Why is Sarah Palin Such a Threat to the Left?

Bob Weir at American Thinker has some thoughts:

What this country needs is a strong conservative leader with the courage of her convictions. Sensing those qualities in Sarah Palin, the liberal left is becoming frantic because they can't seem to halt her popularity. The reason they're panicking is because they're afraid of her connection with regular folks who work for a living, pay their taxes, attend a religious worship service regularly and believe that our country has lost the moral fiber that once united us. The book, Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy, covered several historical figures that stood up against the corruption surrounding them, and succeeded in defeating it. Sarah Palin did exactly that in her home state of Alaska. In a saner time in our history, she'd be a shoe-in for the White House.

But we're living in an era of in-your-face corruption; a time when elected officials rob us blind and dare us to do something about it. The powerful Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, New York Congressman Charles Rangel, is facing a growing investigation of ethics and tax scandals. When the man empowered with the responsibility to write our tax laws refuses to pay his, something terrible has happened to our country. With a laundry list of misbehavior attributed to him, Rangel boldly continues to keep his seat, his chairmanship, and is running for reelection.

This has become a pattern across the country. Whether the politicians get caught with their fingers wrapped around bribe money, or with their arms wrapped around someone else's spouse, they arrogantly tell the public that it will not deter them from running for reelection. Once upon a time in America, a politician might be unscrupulous, but if he got caught, he'd be history. Now, we have a President of the United States who appointed a tax cheat (Treasury Secretary Geitner) to his Cabinet and attempted to appoint another tax cheat (Tom Daschle) to lead Health and Human Services before it was discovered that the former Senate Majority Leader was also a tax cheat. Kathleen Sebelius, the Kansas Governor, ended up with the job after paying about $8,000 in back taxes.

I could illustrate hundreds of other examples of rampant corruption by people in elective office. Pointing to government decay is the job of the free press. But are they hounding any of the power hungry scoundrels that masquerade as symbols of decency and honor? No, they're engaged in a continuous merciless attack on a woman who has led the way in the fight against the very corruption that is being overlooked by those who have become blinded by their own ideology.

Palin is a threat because she symbolizes decency in a country that has been taken hostage by moral degenerates. If she isn't stopped, this country might end up reclaiming some of the values that made us the envy of the world.

There's little question that the Democrats fear her more than any other potential presidential candidate. They may snicker and laugh at her, but the relentless attacks confirm that she poses a real threat to them.

So, what can they do? Attempt to make her look like a ditz the way Newsweak did with their cover photo of the upcoming issue. Democrats were actually criticizing her on TV for posing in a running outfit, when in fact she never posed for Newsweak at all. That photo was taken for a piece in Running World magazine that ran last year during the campaign and nobody at Newsweak got permission from that magazine to use the photo. Running a photo of Palin in a business suit speaking to a large, enthusiastic crowd would defeat their purposes.

Even worse would have been a photo of Palin with a rifle or sitting on her motorcycle. That kind of stuff resonates with much of middle America.

Whether she can survive the sustained attacks and have a real shot at national office is still to be seen, but one thing's for sure - if she wants to play a role nationally she'll have lots of popular support.