Why Do Liberals HATE Sarah Palin?

There was no better place to be this weekend than the Tea Party convention in Nashville. The main, attraction of course, was the keynote address by Sarah Palin, who wasted no time in laying into Obama’s first year in office. “How’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ out for you?” Palin asked, spawning rapturous applause from the audience. This is about the time I started to feel brain cells dying and left the room. I wondered, “What is it about Sarah Palin that makes me, and other liberals, just feel viscerally upset?”

It’s not that I simply disagree with their politics. I disagreed with McCain in 2008 and Bush in 2004, but never with the wall-punching fury that she inspires. “Ahh, then it must be her sheer stupidity,” I thought. But no, our previous President was certainly not an accomplished intellectual. Sure, he graduated from Yale, but with a C average. Maybe he’s a grade above Palin, but the asymmetry of hate is pretty brutal. That couldn’t explain it.

Palin was asked a question about the “two words that scare liberals: President Palin”, which she promptly blew off. And then it hit me. It’s not the way she is that frightens and depresses me, though I’m not a huge fan of it. It’s the fact that she is that way and people admire, believe, and crave it. It’s the staggering ability of, in this case, the Tea Partiers to ignore her hypocrisy. The deficit, which was of course attributed to the current President, was denounced as “immoral”. Yet does Palin favor scrapping the Bush tax cuts? Does she want to roll back the Medicare prescription drug plan? Did she reject stimulus funds as Governor of Alaska? Of course not. In Palin’s world, fiscal conservatism never applies to conservatives.

The Constitution prohibits excessive federal power. Yet, when it comes to national security, “We need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law.” The law apparently prohibits health reform legislation, but not indefinite detention on U.S. soil. In Palin’s world, the Constitution never applies to conservatives.

She took a swipe at closed-door negotiations on healthcare, noting that C-Span viewers were shut out. Yet, she ignored the fact that on many, many, many occassions she has barred the press from her own appearances. In Palin’s world, transparency never applies to conservatives.

What’s most upsetting is that the crowd cheered on, as though it were gospel. And that’s the heart of my hate for her. She takes advantage of the fundamental trust “ordinary people” put in her. She scrapes the bottom of the political catch-phrase barrel and they still eat it up. In Palin’s world, few think hard enough to see through her lies. The sad part is, the same is true in ours.

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