” let us not forget about Mr. Conservative himself Rush Limbaugh.”
Radio support - Rush, Wilkow, Church
Print- Thomas Sowell, Coulter, Malkin
Let’s see how many line up with her
Extending Palin’s basketball analogy:
I think she’s attempting to execute a political “give and go” or a “backdoor cut.” You pass the ball to a teammate and cut hard towards the goal. The tendency of the defense is to play the ball, not the player. If it works, you get a wide-open layup. If it doesn’t, you circle around the basket and set up on the perimeter for another play.
Also, one basket doesn’t win the game. You need to score repeatedly—but you can’t do that if the other team is double-teaming you all the time, so you HAVE to pass the ball—”hit the open man.”
Finally, sports-related, Palin is a marathon runner. She knows something about pacing herself.
I’m guessing many of Palin’s detractors have never played or even seriously watched and analyzed any kind of sporting event.
Her opponents remind me of a bunch of three year olds playing soccer. They just run after the ball in a big herd—there’s no strategy there, just a lot of shouting and futile effort to get to the ball. Only the older kids grasp things like spacing and passing and set plays.
I think Palin understands political spacing, passing, and set plays, in a way that lots of Beltway people just don’t. It’s a different kind of politics from the smashmouth variety they’re used to.
It’ll be fascinating to see if Palin’s kind of politics can work on a national level as well as it did in Alaska.