She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It

[lsanderson]

By FRANK RICH
Published: July 11, 2009

SARAH PALIN and Al Sharpton don’t ordinarily have much in common, but they achieved a rare harmonic convergence at Michael Jackson’s memorial service. When Sharpton told the singer’s children it was their daddy’s adversaries, not their daddy, who were “strange,” he was channeling the pugnacious argument the Alaska governor had made the week before. There was nothing strange about her decision to quit in midterm, Palin told America. What’s strange — or “insane,” in her lingo — are the critics who dare question her erratic behavior on the national stage. More

Comments

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

That's a great cartoon. YEEHAH!

[abiku.livejournal.com]

That woman terrifies me as much as she makes me laugh.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

It's not Mrs. Palin that terrifies me, it's the fact that considerably more than a dozen or so people seem to think that she (or anyone even slightly like her) would make a great President, Political Leader, or Pundit.

[abiku.livejournal.com]

That's a much more appropriate way of phrasing it. I agree completely.