Brooks and Will have not (yet) declared themselves acolytes of Hope, but have made clear that they view Palin as an unalloyed dead weight on the GOP.Įxperts in Washington think themselves infinitely more important to the Republican Party than mere voters in Pennsylvania who stand in line to see the Alaska hockey mom who sent her oldest son to fight the war the experts once urged.
“Cakewalk Ken” and Fukuyama have now declared their support for Obama, citing Palin prominently among their reasons. Now, he denounces as “carelessness” the war he once urged, lumping Palin into the same category of Republican error. In September 2002, Will advocated “preemptive” war with Iraq, with a nuclear “mushroom cloud” as the alternative. “Listen to us,” say the political experts. Popularity as a pathology? What Brooks and the others are saying is that these people who spend hours in the cold October wind for a chance to see Sarah Palin are too stupid to know what’s good for them. None of her critics in the commentariat could ever draw such a crowd or generate such enthusiasm, and yet they do not hesitate to proclaim that she is “not close to being acceptable in high office” (Adelman), that her selection as John McCain’s running mate is “irresponsible” (Fukuyama) and even that she “represents a fatal cancer to the Republican Party” (Brooks).
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She took her place at the lectern and tried to start her speech, but the screaming audience wouldn’t let her until they’d screamed for another full minute. Inside, thousands cheered wildly when Palin took the stage with her husband, Todd.
The Secret Service passed them through the metal detectors with brisk efficiency, but the line was so long that hundreds were left waiting outside in the cold when the rally began. One tall young man held his tiny infant daughter snuggled up inside his coat. Dressed in parkas or hooded sweatshirts, wearing toboggans or wrapped in blankets, they withstood an 18-mph October wind as the late afternoon turned to evening and the temperature dipped toward freezing.
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