecy, the stonewalling, the kowtowing to oil interests...
And the funny thing is, this is the woman that John McCain thought would complicate matters with Barack Obama, vis-à-vis disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters.
Let’s be honest—this wasn’t done to appease PUMA’s. It was done to appease the fundamentalist conservatives of the Religious Right; the ones who would have torched the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul had McCain chose Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge. And, in an amazing turnabout, it's Palin that is now the main draw on the ticket.
If McCain shows up to a rally and Palin isn’t in tow, people don’t care. They want to see the shiny object with the folksy pseudo-Norwegian accent explain policy in circular logic. They desire to hear her incoherent ranting on energy policy. They love her explanation of her foreign policy credibility that "Russia is visible from land in Alaska". Even though Moscow, where the government of Russia actually is, is about 4360 miles away from the state capitol in Anchorage.
Of course, the conservatives started in immediately playing the sexism card with anyone who dared challenge the lack of policy skills that Palin would need in order to invoke the 25th Amendment, if need be, and take over the nation’s top job. Thus, making the last paragraph a sexist one, according to them.
This, coming from a group of people who for years have made almost every sexist joke under the sun—in private and on the airwaves—and continue to do so to this day. How does anyone take seriously the Republican faux-outrage over sexism, when they produce bumper stickers and buttons that call Palin, a married woman with five kids, a VPILF, or "the hot chick"?
Here we have another paradox of reverse logic, as it concerns the Republicans: if you’re anyone who challenges Sarah Palin’s obvious lack of bona fides, you’re an evil, devout sexist.
If you’re a Republican, and put a bumper sticker on your car that suggests you might want to bang her, you’re a committed Christian who puts their Country First.
You stay classy there, you Republicans.
WHEN ELITISTS ATTACK
So if that weren’t enough, now we have Lynn Forester de Rothschild calling Obama out on his "elitism". She wrote a concern troll falme op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal today, basically explaining why she, as a rich, white woman with millions of dollars in her bank account, cannot support Obama because [insert Republican Talking Point and/or Lie Here].
Talk about a pot calling a kettle.
Ms. Rothschild is, quite frankly, the Commander-in-Chief of the "Party Unity My Ass" (or as I like to call it, "Panties Up...")—the ever-shrinking group of women who vowed, after the Fall of Hillary, that they would never support Obama for president, and would vote for John McCain.
And then McCain...picks Princess Mooseburger.
So now the PUMA’s are down to: people who don’t know what to do, people who are forced to vote Obama, and people who may not vote, period.
But fear not, PUMA undecideds: the PUMA C-i-C has spoken!
In spite of his lofty liberal rhetoric, Mr. Obama is not connecting to millions of middle- and working-class voters, as well as women voters of all classes. Not only is his legislative record scant on issues that make a difference in their lives, but his current campaign is based mainly on an assumption of his transcendence.
Despite Mr. Obama's assertions that his campaign is about "you," much of his campaign is, in fact, all about him. In the months since the primaries ended, his creation and display of a mock presidential seal with his name on it, his speech at a mass rally at the Prussian Victory Column in Berlin, and his insistence on delivering his acceptance speech in front of fabricated Greek columns in a stadium holding 80,000 chanting supporters have crossed the thin line that separates galvanizing voters and plain old demagoguery.
In this context, it should come as no surprise that Sarah Palin, mother of five, hockey mom turned governor and maverick reformer, would instantly zero in on the inherent weakness in Mr. Obama's candidacy, and contrast it with her own compelling life story.
It is ironic that the candidate who comes from a more privileged background -- John McCain -- can genuinely point to at least one crucial moment in his life when elitism went by the boards. Because John McCain's father was a high-ranking Navy Admiral, he was offered freedom from a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. He refused, saying that he would leave only when every prisoner who had been captured before him was also released. --LYNN FORESTER DE ROTHSCHILD, The Wall Street Journal, Democrats Need to Shake The 'Elitist' Tag, Sept. 21, 2008.
Shorter Op-Ed Piece:
Obama’s a damned Negro elitist, with no experience, and...oh, my did you see those columns at his speech? The audacity, indeed. How dare he do such a thing, hmph!
Now Sarah Palin; there’s someone who can relate to the redneck working class and women in this country. Why, indeed—she’s the perfect fit for McCain. After all, even though he’s got seven—no, eight houses, you must understand: for five and one-half years, he never lived in even one house. He was a POW, damn it!
[I can has Maverick Points now, John?]
It’s quite the comedy that a woman named Lynn Forester de Rothschild; she of the Rothschild Banking Family—an international banking dynasty—is calling Barack Obama and the rest of her "fellow Democrats" elitists. I mean, really. I’m supposed to take this woman seriously, when she was one of Clinton’s biggest money bundlers? She’s got millions of dollars in an offshore bank account (allegedly), while she jet-sets first class to London, and transfers to a limo to Buckinghamshire with her hoity-toity, one-off royalty husband of hers, and I’m supposed to think she’s the spokeswoman for the working class.
Again, the paradox of reverse logic applies: if you’re Obama, and you work as hard as he did to defeat a political dynasty in an open race for the Democratic nomination, you’re an elitist, because one rich white woman says so, and isn’t going to vote for you.
Meanwhile, this same rich woman supports a ticket that openly patronizes her support for her candidate, and goes against every issue that candidate Clinton supported.
This only tells me one thing: Rothschild only wanted Clinton to win--and now wants Palin to win, not so much McCain—all for the reason that Rothschild only wants to see a woman in power. The actual issues that matter to Clinton? So what? Rothschild’s got a carafe of money, she couldn’t care less. What ails the middle-class in this country, she's got easy solutions for...in her wallet.
Roe v. Wade gets overturned? No problem; Rothschild can catch a flight to wherever it’s legal, and get ‘er done.
Equal pay? She’s got more money than half the "working class" she feigns to defend.
Universal Healthcare? Why bother with the rest of us? As long as she’s covered.
Mortgages? What mortgage? She’s practically a royal!
Gas prices? What, she worries?
Taxes? Oh, there we are! She doesn’t want to give the American government one more thin $1,000 bill she doesn’t have to.
So now that we’ve gotten to the real issue, here, Ms. Rothschild; about why you won’t support Obama—your taxable income, that is—could you start being honest about it? We here in the working class are so waiting for your answer.
Or, we could just assume you’re a bigot with a crapload of money.
Either way, we'd like to know the truth.