Cinderella vs. the Barracuda

[NHSparky]

Cinderella vs. the Barracuda

A perfect example of the bowel-stewing self-indulgence of elite liberalism.

By Jonah Goldberg

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(excerpt)

For people who think there’s no cultural divide in this country, consider the treatment of two women much in the news in 2008.

The first is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. A woman from very humble roots and with a very blue-collar life story, she worked with her steelworker and professional-fisherman husband to provide a life for their large family. She got involved in the PTA. She became mayor of her small town, then rose, by dint of her dedication and almost naive fearlessness, to the job of governor. In a mainstream, almost romantic sense, it’s almost like she was designed by God for a Hallmark movie of the week.

But, when John McCain picked her to be his running mate, the full fury of the liberal establishment — and sizable swaths of the conservative establishment, some of whom dubbed her a “cancer” on the GOP — came down on her with a vengeance usually reserved for Klansmen and pedophiles. Don’t get me wrong: There were valid criticisms to make. But that is quite a different thing than saying all of the criticism was valid or that the intensity and volume of the criticism was warranted.

Then there’s Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy, brother of John Jr., niece of Senators Ted and Robert Kennedy, granddaughter of Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, and the cousin of myriad other Kennedys and Shrivers who’ve burrowed deep into the timber of the house of liberalism. A multimillionaire from birth, Ms. Kennedy has spent most of her life on the charity-benefit and cotillion circuit. A product of the Brearley School in New York and the Concord Academy in Massachusetts before she attended Harvard and Columbia, Kennedy has made the importance of public education her signature cause.

Sweet Caroline (she was the inspiration for the Neil Diamond song) recently made it known that she would like to be appointed to Hillary Clinton’s vacant Senate seat.

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Hammer.  Nail.  Head.  Goldberg gets it.  Too bad America doesn't bother to notice the difference.

[DumbAss Tanker]

All true, unfortunately there were also plenty of bone-smuggling dick-weasels who were nominally on our side but who wouldn't back her, or even tried to undermine her, for game-playing or elitist reasons of their own.

[NHSparky]

All true, unfortunately there were also plenty of bone-smuggling dick-weasels who were nominally on our side but who wouldn't back her, or even tried to undermine her, for game-playing or elitist reasons of their own.

Yes.  And fortunately, we know who they are.  Change, such as it is, begins from within.

Just ask the folks in the Republican party here in NH.  Fergus the Booger-Eater is gone.  He read the writing on the wall and decided he didn't want to be state GOP chair anymore.  Good riddance to another RINO.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

It is the very same classism that the lefties claim to repudiate and fight against.

[Baruch Menachem]

Why do people from NY put up with this?  RFK, started this tradition, but they keep it going time after time.   

NY is doing an election.   Maybe there will be a surprise at the end of it.  There usually is, in cases like this.

[Peter3_1]

There is zero chance, this year, that NYS will select anything except a dem. as SENATOR. The worst we can expect is Caroline. But I'd like to see the Dem. Palin equilivent selected by Patterson. But I suspect we'll see more "royalty" selection by the DEMS.