{"id":3211,"date":"2008-09-03T14:17:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T19:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2008-09-03T14:17:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T19:17:18","slug":"the-peasants-are-revolting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"The Peasants Are Revolting"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do I count Sarah Palin’s strengths, at a few days’ remove?<\/p>\n

Sharp.\u00a0 Photogenic.\u00a0 A short but action-packed record.\u00a0 Paleocon.\u00a0 Of faith.\u00a0 Dealing with some of life’s challenging vicissitudes like very American family does to one degree or another, and doing it with style.\u00a0 Has to have Ahmadinejad thinking if he steps out of line she’ll stalk, shoot, skin and mount him on her office wall.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah – and an agent of rebellion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don’t agree with Pat Buchanan a whole lot (once he steps outside of interpreting conservative orthodoxy, anyway), but I think he’s got the real importance of Palin<\/a>\u00a0figured out better than anyone I’ve heard yet.<\/p>\n

The arrival of Palin on the national scene, with her youth, charisma and vitality, probably also portends a changing of the guard in Washington.<\/p>\n

With Republicans having zero chance of capturing either House, and but a slim chance of avoiding losses in both, a Vice President Palin, with her reputation as a rebel and reformer, would surely inspire similar revolts in the Republican caucuses.<\/p>\n

As Thomas Jefferson said, from time to time, a little rebellion in the political world is as necessary as storms in the physical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the GOP needs this; indeed, Palin’s record in Alaska, upsetting the Murtkowski\/Stevens GOP machine’s applecart, is<\/em>\u00a0the GOP’s challenge in microcosm.\u00a0 The party needs to clean its house and focus on its real mission – interpreting Hayek and Jefferson into terms that make sense to people like the ones next to you at little league or the grocery store or the gas pump or on the freeway during rush hour.<\/p>\n

The Palin nomination could backfire, but it is hard to see how. She has passed her first test, her introduction to the nation, with wit and grace. And the Obama-Biden ticket, having already alienated millions of women with the disrespecting of Hillary, is unlikely to start attacking another woman whose sole offense is that she had just been given the chance to break the glass ceiling at the national level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s been noted today by better bloggers than I – the Democrats are the real bigots (although I did <\/em>kinda make the point last week<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Let the Dems try to crucify a teenage couple, to babble on about the woman’s “experience” when their Presidential candidate can’t hold a candle to her, to try to keep standing on the glass ceiling (for non-establishment liberal women).\u00a0 There’s a party to resuscitate out there; we’ll come back to them <\/em>later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do I count Sarah Palin’s strengths, at a few days’ remove? Sharp.\u00a0 Photogenic.\u00a0 A short but action-packed record.\u00a0 Paleocon.\u00a0 Of faith.\u00a0 Dealing with some of life’s challenging vicissitudes like very American family does to one degree or another, and doing it with style.\u00a0 Has to have Ahmadinejad thinking if he steps out of line […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}