Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
I don't understand why people believe power and popularity equal intellect. Sarah Palin gives the appearance of an Anti-Intellectual, and they are. The Tea Party movement is based on the idea that the government is screwing the 'Joe the Plumber' the Anti-intellectual symbol himself.
'Joe the Plumber' was just a plain old guy until the left blew him up into something else. To me, he's still just some guy who asked a confrontational question of Obama.
Palin's homey persona works for her and it appeals to many people. The country thing she affects covers up the fact that she has proven herself a shrewd and calculating strategist who knows how to defeat more powerful foes. In another thread on this site we're discussing the liberal antipathy towards rural people and how such people are dismissed as ignorant and stupid because they don't come from a city or because they have a cute country accent.
The mistake about propaganda, such as what's being spewn about Palin, is that the people who spout it sometimes end up believing it themselves.
I expect Palin to run for President in two years and I expect her to win the GOP nomination.
And after five years of the liberals and Democrats telling their base how "stupid" this woman is I expect the Democrats to have a hard time motivating their base to donate money to defeat someone they've painted as easy to defeat because, after all, she's stupid, right?
Politicians of different stripes have been underestimated before and I expect this one will be, too. The last country bumpkin to be dismissed as a schmuck by the elites was Bill Clinton and he smoked the elites and then beat an incumbent President. No reason Palin can't follow his lead.
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