Sarah Palin is back, using her book, Going Rogue, as a prop. From all indications she ain’t going away — which may be why passions, pro and con, are so intense about her.
There seems no middle ground when it comes to Palin — some of it understandable, most of it puzzling.
If she’s a ditz, an airhead as some insist, someone without the depth or substance to be president, why worry about her? The electorate will catch on. So why do Democrats slag her at every opportunity?
If she’s a genuine threat to be a contender for power on the Republican side, why are so many Republicans uneasy about her? Uneasy? Heck, some froth at the mouth.
Regardless, she’s a phenomenon of our times — arguably the only Republican at the moment with star power. Now that she’s back, and appearing on various conservative talk shows — Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, as well as those middle-America favourites, Oprah and Barbara Walters — another aspect of Sarah Palin is coming into focus that possibly is her greatest asset.
She is eminently likeable on TV. This is a quality she shares with Ronald Reagan who, if one remembers, was initially dismissed by self-styled intellectual elites as a dumbo, grade-B movie actor and mad bomber before he won the election and became Ronald Reagan, one of the greatest of U.S. presidents who won the Cold War.
With her book tour bus, complete with her portrait on the side, Palin is obviously taking aim at heartland America — her constituency, that is immune to the appeals of the elite like Barack Obama.
One can understand the unease of Democrats, especially with Obama’s charisma fading with every questionable policy, soaring deficit and economic setback.
But why are some Republicans so hostile?
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