Posted on 01/08/2010 9:07:34 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin's memoir really wasn't meant to speak to people who voted for the Democrats in the 2008 Presidential elections. As Jonathan Raban wrote in his recent review of Going Rogue: An American Life, the book's bigger ambition was to further cement the author's connection to "the tribe."
The "tribe" is shorthand for the millions of white conservatives who inhabit the vast expanses outside the elite coastal enclaves. She calls these folks "patriotic, good-hearted Americans" and they return her affection in spades (Palin's book has stayed on Amazon's Top 100 list for over 100 days and also holds on to its No. 1 ranking on the New York Times best seller list for hardcover non-fiction.) They know what they know and like their hero, they don't take cues from the "lamestream media," environmental scientists or Ivy League economists. In Sarah Palin, they finally have a kinsman who can give voice to their inchoate dissatisfaction with nearly everything about the Age of Obama.
That's why Palin, not Mitt Romney, Michael Steele or Tim Pawlenty, got the invite to deliver the keynote to "Tea Party Nation" next month in Nashville. She also got the nod over firebrand invitees like World Net Daily's Joseph Farah, Judge Roy Moore and Michelle Bachmann.
Compared to those three, Palin comes across as a relative middle-of-the-roader, though there's always the risk of becoming identified as the face of a movement defined by paranoid anger.(continued)
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"Sarah Mascara's 'tribe' are the jibbering fools that buy into the Republitrash Party's failed policies of free-running corporate greed, tax breaks for only the wealthiest, denial of global warming, American isolationism, and, of course, freedom to swagger around town with your semi-automatic pistol at your hip.
Did I forget to mention that they are evangelical neanderthals that not only want to ban freedom of reproductive choice for women, but they also want to demonize anyone who doesn't buy into their religious charade of false piety and judgemental horsesh*t - and they're all for surrendering their own - and your - civil rights to the FatherLandSecurityApparatus - an evil outfit dreamed up by their poster boy, neo-Nazi Dik Cheney.
And all this is precisely why the Republitards went down in flames in the MANDATE ELECTION OF NOVEMBER 2008 that put Barack Hussein Obama in the White House and kicked their party of pederasts and liars to the curb, where they will lay and stink for at lest the next 30 years.
Sarah Mascara and her party of filth and lies is totally IRRELEVANT."
Keith, is that you?
Right up until you have to address her as “President Palin” you loser.
(not you 2nd division vet. That other guy.)
:)
PING!
Have you infringed on the copyright of the St.Louis SEIU's Motto?
Has a nice ring to it.
Liberals are absolutely terrified of her.
I don’t think the MSM are even aware of the enormity of their lack of insight that really should embarrass them.
“Liberals are absolutely terrified of her.”
Yup, they will tell us who the 2012 nominee should be.
“Has a nice ring to it.”
She looks good up there, too, eh?
Complete and utter irrationality. Conversation is quite impossible on the topic of Sarah Palin.
You mean dill weeds like Michael Mann and Phil Jones, the guys that put the "mental" in "environmental"?
I’d love to see that picture of Sarah as C-I-C become reality for so many reasons, not least of which is to see the expressions on the faces of people like “Plowhandle” as their skulls implode from a surplus of rage and a surfeit of brains.
The moron called “Plowhandle” has absolutely NO clue. Completely clueless as is anyone who is still an obama supporter.
The “scent of Christ” is death to those who are perishing.
2 Cor 2:14-17
“Attila from Wasilla”.
Winner!
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