Comes McPhillips: [1]
What Victor Davis Hanson says about David Letterman et al [2].
Yeah, Letterman, somewhere along the line, grew increasingly unhinged off the political side of his stale late-night mess. I’m not a Palin fan (liked her initially, respect many of her views, but simply cannot tolerate the rambling double-talk), but the attacks on her are so vicious that it reminds me of the everpresent heavies in old westerns, the slimey bad guys with tobacco juice sliding down the sides of their mouths, who were always ready to shoot a young earnest rancher for one reason or another.
Well, let’s face it, Martin, the description you give pretty much describes the reaction of Democrats to about anyone who dares to poke their head up out of the sand, to the right of where Fidel Castro stands. You and I have both seen it for far too many years.
And as for Letterman, look; he’s doing what entertainers do… he’s playing to his audience. He knows on what side of the political isle his bread is greased. I tend to agree with Billy’s take on that part of all of this. He’s being a leftist nutter because the majority of the people who are his followers are leftist nutters, as well. That’s how he makes money. In that regard, Letterman is much the same as Keith Olberman. Both hacks.
[3]Sarah Palin
I must say, I don’t share Billy’s distaste for Palin [4], suspecting that a lot of the nonsense you’re talking about can be directly attributable to the besotted McCain campaign. Remember, she was chosen to push the balance of the ticket right to counter McCain’s left-leaning, and backfired on McCain because her conservatism was far more popular.
My read is that while she has some issues one could call minor… (particularly as compared to the current White House occupant and most of Congress) her politics on the whole are a lot closer to the politics of most Americans than the majority of the current GOP leadership.
Hence their anti-grassroots reactions from the GOP leadership [5] directed at her, and the reax of the left, inclduing Letterman. They both see her as a real threat for the same reason; She’s a conservative and conservatism is far more popular than they are.
Will she in fact be in the lead come 2012? I figure that depends on our coming up with someone more consistantly conservative than she. Who will that be? It’ll be the one who gives up the nonsensical notion that being “Democrat light ” is “good”, and acts accordingly. At the moment, for good or ill, the one individual doing that is Sarah Palin.