A Republican Camelot

Penetrating Insights into the Obvious ^ | September 17, 2008 | Michael Asher

[MichaelAsher54]

The timing couldn’t be more apropos. Just last week, the Potomac home of Eunice and Sargent Shriver, the last of the Kennedy family estates in the Washington D.C. area, went on sale. Yet, as the country says goodbye to a last vestige of a Democratic Camelot which once inspired and gave hope to millions of Americans, the country ironically finds itself witnessing the birth of a Republican version of Camelot, one that is simultaneously sending shockwaves of hope, identification and derision through the body politic. Sarah Palin, a one-time PTA mom, and her family are so unlike anything else in Washington, D.C., they have the Democrats quaking in their boots. With her selection by John McCain, the white knight who is the closest embodiment in Washington D.C. to Arthurian values like justice, bravery and truth, Sarah, her husband Todd and their children are about to assume the roles once held by John and Jacqueline Kennedy’s family -- albeit with an everyman twist -- and help the white knight capture an election the Democrats considered theirs.

Perhaps the ultimate irony is that the ideology spawned by the counter-culture of the sixties, which vociferously fought the Establishment and which the Democrats had hoped to bring to its fruition with an Obama presidency, has been undone by its own sense of entitlement and elitism as embodied in the candidacies of Al Gore, John Kerry and, now, Barack Obama. Where their ire was once directed at the powerful, it is now directed at a candidate who symbolizes one of their most cherished ideals, a woman making it on her own while juggling family and career. And the very people they consider bitter, white trash clingers to guns and religion -- who they unwittingly smear every time they smear their candidate -- will find their representative moving to Washington, D.C. instead. Sarah Palin’s era is only just beginning.

Long may she reign.

[Always Right]

LOL, calling this the new Camelot would drive the Libs crazy. They think they own the term.

[peggybac]

I agree. And to think she’s from Alaska (gasp), hunts and fish, and, hubby is an outdoorsman of the manly type. Oh the horror of it all that they aren’t living large on the Cape or in Westchester county.

[Aquinasfan]

the country ironically finds itself witnessing the birth of a Republican version of Camelot

Yes! This is exactly right.

There are countless reasons for the Left to hate her, which is why they do.

[Convert from ECUSA]

"Long may she reign."

I'll second that! Everytime some media "elite" trashes Governor Palin, everytime I see an article posted on FR about some bunch of America-hating leftys trying to get dirt on her or her family, or putting out the most wild and hateful things against her or her family, the more it drives me toward voting for McCain, just to see Gov. Palin win. The leftys claim they "care" about middle-class Americans, but their actions show that they could care less about people like us, except for our votes.

[johnnycap]

I think this is a bit over the top. Who needs Camelot? I think this is more like Married with Children goes to Washington...but that’s all part of the fun!!

Camelot was a dumb idea made up by Jackie O before she got her O.

[Twinkie]

To me, the Kennedys were all about image and, ironically, what we “lesser beings” thought of them. What people thought of them seemed to be more important than what was the truth about them. . the so-called “storybook marriages” that weren’t, the serial puerile sexcapades of men who were supposedly the paragons of virtue who used the power they craved to draw and use women, the pretensions of being such wonderful “public servants” to line their own pockets . . . ugh . . the tiresome snobbishness of “Camelot” and their pretensions of superiority because of their Catholic “faith” that was nothing but Kennedy hypocrisy (puzzling die-hard abortionists for one - go figure).

[MichaelAsher54]

Yes, the libs are attracted to image while we are attracted to authenticity, thus an everyman’s Camelot.