Palin strategy--circumvent the Republican establishment

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/4051-sarah-palins-presidential-strategy

Sarah Palin has special appeal because she wraps the story in an upbeat message. She avoids the bilious rants of Rush, Sean Hannity, and their ilk. But her cheerfulness isn't sunny; she doesn't promise Morning in America. She offers pure snark, and promises revenge. Over and over again she tells the same snide, sarcastic, inside joke, but in different words: "They think they can keep screwing us, but (wink, wink), we know something they don't. We're gonna take over and screw them."

The Palin Strategy is to circumvent the Republican establishment, filled as it is with career Republicans, business executives, and Wall Streeters. That's why her path to the Republican nomination isn't the usual insider game. It's a celebrity game - a snark-fest with the nation's entire white working class. Vote for Bristol and we'll show the media establishment how powerful we are! Buy my book and we'll show the know-it-all coastal elites a real book directed at real people! Tune into my cable show and we'll show the real America - far from the urban centers with immigrants and blacks and fancy city slickers!

As I believe will become clearer, the Palin Strategy will involve a political threat to the GOP establishment: Deny her the nomination she'll run as independent. This will split off much of the white working class and guarantee defeat of the Republican establishment candidate. It will also result in her defeat in 2012, but that's a small price to pay for gaining the credibility and power to demand the nomination in 2016, or threaten another third-party run in 2020.

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More than anything else, the Palin Strategy depends on the continuing fear and anger of America's white working class. She's betting that their economic prospects will not improve by 2012, or even by 2016 and beyond.

Sadly, this is likely to be the case. On Tuesday, the Fed issued a gloomy prognosis. Even if the U.S. economy began to grow at a rate more typical of recoveries than the current anemic 2 percent, unemployment won't drop to its pre-recession level for 5 to 7 years. A minority of the Fed thought this was too optimistic.

A real Thug fascist mentality

Mooselini is taking advantage of the big hole in the GOTB. They have no "bench"...few truly experienced and credible candidates, just a fractured group of malcontents who are mad about everything...and she channels that anger. There's no substance, no solutions...only playing victim and to their own misguided feelings of persecution. That's why the ridicule and criticism of her is seen as a cause celebre by her acolytes.

Her other advantage is not having her hands messed up in an economy that has made this administration look weak. No need to remind people who created this mess (and I hope to see a nice cat fight between the Palins & boooshies) other than it's all President Obama's fault and to project every problem as his alone. The red meat combined with the latent racism and other dogwhistles are what faux noise and the rest of the corporate media just can't get enough of.

But perception is reality in this screwed up country. Yes, she stands a very good chance of winning the rushpublican president nomination solely on the ineptness of others...both Democrats and rushpublicans. But that window is a very small one and closing. Other than winning one statewide election in one of the least populated states in the union her political "magic touch" is a dud. While we can debate how bad she hurt McCain (I know she cost him Florida) she was on the losing team and that streak has continued...Whitman, Angle, O'Donnell, Buck. Her "aura" is a mile wide and inch thick and while she propsers in the parallel universe, when she ventures in the reality-based one, she's a big loser.

May she continue to harp and snipe and draw more enemies in her own tent. A third party? Too delightful to contemplate right now...let her continue to rampage through the GOTB first.

Grand Ole' Tea Baggers?