I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin: The Republicans Bring A Knife To A Gunfight, And Lose Again - Best Editorial Of The Year
by David Kahane
One of the most terrifying moments of my political life came last summer at the Republican convention in St. Paul. No, I don’t mean seeing John McCain careering around the Xcel Energy Center like Eyegore in Young Frankenstein, his face frozen in a Lon Chaney Sr. rictus grin as he reached across the aisle to his erstwhile friends in the media and got his hand bitten off. Rather, I’m referring to the aftermath of Sarah Palin’s outrageous acceptance speech, which whipped up the Rotary Club delegates into a frenzy of white-boy fury that not even heckling by a brave Code Pink embed could deter. Truly a fascist classic and one that sent shivers down our collectivist spines.
Even worse was the glaze of horror on the phizzes of the assembled heroes of the Mainstream Media. Andrea Mitchell — yes, the very same Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, whose employer saw no conflict of interest at all when she married then Fed pooh-bah Alan Greenspan — stood there gaping like a frog while the rest of the assembled Finemans and Matthewses and Olbermanns scurried around like roaches when the light gets turned on: What the hell just hit us? For one horrible moment, it looked as if the carefully crafted plans of David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, George Soros, and the Second Chief Directorate, first department, of the old KGB were about to gang agley.
Not only were we offended at the sheer effrontery of McCain’s pick: How dare the Republicans proffer this déclassée piece of Wasilla trailer trash whose only claim to fame was that she didn’t exercise her right to choose? Where were her degrees from Smith or Barnard, her internships at PETA, the Brookings Institution, or the Young Pioneers? We were also outraged that the Stupid Party had just nominated a completely unqualified candidate nobody had ever heard of, a first-term governor of Alaska whose previous experience consisted of a small-town mayoralty. As opposed to our guy, Barry Soetoro of Mombasa, Djakarta, and Honolulu, a first-term senator nobody had ever heard of, whose previous experience had been as a state senator (D., Daley Machine) in Illinois. After eight long, illegitimate, lawless years of &*^%BUSH$#@! tyranny, how dare you contest this election?
And so the word went out, from that time and place: Eviscerate Sarah Palin like one of her field-dressed moose. Turn her life upside down. Attack her politics, her background, her educational history. Attack her family. Make fun of her husband, her children. Unleash the noted gynecologist Andrew Sullivan to prove that Palin’s fifth child was really her grandchild. Hit her with everything we have: Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, taking a beer-run break from her quixotic search for Mr. Right to drip venom on Sister Sarah; post-funny comic David Letterman, to joke about her and her daughters on national television; Katie Couric, the anchor nobody watches, to give this Alaskan interloper a taste of life in the big leagues; former New York Times hack Todd “Mr. Dee Dee Myers” Purdum, to act as an instrument of Graydon Carter’s wrath at Vanity Fair. Heck, we even burned her church down. Even after the teleological triumph of The One, the assault had to continue, each blow delivered with our Lefty SneerTM (viz.: Donny Deutsch yesterday on Morning Joe), until Sarah was finished.
You know what? It worked! McCain finally succumbed to his long-standing case of Stockholm Syndrome (“My friends, you have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency”), Tina Fey turned Palin into a see-Russia-from-my-house joke, “conservative” useful idiots like Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker hatched her, and finally Sarah cried No más and walked away. If we could, we’d cut off her head and mount it on a wall at Tammany Hall, except there is no more Tammany Hall unless you count Obama’s Tony Rezko–financed home in Chicago. And it took only eight months — heck, Sarah couldn’t even have another kid in the time it took us to destroy her. That’s the Chicago way!
Yes, my friends, it’s once again time to quote Sean Connery’s famous speech from The Untouchables, written by David Mamet — the lecture the veteran Chicago cop gives a wet-behind-the-ears Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner, back when he was a movie star) while they sit in a church pew. “You want to get Capone? Here’s how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way!” If you just think of us — liberal Democrats — as Capone you’ll begin to understand what we’re up to. And we just put one of yours in the morgue.
I don’t know why I’m telling you this, but maybe now you’re beginning to understand the high-stakes game we’re playing here. This ain’t John McCain’s logrolling senatorial club any more. This is a deadly serious attempt to realize the vision of the 1960s and to fundamentally transform the United States of America. This is the fusion of Communist dogma, high ideals, gangster tactics, and a stunning amount of self-loathing. For the first time in history, the patrician class is deliberately selling its own country down the river just to prove a point: that, yes, we can! This country stinks and we won’t be happy until we’ve forced you to admit it.
