Why They Hate Palin

Why They Hate Palin

Very thoughtful column by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann in the September 12, 2008 New York Post about why Democrats are venting such incredible rage on Palin:

Why do Democrats feel so threatened? They've even stopped attacking McCain and President Bush to launch a vicious and sexist barrage at her that would normally make a feminist angry and a Democrat blush.
Basically, it's this: John McCain only endangers Democratic chances of victory this November, but Sarah Palin is an existential threat to the Democratic Party.
She threatens a core element of the party's base - women.
When an African-American like Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell or Condi Rice rises to prominence as a Republican, he or she endangers the Democratic coalition. So would a Republican labor leader.
And so, above all, does the woman Republican running for vice president.
Democrats can't stomach seeing the feminist movement's impetus for greater female political participation and empowerment "hijacked" by a pro-life woman who espouses traditional values. They must obliterate her, lest her popularity eat away at their party's core.

They also point out that she is part of real America. Until a couple of years ago, Palin was a pretty typical American mother and housewife, serving on the PTA, raising kids, with a blue collar husband. Compare that to Hillary Clinton, who has always been part of the elite that pretends to be concerned about us "little people" but has never been one of us. Do you remember when Hillary Clinton put $1000 in a commodities trading account, and it mysteriously grew 100x in a year or two? Yeah, she was just lucky!