2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Camile Paglia on Hillary's Sleepwalking [View all]PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)"People who cant see how smart Palin is are trapped in their own narrow parochialism the tedious, hackneyed forms of their upper-middle-class syntax and vocabulary." -Paglia
"No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different." -Paglia
"I like Sarah Palin, and Ive heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is and quite frankly, I think the people who dont see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesnt speak the Kings English big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist. I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World." -Paglia