Powerless Against Palin – Gene Schwimmer – American Thinker

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What could possibly account for this borderline deranged venting of hellfire, this spewing of enough bile to float a battleship, enough gnashing of teeth to pay the college tuition — all four years — of the children of a whole battalion of cosmetic dentists? After all, it’s not like Sarah Palin could actually be elected President of the United States or anything.

Or could she?

Of course, she could, or at least the people attacking her think so. That is not to say that she will be elected or even nominated, but she could and that’s clearly one reason why the left is so viciously attacking her and her alone. This has to be a sweet irony if you’re Sarah Palin: Your enemies are screaming to the rafters that you can’t be elected precisely because, in their heart of hearts and brain of brains, they know that you can. The New York Times’ editorial board doth protest too much.

But even that is only one factor that explains, the ferocity, the hateful, the sheer derangement of the left’s anti-Palin barrage and it’s not the main factor, which is this: They are powerless to stop her. And they know it.

For Democrats, it is, literally, the Fear That Dare Note Speak Its Name, the fear that Sarah Palin could indeed be elected president and that there is nothing they can do about it.

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turn on the TV at noon, January 20, 2013 to see Barack Obama, out after one soon-to-be-forgotten term, standing on a platform in front of the White House — and the entire world puts her left hand on the Bible, raises her right, and repeating after Chief Justice Roberts (or reading from her palm) says:

I, Sarah Louise Palin, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States…

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