Beyond the Palin 2
Praised with faint damns: she’s no Margaret Thatcher (not that being one is any kind of accomplishment). Michael Stickings in the Guardian:
Palin, for her part, spent a few years meandering around post-secondary institutions in Hawaii, Idaho and Alaska before settling in as a local sportscaster, cozying up to the extremist Alaskan Independence party and entering local politics, first in Wasilla and then squeaking past the corrupt leadership of the state Republican party in Juneau, where she was discovered by Kristol et al, anointed by James Dobson and the Christian right and dumped onto the national ticket to arouse the lethargic, anti-McCain base.
Thatcher was not sublime, despite the best efforts of the right-wing publicity machine to portray her as a British Reagan (also not sublime–Will Bunch q. v.), but Palin is, indeed, ridicuous.
Pay close attention. Watch as she fades away . . . .
January 3, 2009 at 8:15 am
This twit is too arrogant to “fade away”. And her followers are too (insert adjective here)to allow it.
January 3, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Yeah, well, if a doofus does cartwheels in the forest and no one is looking, did the doofus really do cartwheels?
Her stock with the American voting public is at this point lower than Bernie Madoff’s.