Bill Whittle on Sarah Palin: Go. Read.

One excerpt then you’d better click through to read the whole thing or I’ll disown you.

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Sarah Palin is the anti-Obama: not a victim, not a poser, not riding a wave but rather swimming upstream β€” and most of all, not having run for president her entire life. She is the first politician I have ever seen β€” and I include Ronnie in this, God bless him β€” who strikes everyone who sees her as an actual, real, ordinary person. Immediately came T-shirts saying I AM SARAH PALIN. HER STORY IS MY STORY. There is a lot of Obama swag out there, too, but none of it says HIS STORY IS MY STORY. Hold that thought till November 5.

She is so absolutely, remarkably, spectacularly ordinary. I think the magic of Sarah Palin speaks to a belief that so many of us share: the sense that we personally know five people in our immediate circle who would make a better president than the menagerie of candidates the major parties routinely offer. Sarah Palin has erupted from this collective American Dream β€” the idea that, given nothing but classic American values like hard work, integrity, and tough-minded optimism you can actually do what happens in the movies: become Leader of the Free World, the President of the United States of America. (Or, well, you know, vice president.)

(Yes, I am serious about reading the whole thing; that’s why I made the whole of the blockquoted material clickable. Go!)

h.t. BeldarBlog


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3 Replies to “Bill Whittle on Sarah Palin: Go. Read.”

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  2. Okay, I will read it in a minute. Just as soon as I get all these things done. I promise! πŸ˜‰

    I wish she was on the top of the ticket. Many of us do. I wonder…is there any way we can do that? I know, not now. Too bad. Many people are going to be voting for the bottom half of the ticket in this election, for the first time!

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