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• Thursday, September 4, 2008 09:03 AM

  The whole point of Palin was to appeal to moderates

  I don't agree. One of the brilliant aspects of the Palin pick is that as extremist and ideological as she is, it's very hard to depict her as such because she doesn't appear to be a fire-breathing Dobson-ite. She doesn't look like or carry herself like Dick Cheney. She can simultaneously electrify the GOP base while appealing to moderates and independents.

  Her speech was brutal and vicious but it wasn't ideological. The ideological parts were spoken in code -- those who want to see it will, but those who don't may not.

  I have to agree. It all comes back to the focus, and moving away from the issues and onto the personality. Billmon has a post up on dKos which explores/explains the real meaning of "community organizaers" and how it is dog-whistle for something completely different to that crowd.

  And I sure don't expect her to come out speaking in tongues, though her church since 12 is about as fundamentally evangelical pentecostal as you can get, and they still practice this. I don't expect her to ever again say the Iraq war was a mission from God, literally a crusade, even though she said that two months ago to children at her church, on film. I don't expect her to define her energy policy as praying to god, although she also said that on film, to the same kids; that they should pray for an oil pipeline to be funded for Alaska.

  She's a zealot and an hyper-radical fundamental christianist, but they'll never actually say that or provide any evidence of that. It's why they locked her in the hotel for 5 days without media access; she had to realize what she can and cannot say.

  —Awklib Read Awklib's other letters
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