In other words, stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely a political party, because it’s much more than that. We’re not just the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition. Not just the party of Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Richard J. Croker, Bull Connor, Chris Dodd, Richard Daley, Bill Ayers, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Emperor Barack Hussein Obama II. Not just the party of Kendall “Agent 202” Myers, the State Department official recruited as a Cuban spy along with his wife during the Carter administration. Rather, think of the Democratic Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.
If you had any sense, you would start using our tactics against us. After all, you have a few lawyers on your side. Sue us. File frivolous ethics complaints against all our elected officials until, like Sarah, they go broke from defending themselves. (David Paterson would be a good place to start.) Challenge the constitutionality of BO2’s legion of fill-in-the-blank czars — none of whom have to be confirmed, or even pass a security check. (Come to think of it, neither did Barry.) Let slip your own journalistic dogs of war, assuming you have any, to find Barry’s birth certificate, his college transcripts, whether he applied to Occidental as a foreign student, and on which passport he traveled in 1981 to Pakistan with his friend Wahid Hamid, for starters.
You might also want to think about interviewing New York literary agent Jane Dystel, who a) contacted the totally unknown Obama in the wake of an adulatory New York Times piece in 1990 and b) got him a $125,000 advance for a memoir that c) he couldn’t write, even after a long sojourn in Bali, which d) got the contract canceled, whereupon e) Dystel got him $40,000 from another publisher, following which f) the book finally came out to glowing reviews and g) Obama fired her. Wouldn’t she have an interesting story to tell?
Of course, you won’t. You’re too nice, too enamored of history and tradition to realize that the rules have changed. Remember, I live and work in a town where, “Hello, he lied,” isn’t a joke; we men of the Left are perfectly comfortable lying, cheating, and stealing — hello, Senator Franken! — in order to attain and keep political power. Not for nothing is one of our mottos, “By Any Means Necessary.” You see, we’re the good guys, and for us the ends always justify the means. We are, literally, shameless, which is why Bill Clinton is now a multi-millionaire and Eliot Spitzer is already on the comeback trail.
In Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, “the fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.” This is the book that “Reset” Rodham (what ever happened to her?) and BHO II grew up reading and continue to live by. If you don’t understand that that’s the way we see you — as the enemy — then you’re too dumb to survive. Remember that for us politics is not just an avocation, or even just a job, but our life. We literally stay awake nights thinking up ways to screw you. And one of the ways we do that is by religiously observing Alinsky’s Rule No. 4.
Did Sarah stand for “family values”? Flay her unwed-mother daughter. Did she represent probity in a notoriously corrupt, one-family state? Spread rumors about FBI investigations. Did she speak with an upper-Midwest twang? Mock it relentlessly on Saturday Night Live. Above all, don’t let her motivate the half of the country that doesn’t want His Serene Highness to bankrupt the nation, align with banana-republic Communist dictators, unilaterally dismantle our missile defenses, and set foot in more mosques than churches since he has become president. We’ve got a suicide cult to run here.
And that’s why Sarah had to go. Whether she understood it or not, she threatened us right down to our most fundamental, meretricious, elitist, sneering, snobbish, insecure, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders bones. She was, after all, a “normal” American, the kind of person (or so I’m told) you meet in flyover country. The kind that worries first about home and hearth and believes in things like motherhood and love of country the way it is, not the way she wants to remake it.
What you clowns need, in other words, is a Rules for Radical Conservatives to explain what you’re up against and teach you how to compete before it’s too late. Luckily, since I care about money even more than I care about politics, I have just such a book in the proposal stage, currently making the rounds of various publishers, assuming any of them are wise enough to take me up on it.
And, yes, this time it really is personal.
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WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA!!
Great! Except for one thing — there are no “men of the left”. But only because there are no actual real men on the left. I have known plenty of people who were liberal and looked like men, but were politically left wing and couldn’t even change a tire, or stand up their wives or girlfriends.
Brilliant
This was spot-on.
So in other sign that we live in Bizarro world. How is it that Conservatives — minus the lawyers and lefties — would fight a war with complete abandon, but wouldn’t do that politically?
Why does the GOP sit there and take this? Where is the counterattack? Where is the will to fight back.
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and got in probably 100 street fights. And after a good-butt kicking one time my dad said to me: “You win fights like this — you start punching and you don’t stop until someone breaks it up. You don’t let up and give them a chance.”
