Kathleen Parker: The Conservative Crackup - The Palin Factor

[RamboLiberal]

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We saw that starkly as Palin whipped up crowds, winking her way through attacks against Obama that telegraphed, "He's not one of us." We saw the cackling white man toting an Obama monkey to a rally and listened slack-jawed as country singer Gretchen Wilson belted out "Redneck Woman" while Palin clapped and lip-synched her favorite song.

Palin was the embodiment of ordinariness, despite her comely packaging, and managed while invoking the Christian God to repel our better angels.

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Palin covered her inadequacies with folksy charm and by drumming up a class war, turning her audiences not just against elites but against the party's own educated members. The movement created by that superelite, but never elitist, William F. Buckley Jr. was handed over to Joe Six-Pack. Know-nothingness was no longer a stigma, but a badge of honor.

The Republican Party's Baghdad Bobism with regard to Palin, a denial so pernicious that party operatives were willing to let her sit a heartbeat away from the presidency in a time of war and financial collapse, revealed what really ails the party. The "P Factor" isn't a single person but a sickness that will have to be acknowledged and cured—Republicans will be reciting their newly tailored principles only to themselves.

First, raise the bar.

http://www.slate.com/id/2203800/entry/2204034/

[Skittles]

1. fuck off, Parker

the implosion of the repuke party had a lot more to do with policies YOU support than that stupid Barbie gal's selection as VP running mate

[Wetzelbill]

2. next time don't be so shy

Just say how you feel. :)

[Skittles]

3. I WILL KICK YOUR ASS

:7

[Wetzelbill]

4. yeah, I'm a lover not a fighter

:)

[Doctor_J]

5. yes, it's more like Palin brought the hatred of Parker, Coulter, Charen,

and the entire hate radio cabal into the limelight. And America said, Your Time is Over

[struggle4progress]

6. IIRC Kathleen in 2003 wrote that Democratic candidates "should all be lined up and shot"

She's a poisonous little package

[hatrack]

7. A venomous harpy dimly aware that the wind has shifted and is blowing at gale force

Parker = :puke:

[kwassa]

8. Parker, to her credit, was the first Repub pundit to attack Palin

She asked McCain to drop Palin from the ticket right after the Couric interviews, and received all kinds of heat for it.

[olegramps]

9. I find it refreshing to see them tear each other apart.

They are truly a pack of rabid jackals. They are so damn immoral they would sell their own mother to a brothel for a buck.

[pipi_k]

10. Selling their own moms

to a brothel for a buck would be pretty stupid of them when they can make 20 bucks pimping 'em out on the streets


They can buy more beer that way