Maybe in their business lives, conservatives are the stern, unforgiving masters of capitalist lore. But when it comes to politics, oh, do they love a whiner!
Sarah Palin's heavily publicized book tour begins in earnest this Monday, but weeks before, her ghostwritten memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life,
had already vaulted into the number one position at Amazon.
There is a minor controversy bouncing around right now on the internet, and I'd like to do what I can to set the story straight. The controversy involves two incidents:
And so we bid farewell to Sarah Palin. How I'll miss her daily presence
in my life! The mooseburgers, the wolf hunts, the kids named after bays
and sports and trees and airplanes and who did not seem to go to school
at all, the winks and blinks, the cute Alaska accent, the witch-hunting
pastor and those great little flared jackets, especially the gray
stripey one.
So who's a real American now?
It was Jesus Christ, if Matthew is to be believed, who said, "Love thine enemy." It is in that spirit that I write this belated valentine to Sarah Palin.
Sarah, I love you for having revealed unto the media the snarling heart of the beast that is the base (and the soul) of the Republican Party. Yes, you have the lipstick and the heels, not to mention the calves and bosoms, that send Republican men into swoons, but you have more; the pit-bull snarl that rouses your supporters to cry out, "Traitor!" against Obama, and "Kill him!"
"You really do hate America!" This was the parting shot from a man I
had just debated on a television show shortly before the invasion of
Iraq. Because he's a notorious right-wing blowhard, I laughed it off as
the ravings of a crackpot in extremis.
Little did I know...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - Heading east on a windy Interstate 70, we've entered the Great
Plains of Kansas, leaving the behind the Rocky mountains, where our
visit to Colorado Springs gave us the opportunity to attend one of the
now-famous Sarah Palin rallies. Colorado Springs is definitely what
Palin would describe as one of the "pro-America areas of the nation,"
home to some of its most powerful conservative evangelical
institutions.
