It’s Come to This.
July 9, 2009
I’m quoting Queen Ann:
Sarah Palin has deeply disappointed her enemies. People who hate her guts feel she’s really let them down by resigning.
She’s like the ex-girlfriend they’re SO over, never want to see again, have already forgotten about — really, it’s O-ver — but they just can’t stop talking about her.
Liberal: Ha, ha … Sarah who? She’s over, she’s toast, a future Trivial Pursuit answer, nothing more.
Normal person: Whatever. How about the North Korean missiles?
Liberal: Can you believe she just resigned the governorship like that? What a quitter!
Normal person: Speaking of quitting, how’s work?
Liberal: Did you hear she might get a TV show? There’s no way Sarah Palin’s getting a TV show! No way! I can’t believe stupid Sarah Palin could get her own stupid TV show now. Well, I’m sure not gonna watch it — that’s for sure!
Normal person: Have you seen all the Michael Jackson coverage on TV?
Liberal: How does she think she can run for president in 2012 if she can’t finish her term as governor of a Podunk state? She’s finished.
Normal person: OK, then! You won’t have to vote for her.
Liberal: I was never going to vote for her! But now I’m not going to vote for her twice. And I will never watch her TV show. I am so over her.
Reporters had already written their stories on Palin’s press conference — “rambling!” “incoherent!” — before she even stepped to the podium.
Whatever you think of Palin, her argument for resigning was the opposite of “rambling” and “incoherent.”
Palin’s basketball analogy couldn’t have been clearer, even to prissy liberal pundits who get uncomfortable when the subject turns to sports: She decided to destroy the other team’s game plan, which has been to obsessively focus on her, by resigning.
This is particularly apt here — she’s passing the ball to a fantastic right-wing lieutenant governor, who shares her principles but doesn’t set off the left’s neuroses.
This is better for him, better for the state, better for the conservative program and better for Palin personally, whose family is sick of all the crap. Now she can make a lot of money and promote conservatism on a national stage.
It certainly won’t be held against Palin by people who don’t already loathe her. (On the other hand, her approval ratings among people who think she’s worse than Hitler are down to 48 percent.)
It happened at CPAC 2008, too—when Ann and I were the only conservative Hillary supporters in Washington. I never thought I’d end up agreeing with Coulter multiple times, but anything can happen in this world.
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July 9th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I think much, if not most, of the dislike of Coulter among conservatives is that the left screams so much about her. The people that spent eight years screeching “Bushitler!” and ‘Cheney should be executed!” while wearing Buck Fush T-shirts cried that Ann is putting out hate speech!
So, too many conservatives said “we can’t have anyone on our side writing hate speech” instead of reading what she has to say. And now it is fashionable to dislike Coulter. Truth is, you might as well like her, the left is going to hate you anyway.
Ms. Coulter isn’t perfect. Neither am I and, alas, neither are you. So I’ll side with Ann, she has proven that she is siding with me.
July 10th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Whatever ethics complaints process Alaska has, it is apparently too vulnerable to abuse.
I think a requirement for the complaintant to be an eyewitness to wrongdoing, and to make their complaint under oath, would help matters.