My grandma told me that she could hear me all the way down the street bossing all the kids around and telling everyone what to do! She said I was relentless and they listened to me.
I just emailed the article to TIME.
Think they’ll print it?
lol
Great article.
This is just another stupid act of our Prez.
Obama made a deal with Russia to reduce nuclear arms in exchange for them to buy more hamburger.. what a freeking joke he is.
The checked pants old GOP guard will never let someone they don’t have complete control over into a real position of power…..that’s why there’s no response!!
They’ve thrown her under the bus….where was the slush fund to defend her during all these non stop investigations??? Do you really think the old duffers on the hill pay for their on defense??
It’s time for a show of force from the right…..maybe a million man “armed” march ! The air in Washington would be heavy with the smell of “shitpants”.
Remember what John Voight said. What we will do, will be done legally-and morally. Engage the enemy with weapons of honor, nothing less.
Engaging an enemy who has no shame and no honor and no morals and no bounds and no decency with WEAPONS of HONOR will only result in being able to say” WE LOST, BUT AT LEAST WE FOUGHT FAIR”.
All due respect, but WE SIR are at WAR, thus far ideological, but war nonetheless with an enemy who will NOT hesitate at anything and who feels the END JUSTIFIES ANY MEANS NECESSARY to inflict harm upon us.. our country.. and our constitution.
I do not feel I am being overdramatic in this assessment.
There is no FAIR FIGHTING in a war, there is only winning or losing.
The MOST AGGRESSIVE COMBATANT SETS THE PACE IN ANY CONTEST. MATCH AND EXCEED THIS PACE Or YOU WILL LIKELY LOSE.
THE HONOR TO BE HAD IS SAVING YOUR COUNTRY.
How bloody DISHONORABLE to lose the USA to outright criminals because we wouldn’t gouge an eye or bite off a nose, metaphorically(thus far) speaking.
This” fight fair” complaint is one used AGAINST THE MINUTEMEN, AS THEY USED GUERILLA TACTICS VS. THE REDCOATS.The Minutemen wanted to win, and wouldn’t let their enemies lure them into such silly traps.
If youre getting your ass kicked fighting w/ Queensbury rules because your opponent uses back alley basics then you have no one to blame but yourself.
Honor in fighting is for the boxing ring,but this aint no SPORT. This is the real world for all the marbles.
WAKE UP..YOU MAY NOT HAVE CHOSEN THIS REALITY BUT IT IS yours to contend with NONTHELESS.
Save the soul searching and self flagellation for later.
We should engage the enemy exactly how they engage us (in my humble opinion) because the enemy cannot understand anything else and it would be foolish to be noble and decent hoping for results.
I believe the time for what was once called “rat fucking” has returned.
All due respect to John Voight and Vince … but the only way to make sure the other guy fights fair is to be capable (and willing) of fighting so dirty the other guy is afraid to go there. How else has the US kept CBW off the battlefield?
After fighting, losing and being in a lot of pain one day.
My Dad told me “the other guy is in a lot of pain too”.
I never lost a fight after that.
I always thought I was the only one who was hurting, because the other guy didnt show it.
So when someone gives me a verbal shot or other, I give one back. Harder.
Liberals ALWAYS expect their argument to win, without question. When you dont back down and give facts, they get angry and walk away.
When THEY are angry you have won.
… yeah, but in the midst of all the piss-ass bickering, we’re losing our country. we’re in the middle of something larger than a school yard squabble … voters who haven’t got a vested interest in the country’s future are now in the majority … property owners — many of whom have mindlessly voted for the socialist solution — will now see their property taxed into oblivion.
… always remember, socialism is not equal opportunity, but equal outcomes … the results determined by unelected czars.
… America … R.I.P.
One thing is for sure, the article mentions the epic Constitutional Crisis our country faces, all the while those in a position of power to deal with it cower in fear:
“Let slip your own journalistic dogs of war, assuming you have any, to
find Barry’s birth certificate, his college transcripts, whether he applied to Occidental as a foreign student, and on which passport he traveled in 1981 to Pakistan with his friend Wahid Hamid, for starters. ”
Not only is it astounding the damage Barry is doing to our country…he’s doing it while NOT being Constitutionally qualified to boot.
I’m with lastconservativeblackmanonearth. I couldn’t have said it any better. And you are not the last…there are plenty in Texas my good man!!! Also, I refuse to give up on America. Just like I refuse to give up on the Great State of Texas. We have some good men and women in Texas fighting against socialism. The funny thing to me is most of people that are backing all of this mess don’t own property, have money put away for retirement, etc. Either that or they really don’t read between the lines!!! Watch out America…they are trying to take a hard left into socialism. UGG!!!
