The Moderate Voice has an interesting post comparing the ever-persisting culture wars of Richard Nixon and Sarah Palin, and suggests that Nixon was a lot better at it:
But no politician has better embodied the Orthogonian spirit better than Sarah Palin. Like Nixon, Palin was driven by a sense that the elites were out to get her. Those elites could be the mainstream Alaska Republican Party. They could be Ivy League graduates. They could be national media figures who mock her use of platitudes. They could be secularist elements that see the world in more complicated moral and theological terms than the Assembly of God. Sarah Palin played on the paranoid dimension of Orthogonianism - Obama palling around with terrorists, etc. - better than any Republican in years.I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that I'm not the only bitter out there who gets a tad peeved when liberal politicos try to convince the public that $787B of red ink wasn't enough, public health care will be swell (also resulting in more debt), and that I'm some kind of a terrorist. The anti-elite sentiment comes from the perception that people with political power ridicule flyover country cultural norms and call everyone traitors if they're not driving a Prius to work.
But, that doesn't mean that smart people shouldn't be running the country. Sarah Palin wasn't very smart.
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"Those elites could be the mainstream Alaska Republican Party."
I'd bet the author never met anyone in the Republican party in Alaska. They tend to be very strong on property and gun rights and favor small gov't/less regulation. A lot like me.
"I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that I'm not the only bitter out there who gets a tad peeved when liberal politicos try to convince the public that $787B of red ink wasn't enough, public health care will be swell (also resulting in more debt), and that I'm some kind of a terrorist. "
That $787B hasn't helped curb unemployment, which hit a whopping 9.5% this past month. That doesn't include self-employed people and those that don't register for unemployment. The left will continue to say "we inherited this" but the truth is we're printing/borrowing money faster than we can spend it and it hasn't helped anything.
Personally, I don't think Sara's that bad. Would she be my first choice, no, but I do know how she ran Alaska and it wasn't bad. Hope things out east are treating you well LT.
I wonder what she would have done if she'd been the VP? Quit? What a stupid bitch. I'd still hit it though.
Or run for office for 3 years while she was a US Senator? oh, that was Obama.
SR,
I think she's kind of surrounded herself with old friends for her inner staff, and that leads to some, uh, bizarre exchanges with the media that probably make her not ready for primetime. Mostly though, I get mad when she tries to inject herself into cultural conservative issues (like the Miss California) to score points with like-minded voters. It's such a litmus test type thing that sends moderates heading for the hills.
Or she just resigned before another investigation of her questionable ethics. Sarah Palin -- just like all other politicians.
TSA searched Mr. Kiyum's car while he was in uniform. Apparently active duty service members are the new terrorists.
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