Either Palin is running to change the establishment, or she’s only pretending to do so and will simply join them eventually. Or maybe she really believes it, but won’t have the strength of character to follow through.
Whether or not she is sincere is largely our own judgment call. Maybe Palin is lying. But we can use our brains to weigh the possibilities.
We can look at her record for evidence that she has done what’s right even when it was a personal risk to do it. We can look for evidence of moral character.
And we can look to see if she has a pattern of saying one thing but doing another.
She’s a populist politician who will say what will get her the votes. It’s her shtick. Calling her plan the “Working-Man’s plan” is straight up populism.
She does have a pattern of quitting. I just read about her raising taxes on the oil industry now she’s promising to cut corporate taxes to 0%.
Calling out others as permanent political class while working very hard at staying in politics really is hypocritical.
She’s got that populist stump speechifying down pat.