American writer John Hawkins' collection of the twenty most obnoxious anti-Sarah Palin quotations is an education of a sort. The compilation is bewildering in its hatred, and it should certainly put to bed any notion that Palin is only being attacked for her views, and not for being a woman who dares to have such views. Nor are those quoted obscure bloggers, but leading journalists and luvvies.
Reading through it, I asked myself if even Britain's hard left would sink so low (and this list was before the 'edgy' liberal comedienne Sandra Bernhard said Palin should stay out of Manhattan if she wished to avoid being gang-raped by her "big black brothers"). But then I remembered how often that same disgusting and pitiable hatred is directed by them at British conservatism's leading woman. Is it a case of thinking that holding their political opinions is so much the be all and end all of morality and being a good person as to eliminate the even the requirement for basic decency towards those who openly disagree?
