John Wayne with Lipstick: The Axe Wielding Natural

I guess I have nothing useful to say today, just a rambling tribute to The Speech. I'm afraid I am reduced to the status of any other bobbling commentator or common bobbletator.

Well, that was only the best political feeling since.... I don't know, I guess since 1980. No, not Ronald Reagan. That's when I saw Barry Commoner speak at UCLA. That's how much of a liberal I was back then. Even Jimmy Carter wasn't a big enough moonbat. I wanted to vote for an eco-warrior socialist professor.

I can't say that I was crying my eyelashes off during Palin's speech, like the softhearted Skully. It was more like fist pumps when your favorite team is torching the opponent, and maybe after the opponent and the media have been badmouthing your team for.... eight years. For those of you who are capable of introspection -- which excludes liberals -- this is what it feels like to have a "fantasy leader" articulate your deepest unconscious longings, and why the experience is so powerful.

There is literally a kind of psychic resonance that occurs, which is amplified by the ability of the fantasy leader to put your deepest concerns into words. To hear someone hammer away at these disgusting people feels very much the way it does in a movie, when the good guy is taking it to the villain. To hear someone finally go after the deeply corrupt MSM... oh my... it felt like a scene in The Sons of Katie Elder, when John Wayne swings an axe handle right into George Kennedy's teeth:


Admit it. Haven't you always wanted to see someone do that to a Kennedy?

And this is why the words of Obama do nothing for us. We can only try to imagine the sort of psyche in whom his hollow platitudes "ring true." It would have to be a "false person" on some level -- either spiritually false, emotionally false, or metaphysically and intellectually false. In Obama's case, he is all of those things. Deeply, deeply false, perhaps all the way to his empty core.

I guess it was the best political feeling since Kirk Gibson's home run in game one of the '88 series. Yeah, that's it. Everyone had such contempt for the Dodgers. The media thought they didn't belong in the Series, and could never compete against the vaunted A's. But with one epic swing, the whole thing was turned around. The A's were completely demoralized and never recovered.

That's what happened here. In my heart I knew it was going to happen, but I was hesitant to say so publicly. But now I'll say it: it's over. The way Palin grabbed Urkel by the scruff of the neck and shook the fairy dust off his bony ass.... marvelous. All he had going for him was star power, and now it's been eclipsed by her greater Light. Next to her, he looks like any other third rate political hack. Palin's the star. Obama's now just in a supporting role in her cosmic drama. She is the Candidate of Destiny. He is now the second youngest candidate with the oldest ideas. Truly a relic of the past.

Palin does so many things pitch-perfect, in a way that cannot be taught. Like Reagan, she really knows how to deliver a comedic line. That's just instinctive. The dramatic pause, the body language, playing against expectations, etc. Plus, she's more macho than Biden and more feminine than Obama. I'll tell you what: she has got to be the archetypal Raccoon Woman. She must frighten the hell out of the metrosexuals.

I'll be honest. I wasn't really fist-pumping during the speech. With her every barb, I made a kind of knife-thrusting motion, with a twisting gesture at the end. That's what I mean about the primitive feelings that are evoked in these matters. Nothing so satisfying as the Clean Kill.

And I love the way her husband handles things. You can look at him and see that he's not some milquetoast liberal, but a real man's man. A man who isn't secure in his person could feel a bit awkward in that role, but he looks so comfortable in his own skin, sort of simultaneously proud and bemused, just taking it all in. In contrast, Obama and Biden are so deeply phony that I doubt they even know what they really think anymore.

And as I was saying yesterday, I don't understand why conservative politicians don't just shove it back in the media's face. That's why I supported Rudy, because he really knows how to do that. So to see Palin put a shiv right into the brisket of the MSM.... it just doesn't get any better. If you don't think castration anxiety is real, just watch the reaction of the media elites as they instinctively cross their legs.

Naturally, I watched it on MSDNC in order to see what the reaction would be over there. The first thing out of Olbermann's piehole was that the speech was snide and sarcastic. Ho! Can he really be so mentally ill that he cannot see a projection so transparent? Yes. He is a sick man. Truly psychospiritually toxic. That liberals find his toxins nourishing tells you all you need to know about them.

Perhaps the worst thing about this for liberals is that Palin can cut right through the message discipline of the MSM and go straight to the people. Obama mostly appeals to the media elite and the professoriate, and all their phony condescending populism will be totally undercut by Palin's authentic American populism. Most Americans still want an American for president, not some UN loving, crypto-socialist world citizen who loses sleep over what a decadent and dying old Europe thinks about us.

As someone has already pointed out, this is not a clash of ideologies or parties, but even more fundamentally a clash of cultures and psychoclasses, and that is what generates all the heat. In a more barbaric country, this is what would be called an "ethnic war," and you know how those turn out. Thankfully this one is not violent, at least not yet. But the intrinsic violence of the left is always bubbling under the surface, and sometimes breaks out at the fringes. As Will was saying, I wouldn't be at all surprised if full-scale Rodney King style rioting breaks out in November.

It's so easy for liberals to chant the outrageous lie that "Bush lied, people died." But how many people have died as a result of liberal policies? The number is incalculable, partly because the effects are so distant from the causes. So no one ever talks about how much real death is caused by the liberal culture of death, but abortions are just the tip of the iceberg. I believe it is completely fair to say that leftist ideas and polices were overwhelmingly responsible for the disintegration of the black family, and all the consequent crime, poverty, early death, and general dysfunction that followed in its wake. And what's their prescription? More of the same.

For example, liberal politicians went about creating a quasi-permanent underclass in New Orleans -- helpless, dependent, looking to the government to bail them out. Then, when the inevitable disaster strikes, they blame Bush! It's incredible, really, but they have the full ideological support of the MSM, which goes about obscuring connections, i.e., "attacking the links" between deep causes and their distant effects.

Remember what I was saying yesterday about maintaining a link between the mansion above and the bat cave below? Liberals have no such link, which is why they are so much more violent than conservatives. Liberal academics and intellectuals -- who are not violent, but pacified wimps -- serve the purpose of giving intellectual justification to the impulses of the young and the underclass, so that they may live out their antisocial unconscious impulses by proxy.

And when I say "underclass," I am not speaking in economic terms, but in terms of psychoclass. In this regard, the two psychoclasses complete each other: the underclass acts out -- and pays for -- the dysfunctional and anti-human ideas hatched in faculty lounges all over the country. This is why intellectuals all over the world support cop-killers such as Mumia abu-Jamal or the barbaric Palestinians. It is why, as Palin said, they are much more concerned with reading terrorists their "Miranda rights" than in killing them. That's not sarcasm, that's the truth.

And the truth stings. Like an axe handle to the grill. Whap! Take that, Deepak, you windy Hindi!