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ok then...let's think about this, shall we. putting aside ace's bizarre-o take on things as a first step of course. the right has a brand identity problem. almost every aspect of their ideology has been pulverized by the realities that conservative ideology hath wrought. confronted with a clinton-style centrist in obama, they reverted to clinton-period form and began to systematically lie about obama's politics. because that's how those paragons of personal responsibility roll. when they're in trouble strategically, start lying. do it early and often. lather rinse repeat. you know the drill. thanks to the conservative-dominated supreme court decision that corporate persons are people too and that those person's free speech "rights" are compromised by campaign limits, and thanks to infighting amongst the reactionary set which presumably didn't find michael steele to be fascist enough, the tea party way born.
palin (tm) is simply a figure-head used by the right to keep the teabaggers mobilized.
this as the momentum they putatively had going into the last elections was dissipated by reality--the tea party elected versions of the same old same old reagan-period milty-freidmany degenerates. and the money people wouldn't have it any other way.
so palin (tm) is never going to get elected president. she knows it. you know it. everyone except maybe aceventura knows it.
she's making bank being a shill for the republican establishment. her function is to help them maintain such grassroots energy as there is amongst the neo-fascist tea party set.
the people who run the show on the right know that the worst thing they could do to themselves is let palin run for anything.
insofar as the tucson shooting were concerned, the only reason i was interested at all in what sarah palin (tm) had to say was a function of what a debacle it was. i thought it was funny. i still think it's funny.
what it reveals, however, is more interesting: the right can't respond. if they loose initiative in a news cycle environment, they collapse. they are only adapted to the funhouse where their's are the only voices. this is a very basic weakness. the way to adapt to that would be to impose an authoritarian media environment.
conservative incompetence should save us from that.
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