First-class rant. I just discovered Pat’s blog via his excellent post “Notes from a Cop.” Pat has great chops and we do in fact need a conservative version of The Art of War. I look forward to reading it. One suggestion: post the first chapter online and generate some buzz.
P.S. I wrote a couple of things on Palin too at bluecollarprof.com, one of which deals with what may be a clash of mass movements the way Pat describes things in “Notes from a Cop.” Interesting times lie ahead.
“This is the fusion of Communist dogma, high ideals, gangster tactics, and a stunning amount of self-loathing.”
So on point it hurts.
Now that is satire.
Great stuff indeed.
Whoever the writer David Kahane (pseudonym) really is, you rock man.
Why would anyone be a republican? Gutless fuckups. Not who I want to go to war with. I will street fight anyone of these quitters. In fact I would love to bitch slap mccain,rove,arnold,collins,and all the rest of these non Americans. We should be used to this by now. Socialist run the gop. We need to re-group. Quick. I guess more ammo will be needed.
… maybe the time is right for me to get this off my chest:
republicans have been losing elections because many in the ranks *have* been morally unprincipled. and add to that, a dose of laziness and ‘publicity envy’ (as evidenced by attempting to ‘out-democrat’ the democrats with ‘me-too’ politics), and presto-chango, you end up with the ’show’ being stolen by a street-corner charlatan.
now, for the kicker: maybe this dosen’t apply to readers of this website, but ‘bro bama’ was elected primarily due to absolution-seeking, buttermilk-sucking whites, who sold their national inheritance for a false promise of ‘racial’ forgiveness. by size and scope, this transfer of wealth now occurring in the U.S. has no historical parallel.
white man, wake up and read the tea leaves: muslims will never get along with jews … pakistanis will never get along with indians … and black africans will never get along with white europeans.
it was only by your stubborn refusal to teach your children about the beauty and bounty of this country called America, that you allowed this to happen. in other words, you became fat and lazy.
think I’m wrong? well, tell it to Barry Goldwater: “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance”. somebody ain’t been payin their dues.
I write this with a good measure of anger and disgust.
lcbmonearth-You have it right on. Written like Thomas Sowell. Who imho should be President. Stupid,ignorant self absorbed white people should be put in chains and shipped to Antarctica.
Sitting on our hands expecting some other person to take charge ain’t going to work. It’s long past the time we stood up together as Americans and tell these freeloaders, whiners and leftist fantasy fairies to sit down and shut up.
Being reactive and on the defense is exactly what the left hopes we will do. It’s the game they play well.
It’s time for the few, the remnant, the ACTIVE to take our country back with all the means available to us.
Time is not on our side. It never is in a war and you can damn sure bet we are at war. Make no mistake.
I agree.
After 28 years of voting straight-ticket Republican in every election, I’m now an Independent; conservative Independent, that is.
I’m tired of the Republican party taking my vote for granted and continuing to nominate wishy-washy war heroes for President like “it’s my turn” Bob “banana” Dole or “nice guys finish last” John McCain.
The only reason Bush junior was able to win was because his dad is a senior member of the Establishment and pulled lots of strings, no doubt, to get it done.
If the Republican party wants my vote in the future, they are going to have to earn it with real conservatives on the ballot; otherwise, I’m staying home, because in the end, with someone like Dole or McCain, you get the same thing anyway, just more slowly.
BTW, the third parties will not get my vote, because they can’t win under any circumstances.
Great logic there.
Get your way or stay home?
No vote is still a vote.
Give us some way to know who you are other than “Anon” so we can count you out of anything that requires defense.
Sully,
For my entire life I dreamed of what great things could be accomplished if only conservative Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate along with a conservative President to back them up.
Well, we finally got it with Bush, but what did they do with that long-sought power? Instead of making real changes and turning back the worst aspects of Socialist Democrat policies over the last 50 years, they turned to the old Democrat strategy of pork-barreling; hoping to use that to buy the votes they needed to stay at the top of the heap in Washington for 40 years.
Worse yet, the ones who should have been setting the agenda in Washington, like Newt Gingrich and others, turned to adultery and divorced their wives in flagrant disregard for all of the “morality” they had been preaching previously.
