Sarah Palin Is Not Crazy, She's Calculating (And Still More Dangerous Than People Think)
-------------------At some point -- if all goes as planned and Palin finds herself a hot commodity on the rightwing small-time talk circuit, but nowhere else -- she will discover that she is wrong. And, at that time, she will once again be faced with a steep learning curve, like and unlike the one she has diligently avoided, the one referenced last week by conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer on Fox News: "She is not a serious candidate for the presidency. She had to go home and study and spend a lot of time on issues in which she was not adept last year, and she hasn't."
Learning how to navigate the politics of the Lower 48, understanding how they are different from the quirky politics of Alaska, is like the take-home test of policy details she has cast aside in its magnitude, but unlike it in its potential appeal to Palin. She's not a wonk, has no interest in being one, and has quite possibly no talent for it -- but she loves playing politics. Studying textbooks isn't her gig, but studying a new playbook is right up her alley.
And the shrewdest political players don't need textbooks. Bush was evidently a bumbling, fact-challenged doofus in 2000, and, in a 2004 presidential debate, played off ignorance about his own interest in a timber company with: "I own a timber company? That's news to me. Wanna buy some wood? Heh heh heh." He was also a two-term president.
What Bush lacked in policy finesse, he made up for in heaping amounts of the contrived, "aw-shucks" conservative populist shtick that plays well in Peoria. Palin is cut from the same cloth as our former president -- who was similarly ridiculed and rejected by Republican leaders and conservative thinktankers back in the day, until he trounced John McCain on his way to the nomination. At which point, he became their Golden Boy, because nothing attracts the big players like the willingness to do anything to win, and the likely potential to take the prize.
The only real variable, in the end, may be whether America learned its lesson during our last go-round with a professional politicker who left book-learnin' to nerds.
If we haven't, Palin's crazy like a fox.
Shiver.
Learning how to navigate the politics of the Lower 48, understanding how they are different from the quirky politics of Alaska, is like the take-home test of policy details she has cast aside in its magnitude, but unlike it in its potential appeal to Palin. She's not a wonk, has no interest in being one, and has quite possibly no talent for it -- but she loves playing politics. Studying textbooks isn't her gig, but studying a new playbook is right up her alley.
And the shrewdest political players don't need textbooks. Bush was evidently a bumbling, fact-challenged doofus in 2000, and, in a 2004 presidential debate, played off ignorance about his own interest in a timber company with: "I own a timber company? That's news to me. Wanna buy some wood? Heh heh heh." He was also a two-term president.
What Bush lacked in policy finesse, he made up for in heaping amounts of the contrived, "aw-shucks" conservative populist shtick that plays well in Peoria. Palin is cut from the same cloth as our former president -- who was similarly ridiculed and rejected by Republican leaders and conservative thinktankers back in the day, until he trounced John McCain on his way to the nomination. At which point, he became their Golden Boy, because nothing attracts the big players like the willingness to do anything to win, and the likely potential to take the prize.
The only real variable, in the end, may be whether America learned its lesson during our last go-round with a professional politicker who left book-learnin' to nerds.
If we haven't, Palin's crazy like a fox.
Shiver.
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This is the best article on Sarah Palin and Bush that I have ever come across. It puts these two characters in perspective with some much needed clarity. I just hope all the fools that were willing to vote for Bush two times and thought the McCain/Palin was the way to go, are willing to check this out with an open mind. If they care about their country then they will not vote for someone they would like to have a beer with, but someone that is intellectual, with a great since of compassion and judgment.
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- Mr_Green_Khalid
- 5 months ago
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she is evil. plain evil. she loves shooting and killing animals for fun. she wasn't afraid to use her looks to gain power over others. power and a love of killing aren't a good combination, people
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- lalapabrada
- 5 months ago
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