Palin's erratic behavior mars 2010 elections (Attacks beginning already!)

The Washington Post's Post Partisan ^ | November 2, 2010 | Michael Gerson

[2ndDivisionVet]

For many Republicans, the bright, golden haze of Election Day is marred by a thunderhead on the horizon -- the increasingly erratic political interventions of Sarah Palin.

In the past, Palin embodied the populist style of the Tea Party movement while espousing a fairly mainstream Republican ideology. On economic, social and foreign policy, Palin seldom strayed from a simplified, popularized Reaganism. The mama grizzly may have been ferocious, but her talking points came from the Heritage Foundation instead of from darker corners of the right.

But this election season has called that perception into question. Palin's endorsement of Christine O'Donnell in the Delaware Republican Senate primary revealed a preference for a shallow ideological purity above achievement, qualification or electoral success. And on Monday, Palin issued a robocall for Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo in Colorado, one of the most divisive figures in American politics.

Tancredo has made a career of fanning anti-immigrant resentment and lobbing ideological grenades. The people who voted Barack Obama into office, in his view, "can't even spell the word vote or even speak English." America would be better off with a "civics, literacy test" for voting. The National Council of La Raza is "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses." Miami is a "Third World country." Pope Benedict's embrace of immigrants is all about "recruiting new members," in an attempt at "faith-based marketing." "The guy sitting in the White House," says Tancredo, is a greater threat to the Constitution than al-Qaeda. "If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don't we just send him back?"

It would be the worst outcome of this Election Day if the conservative wave were to carry Tancredo into office. The replacement of the supremely decent Colorado Governor Bill Ritter with a nativist...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Karl Rove’s “bachelor” pad?

[stop_fascism]

Why didn’t all these stalwart Pubbies have their undies in a know when she ran for the Senate in 2008? Are they simply pissed that she beat their butt buddy, Mike Castle, in the primary this year?

[The Comedian]

She's going to be President, you envious, worthless, seething piles of crap in a tie.

Accept your fate, so that you may die easy.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[MEGoody]

shallow ideological purity

I don't think ideological purity is shallow at all.

[kcvl]

Inside the beltway elitist to the max.

Worked as an aide to Indiana Senator Dan Coats and a speechwriter for the Presidential campaign of Bob Dole before briefly leaving the political world to cover it as a journalist for U.S. News & World Report.

In early 1999, Karl Rove recruited Gerson for the Bush campaign.

Gerson coined "the soft bigotry of low expectations" and "the armies of compassion.

After leaving the White House, Gerson wrote for Newsweek magazine for a time. On May 16, 2007, Gerson began his tenure as a twice-weekly columnist for the Washington Post.

[3niner]

Palin's endorsement of Christine O'Donnell in the Delaware Republican Senate primary revealed a preference for a shallow ideological purity...

The only win I would like to see more than Christine O'Donnell's is Sharron Angle's. It would be great to see some liberals' (and RINOs') heads explode.

[Billthedrill]

Her assessments of where to jump in have been quite acute.

Oh, my yes. She's not only been consistent, she's been consistently successful. And along the way she's been building up some very heavy political capital, from McCain at one end of the Republican spectrum to O'Donnell at the other. If Hillary doesn't run in '12 she'll have a good chunk of Hillary's people too.

This is politics as a fine art, and anyone who thinks Sarah Palin is a hick hasn't been paying attention.

[Pepper777]

” “ They are not hiding anything - they are against conservatism. What we took as a weak backbone wasn’t - their non actions were deliberate. “ “

Very well said~~!!!

[grey_whiskers]

One wonders whether Karl Rove's misogyny is rooted in closeted homosexuality or rooted in his divorce.

*snaps fingers*.

I *knew* there was something I didn't like about his eyes.

I wonder if the infiltration of the upper reaches of the GOP with queers was partly due to his influence.

And Bush's line, when queried over whether homosexuality was wrong -- "We are all sinners" -- just *might* acquire a sinister double meaning, that the homosexuals knew of skeletons in Dubyas closet (drinking and/or drugs and/or infidelity) and threatened to destroy him unless he allowed them power.

Just ideas, no proof of it.

Cheers!