Worse yet, other Republicans were convicted of corruption, or going after congressional pages for homosexual sex, or soliciting homosexual sex in men’s airport restrooms, and it just never seemed to end. So much for counting on politicians to practice what they preach.
But what really annoys me is the fact that Republicans, once they get into power, don’t really do anything about returning America to the model of less government that we used to have. All that they can do is to put the brakes on and not go any further to the Left for a while. Of course, Bush Junior blew that apart with his strategy more Homeland Security, more Medicare, etc, etc.
Religious conservatives begged the Republican Congress and Senate to pass a Constitutional Amendment against Homosexual marriage while they had the chance to actually do something about it back in 2004-2005, but did they? No, they didn’t have time to do that, and now look what we have: state after state is passing homosexual marriage into law, and now there’s not a thing that we can do to stop it. It is too late. The Republican Congress and Senate of Bush’s 2nd term let us down big-time by refusing to do the right thing when they had the chance. Homosexual marriage in the United States is now only a matter of time, because the people we counted on to stop it legislatively failed in their responsibilities to the ones who elected them.
Clearly, there is no real benefit to electing a Republican to any office, because just putting the brakes on for a while until the people get tired of Republicans and want to elect “change”, and then the charge to the Left begins all over again, makes it a useless exercise. As far as I’m concerned, America is lost. Let the Democrats have the US, and let God’s judgment fall on this wicked place. It isn’t worth saving anymore.
It is our fault. We must take responsibility. We the People kept voting these WHORES in office. We the People talk, but don’t act.
Voting for a third party is not wasting a vote,that is what the two parties want us to believe. Glenn Beck made a good point,The people in PA would not vote for the Constitutional Party candidate running against Arlen Spector because they did not want to waste their vote,well they wasted their vote by voting for Spector.
Pretty sad story.
Think you might play center field that way too?
Batter hits the ball and you sit down and cry?
THERE’S NO CRYING IN POLITICS!
Now cowboy up m`fucker.
Nice grouping Sully.
“the laugh is on you”
you’re living in virtuality, there ain’t any laugh, just written words
as so for persons advocating force & movements,
that’s just wild grooses snorings that believe that they show their nuts
Anon. You want to put the blame where it belongs? Try snivelling whiners like you who go around crying about what this politician does or doesn’t do or what that politician does or doesn’t do.
The people elect these worthless POS to office and then sit on their asses crying that the body politic isn’t doing what they want.
It’s up to the people to MAKE them do what we want.
With your defeatist attitude we might as well all just curl up in a corner and die.
You know what makes a winner? A person who gets knocked down time and again and then gets back up each and every time and goes at it until he/she wins. Winners do not give up.
Your defeatist attitude makes me sick. The fact that you use “Anon” as your handle tells me all I need to know about you. And you know I don’t even care what your name is. You are pathetic.
Good for you, Don Quixote.
LMAO, WTF Anon is as valid as a sully
That’s right Anon. Get over it. Man up.
Anon’s entitled to his opinion but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with it nor does it mean I have sit idly by and let it go unchallenged.
Have a good laugh cocorico…the laugh is on you.
The only moral imperative in war is total victory.
- Pat Dollard
Oh I forgot, the Republican Congress did do some really important stuff, like making “pronouncements” about people that lived and died long ago, giving awards to old veterans, and declaring certain “days” in honor of Iforgotwho.
Alito and Roberts are saving are asses
Some may still not get it … Sarah knows what is going on… So she is taking the fight to them…Just wait & see…Actually she took a page out the rules for radicals…
Pat: I recently read Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals” that the Left is using as their war manual and your right this is a war. All of the same motives for fighting against Japan and Hitler are evident here also. I don’t need to list them here but suffice it to say we are in a battle for our freedom. I have been advocating for Conservatives to arm themselves with the facts. To battle the lies and re-framing of ideas that the Left has become so good at. I believe that the war can be won that way if, we were getting a fair shot in the MSM. What I’m afraid of is that the MSM will demonize our Radical tactics, should we take up that banner. Sounds Corny but, I believe that the truth, presented well, can and will win the day.
The Left has powerful allies that we just cannot overcome unless we burn them to the ground and that is the MSM. I have not figured out how to remove that obstacle. Any ideas on that topic as it will be absolutely necessary to our fight I believe?
To use their own words “Get in their face!”
Luckily for us, she’s not dead and we’re armed.
We will engage this enemy buy anymeans necessary. Get ready to Roll America!
Fill the whores with c-4 , the dark knight, ring a bell.