Liberals Are Cracking Under the Pressure

This election is really getting to the liberals. The pressure is just too much for their pitiful brains to handle. They can't eat, they can't sleep, they can't function. It's hilarious!

The Liberal Messiah may be up in the polls but it's not enough to calm their fears. They've been through this before, you know. Eight long, painful years in the wilderness, separated from the Promised Land of presidential power and influence with only the memories of past failures to keep them going.

They are consumed by what will happen. What if McCain wins? What will I do? Should I get my passport and skip the country? What would Alec Baldwin say?

On a normal day, Sharon Cobb is entertaining to read. Not because she has anything intelligent to add to the political conversation. Bless her heart, she posts some ridiculous rants filled with venom but nothing to back it up. Now she's cracking under the pressure. It's really getting to her. She writes:

I'm friggin crumbling. My nighttime enjoyment reading has been replaced with Newsweek, Time and late night phone calls to friends equally obsessed with this election.

Upon rising, when I look at the clock and it says "6:30," I have to figure out if that's AM or PM. Once I figure out if I'm watching Good Morning America or the evening news, I turn on the television before pouring a cup of herbal tea, which has now been replaced with high octane coffee.

I think it's a real tossup to see which one of my friends and/or I crack before November 4.

So, anyone else a little stressed out over this election?

Fellow liberal blogger Larry David is also coming undone:

I just don't like what I've turned into -- and frankly I wasn't that crazy about me even before the turn. This election is having the same effect on me as marijuana. All of my worst qualities have been exacerbated. I'm paranoid, obsessive, nervous, and totally mental. It's one long, intense, bad trip. I need to come down. Soon.

It's funny but sad at the same time. Sad that political junkie liberals have nothing else in their lives to focus on than this election. Their moods are dictated by what's happening on the campaign trail: Is Obama having a good day? Did Biden say something stupid? What's Sarah Palin said today that will cause me to loathe her even more than I already do? I believe these people actually believe Obama is their Messiah.

Do these people have families? Do these people have actual lives?

One of the side effects of liberalism must be obsession. These people really need psychiatric help. The election is consuming them beyond reason. When you go to a doctor and the first answer that comes to mind when asked if you feel threatened or if anyone is harming you is "Bush/Cheney"--as Sarah Cobb admits to doing--something's wrong. If you honestly believe the president and vice-president of the United States are out to get you, it's time for a one-way trip to a padded cell.

God forbid if Senator Government actually wins this election, I won't throw in the towel and say, "I'm outta this country." Because I have a life, I have a family, I have interests outside of who is president of the United States. I won't like it, but (hopefully) it won't be the end of the world.

The eight years that Bill Clinton was in office were trying times for our country. His behavior was humiliating for our nation and he tarnished the presidency. But I lived through it, went on with my life, and wasn't consumed by it. And after eight years, he was gone never to return.

The scary part is these mindless Obama zombies fueled on nothing but caffeine, cigarettes, and pure hatred for anyone or anything Republican are out there in our towns and cities, maybe even our neighborhoods. Obviously they're unstable. Maybe we need the police out in force before Election Day rather than on it.

Left Coast Media Better Behave in Oxford

The Memphis Commercial Appeal has provided the Left Coast Media with a handy guide to proper behavior and what to expect when they arrive in Oxford, Mississippi for the first presidential debate on Friday. Liberals and uppity media types can be very rude and condescending as we saw from yesterday's post on the Left Coast columnist who visited Wasilla, Alaska. That kind of behavior won't be tolerated in the South, fellas.

"I Hate Sarah Palin"

For a political party that loves to toot its horn of inclusiveness, Democrats sure are a hateful bunch.

Ever since Sarah Palin rose from relative obscurity to steal Barack Obama's presidential thunder, the Democrats and the Liberal Media have done everything they can to vilify her and make her out to be a selfish and neglectful mother, a Christian wacko, and a right-wing extremist. Obama's campaign may have a new policy that chooses to ignore her, but why do they have to attack her when the press does all their dirty work for them? Just do a Google search for Sarah Palin and you'll find them strewn across the Internet.

Case in point: Mary Mitchell, a columnist for Obama's hometown newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times. Looking at her columns, there's no question which side of the political spectrum her feelings fall. In her first column after Sen. McCain selected Gov. Palin as his running mate (entitled "It's Not Her Brains that Landed Palin on the Ticket"), Ms. Mitchell wasn't especially negative despite the headline. She wrote:

"I don't want to diminish her accomplishments. Any time a woman is able to balance the responsibilities of being a wife and the mother of five children, including an infant with Down syndrome, with running a state, that is an incredible feat." Further into the column, she added: "I really like Palin's spirit. Too bad she's gotten snared by the political game."

