Reply #10: Sarah Palin is the best self-inflicted political wound of the GOP since Papa Bush left Saddam in [View All]

[yurbud]

power after the Gulf War.

Before the Gulf War, Papa Bush effectively sold Saddam as a dictator worse than Hitler who must be defeated, but when realpolitik dictated he had to leave Saddam in power after the war or risk a costly, regionally destabilizing occupation, he couldn't couldn't unsell his earlier fairy tale. The public still believed the propaganda and punished Papa Bush at the polls for not finishing off the demon he created in their minds.

Likewise, the GOP has fed the paranoid fantasies and grievances of ignorant white racists and the religious right and even put a president in office who appeared to be one of them, so that now they mistakenly believe that a REAL ignorant redneck really could run the most powerful nation on earth. But that real redneck would have trouble seeing the difference between the rhetorical red meat thrown to salivating lynch mob of the right and the reality of welfare for the wealthy that the GOP quietly does behind the scenes.

Sarah Palin is a golum created by decades of GOP propaganda, and it's hard to see how any trust fund baby like Mitt Romney can beat her or even put her in the backseat like McCain did when he picked her for his VP.

If she ever gets into office, America will be a cross between DELIVERANCE and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, but I think all but the hardcore right are smart enough to see that.