WORLD NEWS TRUST: Sarah Palin is the Future of Conservatism (John Brown)

[Tace]

Here is an interesting article by a political consultant -- the anonymous we've previously published, now writing under the pseudonym John Brown (Email: [e-mail]). His previous writings include "The Center of Elite Consensus" and "Life in the Post Political Age."
-- Joe Bageant

Nov. 8, 2008 (World News Trust) -- When we look back with the benefit of hindsight at this year's presidential election, we will remember two noteworthy developments. The first and the most obvious one is the historic victory of Senator Barack Obama, and the other and much less noted one is the political birth of Governor Sarah Palin or more importantly the new prototype of conservatism her emergence represents.

Senator Obama's victory is most important in what it negated, the primary political narrative of our time. The conservative political and economic consensus, which has dominated this country since the start of the Reagan administration, is no more. Governor Sarah Palin's emergence is important in what it revealed, a snap shot into how and in what form the American right makes its comeback.

Both of these revelations have a similar starting point. They both come about due to the death of the old right. The conservatism of Buckley, Reagan, Gingrich and Bush the younger is no longer capable of garnering a working majority in American politics, a fact even more highlighted by the very profile of the candidate which routed them on Tuesday.

Many of us will rejoice in this fact, as we should, but we would be wise to remember that the collapse of what passes as the respectable right in any nation is the first sign of a society moving in a non-democratic direction.

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http://www.worldnewstrust.com/wnt-reports/commentary/sarah-palin-is-the-future-of-conservatism-john-brown.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. you betcha.

if a political party really wants to commit suicide, what better way than to put their future in the hands of a female idiot, a clone of George Bush. She is as incurious as he. She never left the country (like him). She knew little about foreign and national issues. She does not read. She does not even understand the constitution. (unlike bush who merely trashed it).
Best of all, she will piss off all moderates, liberals, even stalwart GOPers who see her for what she is.

[Demeter]

2. Oh, I DO Hope So!

That would be a great way of separating the mentally incapacitated from the rest of us.

[Stellabella]

3. What, embracing deliberate and celebrated ignorance?

That should be the final nail in their coffin.

[Lint Head]

4. Then they have no future.

:dem:

[bemildred]

5. Some good points, but some of his logic does not follow.

It was not the "respectable right" that collapsed here, it was the reactionary, know-nothing right. Hopefully, in time, this will lead to the rise of a new, principled, and "reality based" right.

[Turk 182]

6. Palin represents the ultimate "Peter Principle"

If she remains politically active, I believe she may, hopefully, split the Republican Party in two; Her faction being the anti-intellectual, anti-education, know-nothing, don't confuse me with the facts, religious fundies who wagged the dog for the last 8 years, and a more earth-bound, realistic faction, more like the traditional party before Reagen. If this happens, they will be out of power for a long, long time. Just like the Dems have been because we split into a right-of-center faction(Reagen Dems) and a progressive left-of-center faction (McGovern and those who followed). Took us 30 years to get the party to unify enough against a common enemy to take back our country. Hopefully, it will take the Repugs even longer, because at least we didn't have(well, not too many) any Loony-Tune fundies to deal with.

[opihimoimoi]

8. The FANTASY PARTY.....she will head the new Political Party

[LynnTheDem]

7. EXCELLENT!!!!

Conservatism has NO FUTURE!!!

[Phred42]

9. How stupid do you have to be to actully WANT that?

THAT, is why I am frightened for the future of this country. One article said 64% of republicans WANT, actually WANT her to run in 2012. GeezuzGOD!

I have to stop now - I'm about to start channeling Malloy

[dazzlerazzle]

10. 64 percent want's Palin to run

But the poll as far as I can tell never included the most logical choice their party could make. Should he choose to make a run, General Petraeus would win their primary hands down.