So, it is all the right wing’s fault:

On BO’s birth certificate Paglia writes:…simple questions about the certificate were never resolved to my satisfaction. Thanks to their own blathering, fanatical overkill, of course, the right-wing challenges to the birth certificate never gained traction.

On Ayers Paglia writes: …connections with Ayers do seem to have been more frequent and substantive than he has claimed. Blame for the failure of this issue to take hold must also accrue to the conservative talk shows, which use the scare term "radical" with simplistic sensationalism…

I don’t think so Camille. Does all the right wing have to do to scare off the MSM from a subject is call the subject radical or challenge something?

Writes Paglia: Whatever knowledge deficit Palin has about the federal bureaucracy or international affairs (outside the normal purview of governors) will hopefully be remedied during the next eight years of the Obama presidencies.

I just finished reading this on Real Clear and sent it to my list of conservative friends as a "must read".

Look, she's a lib. What's she supposed to do? Give a high five to Sean Hannity? (I'm conservative and to say I don’t like him is the understatement of the decade. Listening to him lowers my IQ about 10 points. He had about three or four things he's memorized, "Iran is a tiny country, Ayers, Wright, and Rezko". It's as if we has catatonic and spewed them out on queue. I could turn it on one day, not turn it on for another two months and he’s still listing off the same damn points. I can envision him counting the fingers on his hand while he types. I HATE it!).

Can't we just appreciate that we have a liberal woman applauding Palin? I will.

I think this article is indicative of the challenges we face as a party. We can't see an article that has so many good points and criticize it when it lambasts conservatives. Well I guess you can, but it's not the approach I wish to take.

Why is it so hard to criticize our own?

It's sad enough when a fellow liberal shows you the cancer that has eaten up the Democrat party from within.

I love the fact that she supports Palin and finds her likeable and not threatening, as she has mentioned she can save feminism. Paglia has admitted that she is pro-choice, but actually pro-choice and not pro-abortion!

At least Camille has really gone out of her way to see it for what it is--yes she still has those viewpoints, but at least she's not blinded by self-eating hatred that a lot of the left has chosen to ensconsce.

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ~ Winston Churchill

...I appreciate the view of others, especially when they appear as balanced as Paglia. It would have been nice if Camille and more of her type would have pressed some of these issues BEFORE the election. By the way I didn't know that Dohrn worked in the same Law firm as the Mrs. Messiah. I wonder if they were close? Anyway, I think the media got what they wanted. Four years of 24 hour Cable news coverage of potential OJ in the White Bronco moments. I hope we all enjoy the ride!

Gov. Palin went through political rape a phrase I coined here which was absolutely correct as it was sexually based and completely dealing with liberal rage.

Ms. Paglia in deeming this a Sadomasochism event involving a group conveys that Gov. Palin was a willing participant in having herself and her children gang raped.

I can only conclude that America has been so Hefnerized even on the lesbian perverted left that they do not even understand the correct sexual terms they are defining themselves with.
Mr. Sheppard being a nice boy from Nebraska, I will cut a great deal of slack as I doubt the nearest he gets to debauchery is watching Mistress Heather on CSI when Grimson goes in for a tea and talk.

One has to be very careful in praising people, because Paglia while calling out the mob, deemed them not gang rapists which they are and made the act not criminal, but that Gov. Palin was a participant in her own political rape.

So while Mr. Sheppard considers this a favor in reading it, a CAVEAT must be issued as Paglia is wrong and is part of a nuance whose entire proactive stance in the undercurrent is of "recruitment" into the gay deathstyle by intoxication to a clouded rape.
I have dealt with women whose lives were completely messed up by boyfriends who got them high or drunk, tied them up and then hired a prostitute to sex them. Of course they responded to the rape and it blew their minds in thinking they were bi sexual.

This type of predation is exactly the mind control Bill Ayers was utilizing in Chicago when he had a black room mate rape a Jewish girl.
This is why Soviet armies raped all East German females. It is a method of psychological control.

So until Ms. Paglia gets the rape right, I deem her nothing but of this predatory gay deathstyle which states people want to be assaulted.
That is exactly what all these women are about in the Campbell Brown and Lee Woodruff circles. Rape is what liberal males do to them and they want to spread it around.

So unless one knows the deep conversation going on here do not applaud Paglia nor do yourselves a favor in reading her changing gang rape into consentual group sexual torture.

You're not going to get the virgin daughter of Alaska Ms. Paglia.

agtG

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I always make a point of reading her as I think she does try to balance her opinion most of the time, unlike many media shills.  She at least gives Palin and other conservatives a fair shake for the most part.

I love how she calls out Democrats for their attack on Palin for her lack of experience.  She reminds them about Edwards, which was a great and very valid point, and how many wanted Sebelius.  I applaud Paglia for pointing out the hypocrisy of the Democrats.

It was truly an enjoyable read.

 Tom

"What protests were raised in the party or mainstream media when John
Edwards, with vastly less political experience than Palin, got John
Kerry's nod for veep four years ago? And Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of
Kansas"

Most important of all, where were the protests in the media over Obama himself, the most inexperienced person ever to receive the nomination, who has even less experience than Palin or Sebelius?

While Ms. Paglia's leanings may be left, her perspective is usually right on target when it comes to plain common and uncommon sense. She is a thoughtful opinion writer and while I don't always agree with her views, her articles do not become attacks and grandiose diatribes.

She was one of the first, let alone few, feminists who realized that Gov. Palin was a feminist success story.

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