Posted by
Shosh on Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:40:35 PM
I have one question for Kathleen Parker over at National Review:
What Are You Thinking?
According to her
Townhall.com bio, "Parker is director of the School of Written Expression at the Buckley
School of Public Speaking and Persuasion in Camden, South Carolina." I wonder if she's ever taught a class on "teamwork" or if she just sits back and lets her students hack each other to death in homage to what must be her mantra, "The pen is mightier than the sword."
Aren't the tongues of the Obamanation scurrilous enough? Do we really have to create, let alone deal with criticism within our own ranks now? In other words, does anyone besides John McCain know how to fight like a man anymore? Does anyone besides Sarah Palin know how to act like a lady? What in the world would possess any conservative writer to come out with such critical condemnation of a candidate at such a time as this? Is Parker now going to vote for Obama? She's officially gone insane, then-- is that it? So, why should the rest of us have to suffer?
Seriously, what good does it do?
Yet other conservative pundits, like
Charles Krauthammer, have all but done the same. And in doing so, these college-educated opinion jockeys (Parker has a
Master's in Spanish Lit which means, of course, that the only real thing she is qualified to comment on is whether or not Palin can hold a candle to Aldonza) reveal nothing more than their own prejudices against a candidate who is seemingly less intellectual, less refined, and less a part of the politique clique than themselves. What's the best they can do? Make snide remarks about Palin's predilection for moose hunting? Get real. If these pundits and the politicos they admire don't quit jawing and get down to brass knuckles, we'll all be hunting for our suppers this winter. And to their complaints that the Governor of Alaska doesn't "have enough foreign policy experience" can I just ask: Am I the only person on this planet who understands the fact that
you don't need an Ivy League PhD and 20 years in Washington D.C. to know that when a foreign dictator starts throwing out statements about the destruction of America, on American soil, you don't need to invite him to tea unless you've got arsenic next to the cream and sugar?
The only thing this conservative columnist backlash serves to do is to prove that this election isn't just about left versus right, socialism versus democracy; this election is also about class. It's an election held between one class of people who rely on the idea that their money can buy their degrees and their degrees can buy them a pedigree that puts them a pedestal above the rest, no matter what side of the political spectrum they're on, and another class of people who know that, no matter their pedigree, they're no better than the prisoner in the cell next to them, and no matter their status, they're still responsible for making decisions and taking action that ensures the survival and success of the people who rely on them. In other words, this is an election between the elite and the ordinary folks; the Wall Street failures and the workers who are being called on to bail them out.
This nation doesn't need another politician. What this nation needs is humility and no group illustrates that better than the conservative elite.
Just ask Kathleen Parker.