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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
How can you say she doesn't have traction? She won the nomination.
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Fair enough, but she's
down by 18 points in the polls. In a GOP year.
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I don't disagree with any of this. But my point was, not that long ago she would have been laughed off the stage, ignored on any ballot and wouldn't have been taken seriously enough to have won the nomination anywhere. And this is the direction in which we are headed. It no longer matters whether you understand the issues--in fact, you can be completely ignorant on all of them. What matters now is whether a moron can identify with you enough to pray with you. And that's the Bush-->Palin legacy. How far will this go? Will that jackass in Alaska win the Senate while refusing to answer one question and handcuffing reporters who try to get him to answer questions?
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I guess I have two responses to this. One is, you're absolutely right.
The other is, the economy is REALLY REALLY bad for a lot of people, but that fact really hasn't penetrated the consciousness of the country's elites. People who have graduate degrees and money just aren't feeling the effects in the same way, and so the political and media elites whose discourse becomes the national conversation just haven't had to come to grips with how bad things are. That kind of climate gets you this kind of election, where people want to throw the bums out, and will elect morons if that's what it takes. It amazes me, for example, that people are basically content that the Federal Reserve Board is fiddling while Rome burns. Inflation is below the targets, millions of people are unemployed, and .... nothing. There's just no sense of urgency. So, people react. (And the Republicans who are about to get elected are basically going to pour gas on the file. Things are going to get uglier.)
