Control and command liberals do not like Sarah Palin

I keep trying to get a handle on why liberals' reactions to Sarah Palin are so hysterical. I mean today, the media reports that Chevy Chase wants, and I quote, "Tina Fey to decimate Sarah Palin." Tina Fey's sketch on "Saturday Night Live" was perfect pitch. Palin says she was amused by the act, appearing to take it in stride.

But I digress. My point is only that such fierce reactions puzzle me. But I had an inspiration in the middle of the night.

It is my opinion that liberals as a rule like to run other people's lives, for their own good, of course. In the last several years, they have succeeded in constricting our lives with the ever-growing phenomenon of political correctness. For this technique to work, those being "managed" must be made to feel guilty if they stray outside the permissible limits defined by those attempting to control them.

In her refreshing independence, Sarah Palin exhibits no guilt for personal success, for a husband who takes a leave of absence to become the primary childcare-giver, for enjoying being a mother of a large family, for demonstrable competence with a (horrors!) gun, for knowing how to hunt and then to take care of (field-dress) the prey, for dressing and acting like a woman instead of trying to emulate men, for physical and mental excellence that includes marathon running and smooth skills as a speaker and debater.

Scary stuff. She is not begging for acceptance from anyone or asking for help. It is pretty hard to co-opt someone who wants nothing from you. The liberals can find no points of leverage with her. For controlling personalities, that is undoubtedly intolerable. Hence the hysteria.