Sarah Palin: Cheney with a moose gun

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Sarah Palin: Cheney with a moose gun
Cynthia Tucker

Sunday, September 21, 2008


Some members of the chattering classes — pinot-swilling, arugula-chomping snobs — seem to think Sarah Palin is not qualified to be vice president. Well, that’s not fair.

Any thorough study of Palin’s record reveals that she has modeled her style of governance after Dick Cheney, whose authoritarian principles of leadership rely heavily on lying, secrecy and vindictiveness. Though Palin’s public career has been much shorter than Cheney’s, she has nevertheless shown a genuine flair for those same traits — telling lie after lie to conceal her misdeeds from public view and trying to destroy those who dare disagree with her. She has proven a quick study of the Sith lord.

And Palin has tools in her arsenal that the grumpy Cheney lacks: She’s a charming and attractive woman, with legions of loyal supporters willing to yell “sexism!” whenever her record is questioned or her credentials challenged. It’s a brazen claim for conservatives, who didn’t even believe in sexism — they dismissed it as “the politics of victimization” — until a few weeks ago.

Now, it’s true that not many politicians have mastered the fine art of manipulation and mendacity as well as Cheney has. But Palin has a gift for dissembling with a straight face, even when she’s called on it.

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1. Let's just say none of Sarah's friends want to get peppered

with an errant shot from her Sako .223