Posted on 12/23/2009 9:17:17 PM PST by Brugmansian
. . . Desiccated expertise, of the kind possessed by economists, environmental scientists, and overinformed reporters from the lamestream media, clouds good judgment; Palin's life, by contrast, is presented as one of passion, sincerity, and principle. Going Rogue, in other words, is a four-hundred-page paean to virtuous ignorance . . .
Her sarcophagous appetite for flesh and slaughter goes hand in hand with her scorn for vegetarians—more, it seems, because of their presumed social class and education than because of the food on their plates . . .
Palin showed her form in her first big race, in 1996, when she challenged the three-term incumbent mayor of the town, John Stein, who seems not to have known what hit him . . . In Going Rogue, Stein is described as "relatively new to the community." "He wasn't a born-here, raised-here, gonna-be-buried-here type of hometown guy." Those darned wandering Jews . . .
Most people I know, myself included, can't readily follow the algebraic equations that explain the "Keynesian multiplier," which, in its turn, is needed to explain TARP and the stimulus package. Belonging to a tribe different from Palin's, I simply take it on trust as a matter of faith that Paul Krugman, in his columns for The New York Times, is more likely to be right about such things . . .
For Palin, it's simple. The national economy is a straightforward macrocosm of the domestic economy of the average god-fearing family of four. What's good for the family is good for the nation, and vice versa; and the idea that the family should spend its way out of recession is an affront to common sense, conservative or otherwise . . .
Darn...title is wrong....its ROGUE!!!!....grrrr
What a dolt, this writer. I guess a journalism degree can get someone so far, or was it communication.
What a dolt, this writer. I guess a journalism degree can get someone so far, or was it communication.
geez... with Sarah what you see is what you get and with obozo what you see is what you DON’T get!
I’m REALLY going to enjoy watching these effete elitists languish under President Palin.
Sarcophagous (with an o-u-s) means carnivorous.
Me too..I’m expecting mass suicide..so with President Palin and mass liberal suicide, its win/win
And it’s redundant to say “sarcophagous appetite for flesh.”
Sarah’s book is on USA Today’s best seller list for the FIFTH week in a row..it pisses off the left knowing she is making millions and millions of people are reading her book
It means this jourbalist is no Shakespeare but he did stay in a Motel 6.
If only the author were as smart as he thinks he is.
“...And Sarah laughed.”
Just some lib idiot trying to sound smart.
What the hell did he say? I can’t make any sense out of it, only I think he is dissing Sarah in some kind of moronic speech.
Public schools English Teacher Syndrome.
He assumes his readers need to be instructed. Sarah Palin wouldn't do something so condescending and stupid to her supporters. What do you expect from someone who still thinks Keynesian economics works? Especially when he admits that he knows nothing about it and trusts a moron like Krugman.
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