And that woman ‘beyond all choice’ will be Governor Sarah Palin!

Tonight I caught part of the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News. O’Reilly was trying to make a news item out of recent Sarah Palin public events where she has met with several international foreign leaders. He suggested that somehow her not wanting to take questions from the “friendly media” after these events somehow spoke to her inexperience and that this was some sort of on the job training.

One of Bill’s guests was Dr. Caroline Heldman. It was quite obvious that Caroline despised Governor Palin. She thought that it was “unprecedented that we have vice presidential candidate who is essentially getting job training during the campaign, she’s not ready for prime time”. Caroline had contempt for Governor Palin because she didn’t study at elite institutions and only got her passport last year and she added that “She is the least qualified Vice Presidential Candidate we’ve ever had.” Somehow her experience as a Mayor and Governor, and her education at the University of Idaho were somehow insufficient.

I wondered what kinds of qualifications she was talking about? What are the qualifications to be President? I couldn’t understand why she felt such vile contempt for Governor Palin. Then it dawned on me, Caroline wasn’t criticizing what she saw in Governor Palin. It was seeing Governor Palins success that would somehow sap Carolines cognitive functioning. Dr Heldman was suffering from some sort of “double consciousness” a self-objectification state where she was measuring her own life through what she perceived would be Governor Palins opinion of her.

It was in the ‘Aftermath’ of the interview that I saw that Dr Heldman suffered from low self-esteem and Governor Palins mere existence drove that esteem even lower. The Governors very existence would appear to be the antithesis of every value Dr Heldman holds dear (if you can call them values). Governor Palin stands for life, personally and politically, she lives as an example of personal responsibility, and believes in God. Dr. Caroline Heldman is an angry feminist liberal who is a master of Ulda Kwon Do or the “The art of kicking and screaming”. Here’s a clip of the good doctor here, she’s the wild eyed vixen in the center:

So why do they hate her so? It’s probably because of all the reasons we like her. Reproduced below is an article by Victor Davis Hanson from the National Review, Why Do We Like Palin?

Much has been written why Palin both brings strength to the McCain ticket and is a gamble at the same time. Why then the growing wave of popular sentiment in her favor?

Various reasons, but one I think is that millions of Americans are simply tired of being lectured at by smug elites. Jetting Al Gore made tens of millions finger-pointing at us about our global warming. Obama’s America, apparently unlike Rev. Wright’s Trinity Church, is a cruel, downright mean and dysfunctional place. John Kerry’s United States is one of the half-educated in need of Ivy-League enlightenment and tutorials.

So along comes someone (unlike Biden’s vastly inflated middle-class biography) who really is from the working class. She likes it—and finds snowmobiling, hunting, fishing and living in small-town America not as a wasteful use of carbon-emitting fuels, cruelty to animals, gratuitous depletion of our resources, or proof of parochial yokelism. Instead it is a life of action in an often harsh natural landscape, where physical strength is married to intelligence to bring us food, fuel, and progress.

Palin’s symbolism is the antithesis of the metrosexual wind- or body- surfing politican, and hair-plugged, neurotic TV pundit So at this time, right now, millions apparently like Palin’s atypical 19th-century profile. Again, it’s a pleasant change of pace from Harvard Law School, DC politics, “community organizing” and the can’t-do, ‘they raised the bar on me’ collective complaint.

If she can beat off the frothing Newsweek/MSNBC/New York Times inbred rabid wolves, and do it with the grace she has shown so far, she will fill a deep yearning among Americans for someone like her. A lot of Americans, if they watch reality shows, prefer truckers on ice or Bering Sea crab fishing to endless psychodramas of thirty-something suburban whiners.

So apparently they are eager to see a rare politican who is unapologetic about America’s past achievements (cf. Obama’s “tragic history” and need for more “oppression studies”), and who reminds us with pride that a muscular world of action, not community organizing, creates the bounty that others use and take for granted but so often sneer at the methods of its acquisition.

Right now, there are millions rooting for her in a way not true of Biden—and many who are criticizing her don’t have a clue why that it is so.

Victor Davis Hanson also wrote the following:

There is something ignoble about these elite, affluent, and well-connected observers in smug fashion savaging Palin, when — especially in the case of the sneering power-women — we should all at least grant that Palin is intrinsically bright, energetic, savvy, and independent to have come this far at all, given the slanted and insider rules of the game she’s in.

You may not agree with her politics, but the good doctor is the lead singer in a band, and they are pretty good. So to you doctor, the epitome of a smug and sneering power-woman…. Shut up and sing!

Although they are nice too look at, I prefer listening to this “Real Me’ a little better.