No, YOU’RE stupid!

There’s at least one person who is willing to publicly admit she thinks Sarah Palin is a smart, feminist mom.

Read a few excerpts from Camille Paglia’s “Obama Surfs Through” article, in which she admits “she still [likes] Palin” and those who think Palin is dumb are themselves “the stupid ones.”

“I like Sarah Palin, and I’ve heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is — and quite frankly, I think the people who don’t see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesn’t speak the King’s English — big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist.”

Standing up for Palin’s blunders by calling them “jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist” is just PLAIN silly and insulting to musicians everywhere. John Coltrane would be offended.

“I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns — that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.”

Somehow I just can’t imagine Palin as a feminist. Sure, she likes babies (has 5 of her own), and supports the pro-life movement, but doesn’t that in itself hinder women’s rights to freedom of choice? Mrs. Palin cannot possibly be a feminist, because she supports ideologies that are opposing the definition of feminism (at least in my view).

“As for the Democrats who sneered and howled that Palin was unprepared to be a vice-presidential nominee — what navel-gazing hypocrisy! What protests were raised in the party or mainstream media when John Edwards, with vastly less political experience than Palin, got John Kerry’s nod for veep four years ago?…Whatever knowledge deficit Palin has about the federal bureaucracy or international affairs (outside the normal purview of governors) will hopefully be remedied during the next eight years of the Obama presidencies.”

There’s no doubt that Mrs. Palin will have a chance to learn more about international politics (and even elementary geography) in the next 8 years, but does she want to? What was stopping her from becoming more involved in the international community as the governor of Alaska? (I don’t think foreign officials would take her Barbie wardrobe seriously.)

“The U.S. Senate as a career option? What a claustrophobic, nitpicking comedown for an energetic Alaskan — nothing but droning committees and incestuous back-scratching. No, Sarah Palin should stick to her governorship and just hit the rubber-chicken circuit, as Richard Nixon did in his long haul back from political limbo following his California gubernatorial defeat in 1962. Step by step, the mainstream media will come around, wipe its own mud out of its eyes, and see Palin for the populist phenomenon that she is.”

Let’s hope Alaska won’t unleash Sarah Palin on the U. S. Senate. We’re having enough trouble getting anything done. Sarah’s senate fashion shows would only be a distraction from failing schools, a broken economy, and our toasty climate.

Source: Salon

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