"Following the former Alaska governor's road show, the author delves into the surreal new world Palin now inhabits - a place of fear, anger, and illusion, which has swallowed up the engaging, small-town hockey mom and her family - and the sadness she has left in her wake."
(illustration: Edward Sorel)
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HOW CAN SHE DO THIS?
She can because of 30 successful years of Conservatives trying to destroy the very Government they call 'Big Government.' The very same Government built by the 'Greatest Generation' which built the middle class, saw America through always Increasing Standards of Living, Food Safety, Drug Safety, Social Security, Medicare, Affordable Education, etc.,,etc.
Conservatives sell us their 'LESS GOVERNMENT' as a panacea, as the Road to Liberty, Freedom, Prosperity. They sell it like snake oil.
What they have delivered is Less Government (of the People) through a LOT Less Regulation and Taxation (of the Corporate Wealthy Class). Obsessive deregulation has transferred wealth and power from 97% to 3%, It has also allowed a very few GLOBAL Corporations to own almost all Media Enterprises, a huge swath of which is CONservative and through which a person like Palin can easily and broadly bring her gloom to America.
Forget Christianity associated with this predatory opportunist. She certainly has.
The German people felt trampled upon, and so do many Americans today. I can hardly blame rural independents for supporting the Tea Party when mainstream Democrats and Republicans have ignored them for so long. The modern Democratic Party doesn't give a damn about the rural poor, the self-employed, farmers, gun owners, and others who might have been receptive to a progressive populist movement. Instead, they have left it to the capitalist-aristocrats of the far right to capture those sentiments.
See you in Weimar.
Can't you Palinites see that cute and folksy is not a prerequisite to being an effective President? How about experience and intelligence? Or are you just going to rely on the people around her to create The Palin Mystique, like they did with Bush?
I certainly do not want an impulsive, crude, rude, power hungry "beauty" as my leader. I see no balance in this woman: all artifice, no substance here to be a world leader.
Sarah, tell me it isn't so. Are you pretending to evil when in reality you are good?
How dishonest, how hypocritical!
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Sarah, tell me it isn't so. Are you pretending to evil when in reality you are good?
How dishonest, hypocritical
Be aware that history is always repeating itself. The only difference is the faces and places. Those with such wretched petty minds who cheered to see Joan of Arc smolder for her soul inspired courage and leadership are all of the same vermin who again attack our own homegrown most beloved patriot and courageous leader of this century. None other than Sarah of Alaska. I bestow all honor, love and gratitude to this brave messenger of freedom. Again a Woman has come forth as The Timely Emancipator to our most cherished core values. Let us not become again. . . those Fools of France.
I agree, she probably would miss the dumpster.
She shamelassly used her children and then she whined and cried faul when somebody criticezed her or commented on Bristol.
She is nothing but a greedy fake opportunist, and I can't for the life of me understand how so many fall for her.
Not getting a tutor for the children on the campaign trail.
The hate crimes spiking a bloody trail everywhere she goes.
The rest is a demented form of politics.
I hear ya' Joe, but in this article, this speaks to Palin's reputation for vengeance. I think it's clear that people who have been close to her would likely be very, very reluctant to reveal themselves. I don't think this or any journalist could have done better under the circumstances without lying to their sources, which would discourage future revelation as this author already mentioned.
I wonder what she looks like without a girdle, I didn't know you could still buy one.
In any case, I don't want someone whose half she doesn't really mean might include pushing the button anywhere near that button.
I guess there's a lot more people than we think, who'll drink the "Kool-Aid" that she's handing out. Perhaps she should move her show to Texas, where there's a whole lot more folks like that. But enough jesting.
She's just another dunce of a pawn, much like George W. was a dunce of a pawn. They'll run her with a Republican Big Daddy Warbucks, who will make all the important decisions (or should I say dictate the "stern instructions") for her to publically approve , just like Cheney did for Bush. They are probably hoping that all the duped radical right Christians and the female voters will run to the polls and elect her. This was the Republican scheme that they pulled off in the 1999 elections.
As far as I'm concerned, the Republican king pins remind me of J. R. Ewing in the Dallas TV Series. What ever they say or do, no matter how illegal, unconstitutiona l, or unethical it is, their ends justifies their means.
I was reminded as I read the piece of Jim and Tammy Fay Baker, husband and wife snake oil purveyors in the hey day of religious TV money grubbers in the 80's. (They operated with the tacit acknowledgment from the Reagan administration that if they delivered the bible banger vote to Republicans, they need not fear the IRS looking too closely at the finances.) I think the same kind of gullible people who gladly wrote them checks are the same kind of people in love with Palin. It's the same us verses them, good verses evil that appeals to unsophisticated people looking for simple answers in a bewildering world. Once again, the Republicans are catering to this bloc of voters with more or less the same propaganda.
And stupidity is what her flocks desire the most in their wish for politics.
Yes, indeed, America has been degrade to "Palinists" the stupid!
I really wonder how so many liberated Vanity Fair women readers feel about such inappropriate liberties.
How can you all endure, being socialists, in a world of cowardly misogynists on and behind your backs.
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