The Pink Flamingo :: The Coming Conservative Chick Crack-up

I dont' mind admitting I am still a big fan of the old Debbie Reynolds Tammy movies, that went on to be a television series when I was just the right age to be impressed. If you aren't familiar with the story, it is one about a very pretty, very talented, and very bright country girl who goes to work for a millionair and his handsome political son. Naturally the socially elite women who are all around her absolutely detest her - because they are so darn jealous.

Rick Moran has a fascinating piece today that does more to highlight the differences within the conservative movement that I've seen. He's also proven to me that he's a darn good writer. When not blogging, I'm a good writer. But, when blogging, I sometimes get so hot under the collar that proper English gives way to irate madness. I mention this because today Moran has managed to give voice to some of that irate madness, and maintain his grasp of English 101. For that, I salute him!

He does a great job taking out Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, and David Brooks, elitists who just don't seem to "get" Sarah Palin. With all due respect to Moran's very good piece, as a male, he just doesn't get it. AJ Strata calls it the Political Industrial Complex Strikes Back. There's more to it. This isn't about Sarah Palin not being "ready" or inside the Beltway, this is all about the repudiation of all those hard-working conservative inside the Beltway women who have labored long and hard and spent much of their lives worshipping Reagan.

Sarah got picked and they did not.

It's like this guys, it's a cat-fight. Trust me. Hell hath no fury...yada yada yada. We're dealing with the women who have been scorned. They're has-beens. They're last year's prom-queens, all dressed up with nowhere to go and the new girl in town stealing all their dates.

There are some Democratic women who see Sarah Palin for who and what she is, and are ducking the ongoing liberal cat-fight.

J. R. Dunn sees it a bit differently at the American Thinker:

"...My opinion is no mystery to readers of this site -- that the urban conservative crowd is frightened of Palin because she represents a threat to the standard model of conservatism constructed since the wilderness years of the 1930s, in which a highly-educated and well-connected East Coast coterie led a much larger, less-informed heartland contingent. This, like it or not, is elitism. By their very nature, elites tend to corrode over time. And Sarah Palin, through the very fact of her showing up, has revealed this to be the case in our circle. She upset the enclave conservative applecart, and now they are angry -- a lot angrier than they have been at any lefties in recent memory...."

This is not as much about the elites verses the geeks as you might think it is. It is very much a chick thing, trust me. Women don't think the way men do. Have you ever seen the movie Mean Girls? That's how the world of women works. We may not be talking about high school and teenagers but Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker are acting exactly like the snotty little uber cute girls who control a school. They are the superrior ones and no one is allowed to muscle into their little show.

Men are clueless.

Women are vicious to one another. I admit, it took me several months to realize we were up against the female edition of you know what envy. Then, after reading faded, has-been prom queen Peggy Noonan's piece of trite that pretends to be a column I realized it was the green eyed monster. It's the chick version of "roid rage".

Have you ever had the misfortune to watch a beauty pageant with a group of women? Just get out the milk and meow-mix and run for cover. Now, try being in that room if some of the women know one of the contestants and don't like her. Meow! We pick everything apart in a woman.

If you still don't comprehend, let me ask you about Harrison Ford or Brad Pitt? As a male, you will find every flaw. We just sigh and ignore your male complaints. Got it?

Now, going back to the Palin Pick. It really doesn't matter if the woman chosen as the first serious VP candidate were Sarah Palin or Hillary Clinton. It would be the same thing. The claws, painted blood red, would be out, ready to shred.

It's like Cinderella. We all think we're going to end up with Prince Charming until he officially ties then knot, then we start counting down till the divorce. Don't tell me there isn't a woman, liberal, conservative, Republican or Democrat who thinks she would not have been a better choice. As long as a woman had not been chosen for the VP or POTUS slot, we all had a chance. Now though, it's over, the dream shattered by Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.

Consequently, those women who aren't all that accepting of their role in life, and still holding on to that impossible dream are going to be the nastiest about it. Face it, you're not seeing men as vicious toward Sarah Palin as are women. They can still object to her, but they are not vile and disgusting about it.

It's a chick thing.

It doesn't halp that both Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton "have it all". Sarah Palin is beautiful, let's face it. She's talented, bright, and exposes every flaw in our lives. Hillary Clinton is rich and powerful. She's been there, done that, and has emerged with a grace of character in defeat that we all can envy. To make matters even worse, she was cheated out of her victory and battered by another candidate who is every bit the brut and bully we fear him to be. Through it all she has maintained a grace and a poise that is remarkable. Sarah Palin has been kicked in the teeth by life several times this year. Like Hillary Clinton she has preserved with grace and poise.

Hillary has the clothes and Sarah has the shoes! To make it even worse, both women have spouses who are standing by them and fighting for them. Who wouldn't envy that?

If both women weren't so remarkable I think I'd hate them. (Just a chick joke).

Women like Maureen Dowd, Peggy Noonan, Naomi Wolf and Kathleen Parker need to grow up and realize this is no longer high school. They can still act like the mean girls, but they're not fooling anyone with their pathetic juvanile attacks on either Palin or Clinton.