Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is subjected the viciousness of the PC-class - as expected

Sarah Palin's appearance and speech at the Republican Party's convention has been like a lightening bolt spearing down unmercifully on the PC-Class, not only in America but across the world. Delighted conservatives now see that the McCain/Palin ticket is in with real chance. Indeed, I'm going to be so rash as to claim that John McCain will be inaugurated early 2009 as the next US President and Sarah Palin as his Vice President.

Perhaps giving us conservatives as much pleasure as a McCain/Palin victory is the hysteria and dismay the PC-Class is undergoing at the moment, as they see the Presidency once again sliding out of their grasp. They can hardly contain their consternation. The degree of scorn, mockery, nastiness and viciousness that has overwhelmed that class is a wonder to behold. The far-left bloggers in the US are just about imploding in the frantic mental exertion to cut down this impressive woman.

Some scribblers are churning out manifestos of PC-Class doctrine to show how much Palin is deviating from the political prescriptions an approved politician must follow. She's against abortion, gay rights, gender equity, the environment. She's a gun-toting, moose-killing, ignorant far-right religionist who is bent on introducing the fantasy of creationism in schools and so on and so on. There is no end to the leftist squealing.

The prize for really grotesque nastiness, though, must go once again Bill Maher and the Daily Kos. Bill Maher made fun of Palin's Down Syndrome child and referred to her as a "stewardess". The Daily Kos, a website that puts no boundaries on leftist hatred, came with the story that Palin's Down Syndrome baby was really her daughter's baby, and that she had connived to hide the scandal of her daughter's pregnancy.* You have to wonder about the sanity of people who dream up this sort of stuff. Of course, we now know that that story is an impossibility. The pregnancy of the daughter and the birth of Sarah Palin's son do not match up.

In reality, the PC-Class are the ones firing wildly - so much so as to shoot themselves in the foot. Their attacks are so wild and strident as to be ineffective and unconvincing for the voters who really matter in the coming election: the independent voters. Indeed, the attacks will most likely prove counter-productive.

In the US there are enough strong conservative voices to go on the counter attack. In Australia we have to put up with the hardened political arteries of the Fairfax Group newspapers who must churn out the usual PC scorn and mockery. The reader should do a search on Sarah Palin in that Alzheimer-afflicted rag called The Age to get a taste of the coverage. Here's a sample: Gun-toting-governor takes another shot at the presidential glass ceiling

Recently the Fairfax Group management fired the Editor-in-chief of The Age. That was a strategy, I assume, to improve The Age's performance. You've got to laugh. The Age won't improve until most of its journalists are sent off to a retirement village. You can include cartoonists Ron Tanberg and Michael Leunig in that group. Tanberg is a clever cartoonist but his leftist nastiness has worn thin after forty years. As for Leunig, he's about as deep as a puddle on a concrete slab.

* I first came across this report on Elsevier online with reference to the Daily Kos as their source.

comments: gerardwilson01@optusnet.com.au