Excerpts of the last parargraph:
“...That bloom [Sarah’s] will soon enough fade, and it will fade really quickly if she uses it to prostitute herself to the Nixonites on one day and then to cock-tease the rabble on the next.”
I’m guessing the rabble are the “Reaganites”?
The Buchanan/independence ties, even if once true, are ancient history. Beginning with the election, she has been far closer to the neocons (Billy Kristol was her debate handler) than either the paleocons or secessionist pro-independence libertarians. Her recent enthusiastic praise of Obama’s Afghan policy indicates as much.