The Leveller: A modern day regulator

Post election thoughts

After the election the media is doing the usual in applauding the “team” for their genius in winning the election. “Brilliant” and other such adjectives are employed by the media outlets that support the winning party. 60 Minutes for example recently interviewed the winning team, and other biased media participates in this congratulatory celebration. In 2004 it was Fox news and a few other media sycophants that praised Rove for his genius architecting a win for Bush. The same way Ed Rollins was praised in 1984 or Jim Baker in 1988, Obama’s team is being congratulated and praised for it’s campaign smarts.

The reality is the Dems could have nominated Howdy Doody and won this thing. General opinion seems to suggest that McCain was the only viable candidate from the Right who had a shot at defeating the Dems. I disagree with this general assessment.

Apart from the Dems nominating Hillary, the right’s best chance at victory rested with the typical formula I will write about in the forthcoming Musket! release, “Einwanderung FeuerTeufel”. For now let us just say that no brilliant strategy put Obama in the Oval Office. Neither did such a thing keep Bush there in 2004 or win it in 2000.

The ’92 Clintonesque victory for Obama was due to as usual, the economy and therefore “Change”. Nominating anyone but Hillary was a virtual lock on the presidency for the Dems.

More importantly I take away from the post election synopsis the observations on some die hard Conservatives that continue to defend Palin. They are quick to criticize McCain for his undue title of “maverick” that by the way let him flounder as one but are almost overzealous in defending Palin by painting a picture of her that belies the ostentatious stupidity.

Before the tell alls or heart to hearts were seeing the light of the day recently one could arguably criticize her for sounding, speaking, and acting like a 10th grader. But if she really didn’t know Africa was a continent this should put any disagreement to rest. And affirm that she truly does represent Joe six-pack and is representative of the kind of ignorant college kid being produced by America’s college system today, another sad reality insofar as a symptom of the great consumer fraud.

What is more illuminating is to observe the pathology of the die hard Conservatives that have come to her defense. One notable is Michelle Malkin who continues to ride on top of a wave of average Joe-the-plumber ignorance. It is easy to stand out in a sea of Republican mediocrity but her narcissistic pathology outshines the rest when defending Palin.

She writes: “The anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin by blabbermouth McCain aides who are leaking to Fox News is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.” read here

I have a few thoughts for you Michelle. The McCain campaign was doomed. Palin didn’t help it and if the aides are telling the truth, is this still trashing? You say yes but isn’t it also a sign of a bad nomination of both McCain and Palin.

But of course you are defending the Party in your own unique way.

The first symptom of your pathology is denial whereby you avoid awareness of some painful aspect of reality by negating sensory data. And it is what you are avoiding in these most likely truthful and honest criticisms of Palin.

Second the argument in your comments about the 2nd Amendment and Palin’s pro-life stance are more of a distortion in which you are grossly reshaping reality to suit your inner needs using sustained feelings of delusional superiority or entitlement.

Lastly, you are projecting which is the process of perceiving and reacting to unacceptable inner impulses and their derivatives as though they were outside the self. On a psychotic level this defense mechanism takes the form of frank delusions about external reality and are usually persecutory, as poor Sarah is now being persecuted, and includes both perception of one’s own feelings in another and subsequent acting on the perception also known as a psychotic paranoid delusion.

Again, as first noted the campaign that wins is celebrated as brilliant and genius. The losing campaign is described as fumbling and foolish. Both are distortions and thank you Michelle Malkin for proving the point because your ego can not let you be associated with a losing, fumbling and foolish party. Therefore you deny, distort, and project on to Sarah Palin a false sense of entitlement or security that will entice her to run or seek other office on a national stage.

She will fail because the American people by and large may not be as bright as you but in fact are smart enough to sense that they want someone smarter than themselves running the country in calamitous times like these.