SuperSarah

By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon

As many conservatives already know, and the rest of the country is discovering, truth trumps tall tales -- sometimes. This little adage was borne out by MSNBC’s recent admission that they had been taken in by the Eisenstadt Hoax.

As the disseminators of unchecked lies, the media wanted everyone to believe Sarah Palin was just John McCain’s flight of fantasy, not smart enough to be vice president, let alone stand a heartbeat away from the presidency. Unfortunately, as evidenced by Obama voters interviewed on Election Day, the lies about Sarah Palin had morphed into truth.

Now that the Chosen One has indeed been chosen, it is of little or no concern to Democrats that they trashed the opposition in a manner that can only be described as disgraceful lack of heart and unrepentant dishonesty.

Feminists, too, played an ironic role in this election. By pushing their “one-issue” agenda, i.e., abortion rights, liberal women missed their finest hour – finally achieving political proportion with equanimity. That “one issue” mentality does not now, nor will it ever serve women well in and of itself.

While Sarah Palin makes her own personal choices with respect to life, she stated in an interview with Katie Couric that she was not for criminalizing abortion and that she was in favor of contraception. This clearly flies in the face of those angry women who painted her as a religious right-wing zealot. They never bothered to actually listen to what she had to say about choice.

In light of this singular schema, it is time for Governor Palin to whip off the Clark Kent glasses and reveal to the world the Superwoman that liberal feminists secretly envy. She no longer needs to hide behind those peepers to be taken seriously.

She can bring home the moose, fry it up in pan, and never never let Todd forget he’s a man, cuz she’s a woman, W-O-M-A-N. And this is exactly why liberal women hate her.

Sarah Palin is a happily married wife, and a mother of five; she’s gorgeous, accomplished, and does it all with unmatched aplomb.

Witness for yourself the multi-tasking Alaska Governor in Greta van Susteren’s post-election interview and, as Fox News says, “We report, you decide.” Better to hear straight from the horse’s mouth than through the media’s anonymous “insiders.”

It is clear she can “feed the kids, get dressed, pass out the kisses and get to work by five of nine. Cuz she’s a woman.” This clearly irritates all those women that realize they can’t do it all. As Dennis Miller said recently, “people are fascinated by her because the left hate her.” “Mostly women on the left hate her…She looks happy, a lot of them aren’t…and they’re cranky about her.”

One of the more disappointing articles written about Sarah Palin during the campaign came from Christopher Hitchens. In his October 20 piece entitled “Stop covering Palin until she gives a press conference” Hitchens offers that many conservative intellectuals believe criticism of Sarah Palin is “essentially a blend of snobbery and sexism.” This, he presumes is intended as some sort of strike against conservative commentators, like David Frum and Christopher Buckley (both of whom openly said Palin was not qualified to be vice president). Apparently, Frum and Buckley were anointed spokesmen for the party when no one was looking. Oblivious to those authors’ previous journalistic endeavors, Hitchens must have missed Frum’s comment that he (Frum) “…remains immune to Obama’s appeal.” Or, “How such utter empty gas-baggery could sound to so many people like the second coming of Pericles utterly baffles me.”

Hitchens also accepted media reports about Troopergate and Palin’s supposed banning of library books -- all without doing what journalists are paid to do: to seek out and report the truth. Hitchens goes on to take Sarah Palin to task for misspeaking about Obama saying our forces were bombing villages in Afghanistan. Why does he then fail to correct Obama’s talking point that McCain said we “would be in Iraq for 100 years” when that was clearly taken out of context.

In light of the Eisenstadt hoax, one would assume a multitude of media retractions, but, of course, there will be none. Not retracting lies is just as shameful as Hitchens’ elitist tone -- which reminds us of another adage: “Those that can do, and those that can’t, teach.” Just how many intellectuals can one expect to find in public service anyway? Brain trusts like Barney Frank, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi should give us all pause.

Whatever lack of knowledge on foreign policy Sarah Palin may have can be learned. She is energetic, ambitious, and an unstoppable and fast-rising super star. She will continue to challenge and reinforce the role of women in politics and re-emerge in 2012 as the force to be reckoned with.