Since then, Palin's stature and popularity have grown. In a matter of weeks, poll results that favored the Democrats shifted in favor of the Republicans, deflecting attention away from Obama's coronation (complete with Greek temple backdrop). Liberals are scared; when they feel threatened, sensing they might once again lose the White House, they will lash out.

Mary Mitchell's initial column on Sarah Palin was a love letter compared to what spewed from her venomous pen yesterday. The misleading headline "Palin Should Be Laughingstock to All Feminists" should have been reduced to simply "I Hate Sarah Palin." The column itself has nothing at all to do with "feminism," but everything to do with her personal vendetta against Gov. Palin because she took the spotlight away from her man. The very first sentence sets the tone:

"Sarah Palin makes me sick. I hate that she was able to steal Barack Obama's mojo just by showing up wearing rimless glasses and a skirt."

Oh no! Obama had mojo, and Palin took it away from him! Simply put, Mary Mitchell is jealous of Sarah Palin and resentful of what she has done to her man, Barack Obama.

There's nothing fair, balanced, objective, or decent about Mitchell's article. She makes no attempt to resemble a journalist (maybe she's not one). She doesn't engage the reader in anything that resembles an intelligent or thoughtful discussion. Three times Mitchell writes that Palin "makes her sick." Three times she uses the word "hate" to describe her feelings toward her. Hate is a strong verb. When is the last time you read that a columnist hated someone they don't even know? One might disagree with another's political views, but to actually hate someone for them? That's going too far. Democrats may say they're ready for "change," but obviously their supporters aren't ready for that kind of change yet. Personal attacks work very well for them, thank you very much.

Mitchell's column is nothing but a personal rant, pure and simple, one more fitting on a extremist left-wing blog than on the pages of a prominent big-city newspaper.

The most revealing statement of the entire column, though, is Mitchell's candid admission: "Frankly, Sarah Palin scares me."

And that's why the liberals hate her.

That's the reason they and their media accomplices attack her and try to dig up anything controversial about her. That's why they judge and condemn her life, her family, her choices, her religious beliefs, her politics, and her public service.

They are all scared of her. They are scared of the unexpected dynamic that she has brought to the campaign, scared of her popularity, scared of the potential loss of independents and middle-class working mothers from their ranks. She has proven that an ambitious woman can be a wife and a mother, yet still accomplish great things and make a difference. She took her right to choose and chose to keep her fifth child, despite the prognosis of Down Syndrome and an uncertain future.

It's easy for conservatives to become discouraged from such an onslaught of negativity toward the Republican ticket. But remember there is a reason why, and Mary Mitchell put it so well: "Frankly, Sarah Palin scares me."

No Heart for "Barracuda"

When she was a star basketball player for Wasilla High School in Alaska, Sarah Palin earned the nickname "Barracuda" for her drive and competitiveness on the court. Naturally, when the folks with the Republican National Convention needed a theme song of sorts for their vice-presidential candidate, Heart's 1977 hit single "Barracuda" came to mind. It pounded through the speakers as the Republican faithful celebrated and added a great touch to the event.

Apparently, they didn't ask permission to use the song from the music group and they aren't fans of the Republican Party. Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson were upset at the use of "Barracuda" and sent a cease and desist order to the Republican Party. Here's their official statement:

"Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The 'barracuda' represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there."

How petty and ridiculous can you be. If they were smart, they would ask for royalties and let the McCain/Palin campaign revive a 31-year-old song that hasn't seen the light of day in ages. Maybe the Wilson sisters would earn a little money for doing absolutely nothing. But they have to act like they're offended just like any good liberal would and make a big deal out of it. Really petty, ladies. And I used to like your songs, too.

A Worried Feminist

The blogger at Tennessee Guerrilla Women seems worried about the ramifications of Gov. Sara Palin on the Republican ticket:

Republicans are seriously energized, or palinized, and I fear many Republican and Independent women will soon discover an urgent compulsion to vote. Women may well bring us another nightmare Republican regime. Women are beginning to be viewed as a scary potential voting bloc. Isn't it amazing how much respect voting blocs get? You should have picked Hillary, Barack.

It would be terrible--for the Democratic Party--if conservative and open-minded women discovered "an urgent compulsion to vote." Shouldn't feminists support women in public office, particularly one aspiring for the second-highest office in America? Oh, that's right--they only support ones who promote their leftist agenda! That's right! Silly me.

Click here for the complete entry (dated Thursday, September 4).