Posted on 09/17/2009 2:55:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
When Sarah Palin aborted her gubernatorial career in its final trimester, pundits and political insiders reacted with shock, bafflement, scorn, and dismay. “Resigning strikes me as very strange,” National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg offered with charitable restraint. “Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy,” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd echoed, holding the charity. “I wouldn’t call this a strategy,” Republican campaign strategist John Weaver told Time magazine. “This makes no sense.”
To anyone who pays more attention to Ben Bernanke than Ben Affleck, walking away from a prime gig like Palin’s was virtually incomprehensible, signaling either imminent scandal or incipient dementia. To the rest of America, Palin’s move made perfect sense, firmly cementing her status as perhaps the one politician who truly feels our ennui. First she cheerfully admitted that she had no idea what the vice president actually does all day. ( Just like me!) Then she stared blankly when asked to reveal her thoughts on the Bush Doctrine. (The what?) Then, after earning even higher Nielsen ratings in her first big prime-time showcase than the American Idol finale, only to return to Alaska and the dull reality of mulling over potential appointees to the Board of Barbers and Hair Dressers, she bailed. Sorry, politics, she’s just not that into you.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Good, they could use the help at point guard.
Gee I didn’t know the Governor of Alaska’s only duty was to attend barber shop openings. Sorry, I don’t bother to click on the article after that. I may be wrong but I assume it’s another “intellectual sneer rant” article by some metrosexual wimp trying to prove his bonafides.
The author gets it. And, in fact, she accomplished something more politically influential with a single Facebook posting than any Governor of Alaska ever has elsewhere, including herself. She did this as a private citizen with publicity given her for free by media who want to destroy her and with a conduit of communication that those media cannot filter. Yes, it's significant, and yes, the rules have changed.
It’s actually a great article. The author is using some sarcasm and satire, that’s all.
NR needs to learn that you want people in the tent pissing out rather than outside the tent and pissing in.
How can it be a great article if there are no pictures?
Good article.
BTTT
No he doesn't. He may not be in total denial about Palin's appeal, but the whole article had a sneering disdain about ordinary people involving themselves in matters best left to their betters, professional politicians
He's the American Brian Appleyard, decrying the Interwebs and Facetube and how they've given hoi polloi ideas above their station
Sheesh, how can you not see this? Sarah Plain is to politics what Paris Hilton is to drama.
The self-proclaimed hockey mom who supposedly entered the world of politics via the PTA was a career politician who'd won her first election at the age of 28, when her eldest son was just 3.The self-proclaimed new style of leader who supposedly entered the world of politics via community organizing was a career politician who'd won his first election at the age of 31, when his eldest daughter was not yet born.
However he feels about the unwashed, he recognizes that she isn't stupid. The Paris Hilton comment wasn't a slam, it was a recognition of shrewdness. At least that's how I took it. YMMV.
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