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British media, including the supposedly conservative ones, are supporting Obama and (especially) hounding Sarah Palin, with a ferocity unknown even to their American counterparts, and looking more like the Daily Kos than anything, so to speak, human. This is appalling in itself, and may well end up being disastrous if by any chance McCain and Palin win. These creatures are planting poisonous ideas in the average British reader, which will take decades to weed away. And incidentally, it does nothing to disprove my view that at the roots of all serious modern political conflict in the West there is abortion; for the British media and establishment, including the so-called conservatives, are completely sold on the practice, and anti-abortion forces are marginalized to an extent unknown and hard to believe in Italy or America. This goes back a long time - Margaret Thatcher always voted in favour of abortion. Now, Sarah Palin, simply by being who she is, is a living rebuke to all the abortion-is-necessary crowd; and this explains the ferocious hatred and the avalanche of pathological lies with which this attractive, polite, competent female politician has been welcomed. Find me another explanation that makes sense! It also accounts for the complete silence that has been enforced on anything that might make Obama, the most pro-abortion candidate in history, look bad or even moderately dubious. It is not about race; if Judge Clarence Thomas were running for President, he would be treated like Palin has been. It is not even about party; if Condoleeza Rice had run and got the Republican nomination, you can bet your life that she would have had a much smoother ride than Palin. She, after all, has no children. You cannot underrate the power of repressed and concealed guilt feelings, crawling under the skin of all the career women who got rid of unwanted babies in order to please bosses and boyfriends, and indeed among all the men who were complicit in their crimes or even demanded them; when faced with a brilliantly successful career woman who not only had five children, but opted against aborting even the disabled one. (I don't suppose it helps that she is beautiful and looks ten years younger than her age. The sheer unfairness of the distribution of beauty is salt on any open wound, and the wound in question is painful enough in the first place.) Sarah Palin is a mirror who tells them the truth about themselves; and it is a truth that they cannot bear to see.

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I do not believe you, including your oath, for the reasons I already gave. What is more, this essay was not about Palin but about the reasons for the irrational hatred of her. Even if she turned out to be a very bad politician, your reason to hate her, which you gave away within five minutes of starting the discussion, is nothing to do with that. Conversely, they fall within the area of my essay - that is, Palinophobia and its real reason. What you cannot stand is not a Republican candidate for President - if Condi Rice had ran you would have regarded her at least with mild opposition - but the picture of the five children, including the Down's baby.

I do not believe you, including your oath, for the reasons I already gave.
so you're not even going to try. what do you have to lose? five minutes of googling? have you ever considered the possibility that you're wrong? ever? in your life?

i'm fine with her having five kids. she chose to have them, she's proud of that, and that's a-ok with me. what's not a-ok with me is the fact that she's shown herself to be completely incompetent as a mayor and a governor by her actions and rulings, and displayed her incompetence repeatedly in interviews and debates. if you can point me to one thing she did during her tenure in any official capacity that was an unqualified success, i swear on my own personal god, bruce springsteen, that i will tip my hat to you, shut up, and go away.

Yeah, right.