Bloodthirsty Liberal

Maureen Dowd

Let’s make fun of Sarah Palin and her family, those rubes from Alaska! Do you know about Alaska? That’s a place that’s really far away from New York!

The guilty pleasure I miss most when I’m out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.

So imagine my delight, my absolute astonishment, when the hokey chick flick came out on the trail, a Cinderella story so preposterous it’s hard to believe it’s not premiering on Lifetime. Instead of going home and watching “Miss Congeniality” with Sandra Bullock, I get to stay here and watch “Miss Congeniality” with Sarah Palin.

Sheer heaven.

And it goes on in this condescending way, trashing her because she isn’t New York, Cambridge… and most of all… she isn’t a Leftist:

This chick flick, naturally, features a wild stroke of fate, when the two-year governor of an oversized igloo becomes commander in chief after the president-elect chokes on a pretzel on day one.

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Then she takes off in her seaplane and lands on the White House lawn, near the new ice fishing hole and hockey rink. The “First Dude,” as she calls the hunky Eskimo in the East Wing, waits on his snowmobile with the kids — Track (named after high school track meets), Bristol (after Bristol Bay where they did commercial fishing), Willow (after a community in Alaska), Piper (just a cool name) and Trig (Norse for “strength.”)

“The P.T.A. is great preparation for dealing with the K.G.B.,” President Palin murmurs to Todd, as they kiss in the final scene while she changes Trig’s diaper. “Now that Georgia’s safe, how ’bout I cook you up some caribou hot dogs and moose stew for dinner, babe?”

I am disappointed in the media, but not surprised. I suppose I could make fun the the names the Obamas chose for their children… Malia? What’s a Malia? It doesn’t sound like Maureen or something respectable, does it? Or we could point out that the parents are tall and gawky and that Barack Hussein Obama is right up there with weird names. Or how about trashing Obama’s roots in Kenya or his Indonesian family? Can’t do that, but let’s make fun of the indigenous people in Alaska. Why not! They never complain. We only have to be respectful of people we like and understand.

Here’s the truth of the matter: The Left likes to trash women. They didn’t like Hillary because, as a middle-aged woman, she carried a few extra pounds. According to the perfect talking heads, she had a “fat ass”. They also didn’t like her pantsuits. Oh, and they didn’t like her years of experience and service. Now we find out.. surprise! surprise! that they don’t like Sarah Palin. She is too pretty. She is too feisty. She isn’t experienced enough (something that they never say about Barry, The Boy Wonder). She plays basketball, she hunts … let’s trash her!!!

I think that they just can’t stand seeing women in power.

- Aggie