Sarah Palin is the Most Recent Victim

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For the past three decades, I have been struck by liberals' (often successful) attempts to paint all conservatives as stupid. While reading "Sarah Palin Said What?" at the Huffington Post, we come upon the same tired old schtick where numerous liberals rant about the stupidity of their latest target, rants that are often rife with grammatical and spelling errors and using the worst schoolyard language.

I still have people telling me how stupid Ronald Reagan was (and Dan Quayle, and George W, etc. etc.).

I can understand that human nature causes you to demonize those with whom you disagree, and I understand the urge to boost one's own self-esteem by considering oneself smarter, better informed, and morally superior to people who are vastly more successful than oneself. But it's really difficult to watch.

Give it a break already!

Here are some of the "Craziest Palinisms" according to HuffPo:

"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where – where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border."
-- CBS interview with Katie Couric, September 25, 2008

What's wrong with that? Is this a remnant of the myth that the left won't let die where Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house, when that was actually Tina Fey doing a (very funny) caricature?

Here's another:

"So we discussed what was going on in Africa. And never, ever did I talk about, Well, gee, is it a country or is it a continent, I just don't know about this issue."
-- Fox interview with Greta Van Susteren, November 11, 2008

This is Sarah Palin discussing the myth (again perpetrated by the left) that she didn't know whether Africa was a country or a continent. Again, take someone that everybody knows (including yourself) and act as though your latest target didn't know it and viola! You're smarter than them. Please....

Another:

“Believe it or not – this was in the 60s – we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse…. Isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada.”
-- Speech in Calgary, Alberta, March 6, 2010

So it's ironic that 40 years ago Alaskans would go across the border for health care and now the Canadians do the opposite. Seems clear to me, but not if you've drank the HuffPo Kool-Aid!

"When the American people elected President Obama they gave him responsibility to handle this disaster. He promised to “heal the earth, and watch the waters recede...” or something far-fetched like that."
-- On the oil spill, May 27, 2010

Again, this seems like a very valid refudiation (ha!) of Obama's over-the-top campaign rhetoric, why is it even on this list? Oh, because anything said against Obama is crazy to the HuffPosters, unless you're attacking him for not being liberal enough (and believe it or not, they do).

“I didn’t believe the theory that human beings – thinking, loving beings – originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea. Or that human beings began as single-celled organisms that developed into monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees.”
--Going Rogue

Ok, I'll give them that one.

“With the gray Talkeetna Mountains in the distance and the first light covering of snow about to descend on Pioneer Peak, I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged splashes of the Last Frontier.”
--Going Rogue

I guess romantic and poetic means crazy to them.

To be clear, I disagree with Ms. Palin on many things, but we can do that without attacking someone's intelligence, can't we? Honestly, other than the evolution blurb above, all of those 15 "crazy comments" according to the HuffPo were either a result of misspeaking on microphone or a difference of opinion. Please folks!

Dan Quayle uses an archaic spelling for potato and they paint him as a buffoon, but Obama claims there are 59 States and gets a pass. Actually, if most liberals had ever read anything written before 1880 or so, they would have seen potato spelled "potatoe". How much do you want to bet that Dan Quayle has read more classics than your average HuffPoster?

Their genius-in-chief is lost without a teleprompter, but Palin's an intellectual lightweight because she cribs a few notes on her palm.

They're ridiculous and don't even realize it.

Mojo