{"id":5444,"date":"2010-02-11T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:40:05","slug":"considering-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/02\/11\/considering-sarah-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"considering Sarah Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"

After talking to the gathering that was “more John Birch than John Adams<\/a>“…<\/p>\n

… Notes scribbled on hand…<\/p>\n

… at both the “Tea Party Gathering” and the exclusive interview on Fox News — facilitated in part, I guess, because she is employeed by Fox News…<\/p>\n

… just like Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee — two other candidates floating about the Republican presidential nomination fight…<\/p>\n

… after making a ruckus about Rahm Emanuel’s private use of the word “retard”…<\/p>\n

… and it doesn’t take too long to roll through the debris of her political allies on talk radio to find prominent voices using the word “retard”…<\/p>\n

… Defend it as she shall because Limbaugh is a “satirist”…<\/p>\n

… unlike David Letterman, when he said the same stupid joke as Jay Leno had about another member of her family…<\/p>\n

… the daughter who is, voluntarily, a public figure, unlike the unvoluntary public figure special needs child — who’d most certainly be better off outside the spotlight…<\/p>\n

… I suppose Don Imus counts as a “satirist” as well, asking if the Fox News interview would take place with Sarah Palin in his “lap”…<\/p>\n

… the hand written notes defendedby Fox News as a sign of “folksiness”<\/a>…<\/p>\n

… We don’t need those fancy 4 by 5 note-cards…<\/p>\n

… likewise, the odd politically correct “retard” reference double standard accepted…<\/p>\n

… the actual noteworthy sound-byte coming out of Ms. Palin is the phrase “hopesy changey stuff”…<\/p>\n

… which I take to mean that there’s a contingent of her electorate who knows what this confusing sign is getting at, and can answer it with “yes”<\/a>…<\/p>\n

… I see that the mystery of the sign has been answered.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s “pro” Bushies.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, the message remains that rorschach test… which, I don’t think quite works in their favor…<\/p>\n

… Did Palin break any new ground in terms of policy?…<\/p>\n

… waiting for Emanuel’s apology to his erstwhile political allies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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