Good input so far guys.
I can see my question got a few of your panties a little bunched up but it was an honest curiousity question.
The posts earlier and last night have given me a lot of insight in to both side's mindset on Palin.
I can dig that she comes across as a "normal" person and that she is proud to be a conservative, add that to the non-stop attacks on her by the media and now I get why people are fired up enough to defend her.
I'm still a little hazy on why people want to tear her down. What I can gather so far from this thread is that people just dont like what she stands for, they dont like that a lot of other people LOVE what she stands for, and she has national political aspirations. This scares people who disagree with her values and I think thats why they are adamant about attacking her.
If i am wrong please correct me.
I can tell you exactly why the people on the left hate her and that's because they fear her.
She relates to middle of the road- fiscally conservative Americans and they relate to her. She has not lived a life of the wealthy, pedigree, elitist, did not graduate from Harvard or Yale, she and her husband were small business before she entered politics, they are parents. That's like most of us out here in middle America, we identify with her because she has in her recent past lived a life much like our own. She understands us, our lives and our concerns, because she has lived it.
The pedigree elitists do not, which is evident with the legislation they are pushing right now on health care. They are arrogant, self-worshiping politicians who live in the white ivory tower, never getting their hands dirty, telling the rest of us how to live our lives, taking more and more of our hard earned money. Their goal, is power, they want to be the RULING class and they want to do it in America. They are as addicted to power as the drug addict is to cocaine, meth and heroin, they have a constant and powerful need to fill up their egos.
BTW- conservative women, not just Palin are attacked all the time, look what happened, (I forget her name) Miss America who was stripped of her title for her answer on gay marriage, she has been viciously attacked by the left, Michelle Bauchman is another. If you are a conservative women, you need to have very thick skin, because the left is gunnin for you and they will use anything to get to you including attacking your children, should you have any. They are classless and clueless people and nothing, nothing is beneath them.