Setting Higher Sights
Sarah Palin is running for president, and she has considerable backing, at least among what some are calling “Traditional” Republicans. Those seem to be the over-the-top, win-at-any-cost neo-cons who make up right-wing radio and the scurrilous campaign machines – personnel and money – who backed McCain, Liddy Dole, and their ilk.
Palin is denying all of the charges leveled at her – about the $150,000 buying spree, not knowing what publications she reads, or which nations are in NAFTA – and while it would be risky to believe a single thing she says, let’s allow that maybe some of these points were at least puffed up by people trying to bring her down.
Who are those people? Most of them seem to have been working in the McCain campaign. Those were the same people who chose her to be his running mate.
Why did they choose her to be his running mate? Because she was brilliant and informed and ready to back-up McCain or replace him in a trice? No. Because she was cute red-meat for the Republican base that was unhappy with the top of the ticket.
Why did they turn on Palin? Because while she was attracting the neoliths, she was alienating the independents and the women they were also hoping she would pull off the fence in their direction.
Why was she failing with those critical groups? She was proving herself to be remarkably shallow when it came to intellect, and dangerously primitive in her thought processes. She thought the world was only 6,000 years old, that abortion should be illegal even in cases where the woman’s life was in danger, that living in a state three miles from Russia comprised adequate foreign policy credentials..
In a way though, all that matters was Palin smearing Obama as a socialist who pals around with terrorists, and those who don’t agree with her are unAmerican. That crossed the line of acceptability, in decent society.
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