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I was looking at this post on Donklephant and it became very apparent to me that John McCain and Sarah Palin have achieved exactly what they’ve set out to do: they’ve focused their campaign on small towns and rural areas, explaining to them how much they love “real” America and the “pro-America” parts of this country. And guess what? Those areas comprise a much smaller plot of land in this country and a much smaller population than they realized.
In addition, this observation shows up, in particular, what I’ve been saying all along about Palin: she loves Alaska and all that is unique about its 670,000 residents. But she completely lacks the desire let alone the knowledge to face all of the 300 million residents of the rest of the United States. She loves the idea that she could be vice president of such an entity, and impact so many people’s lives. It’s a bigger pageant after all. But she has shown no inclination to get into the minds and needs and wants of all 300 million.
John McCain and Sarah Palin wish that they could govern just the people in the real America, as they define it. But they’ve turned their eyes from the real America – the incredibly diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-religious, sexual orientationally diverse entity that is the United States of America.
While they’ve been emphasizing “America,” they’ve ignored the “United States” part of the name of our country and sought, truly, to divide the States from one another and the populations within the States between themselves.
Perhaps Sarah Palin hasn’t been a member of the Alaska Independent Party – ever or for years. And let’s even hypothesize that Palin and her husband, Todd, who was a member of the secessionist group for several years, absolutely positively never discussed such things.
The fact remains that in her deeds and her words, Sarah Palin espouses the politics of division, of secession, of separating what she sees as the wheat and the chafe. I don’t need any labels or party names to slap on what I can see and sense. The projected electoral maps are just more support for this explanation of the results reaped by the tactics and strategies of the McCain-Palin campaign.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:03 am October 25th, 2008 in Campaigning, Elections, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin, WH2008
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The thing that really scares…I mean really scares me is that the GOP will polish this act and it will come back again and they may achieve success. They just have the wrong messengers…but perhaps they are supposed to be the worng messengers. It is about prepping people for the message. They are doing that. They are instilling in the minds and hearts of many the message of division, intolerance and HATE.
Watch how sharp and polished they come back around.
Sista, I’m going to respectfully disagree with you on this one. I actually think that our country is far more tolerant of and interested in diversity than McCain-Palin. I believe that that interest SCARES people – but I believe that people are realistic enough to recognize the demographic trend realities of our country.
Again – that may scare the beehoozus out of some people, but the fact that there are so many conservatives even who write about how Obama is a transformational figure – I think that tells us that there is broad-based acknowledgement that we HAVE to change to survive and be strong – we have to. Those who stick their head in the sand will suffocate, Babz. They will suffocate from their own refusal and fear.
I am fearful too – there are things I am not confident about re: Obama, but I also have trust in the system overall AND in people.
We have to – what is our alternative?
Big cities pay the bills, the federal system spreads out the wealth and the rural population is not carrying anyone. So the republican mantra could be considered a contradiction in reality. The 20% that represent “true America” are subsidized through dispersions. Alaska is the 3rd most subsidized states in the Union, Arizona is 21st, Illinois 45th and Delaware 44th. So those that claim somebody want to spread the wealth around…it is already being spread around and they are on the receiving end of it. Red states get more and pay less, its that simple.
Oengus – that is a great comment – I can see that, absolutely. Also supports what we’ve learned about Alaska and the success of earmarks and Ted Stevens and Palin having a lobbyist for her small town when she was mayor.
Thanks very much for sharing that – very interesting.
I don’t do superlatives often, Jill this may be one of you best articles.
I remember how I always longed for the last stanza of a church hymn….because it marked the END of the service.
McCain and Palin’s wingnutty campaign, literally, is the modern conservative movement’s last stanza.
The anti-science, pro-intolerance group in America accounts for only 40% of our citizenry, at best. After a generation, that number will be reduced even more ….and so on.
Conventional wisdom used to be that the sun revolved around the earth. It took time for all that to change.
America’s rejection of the McCain-Palin clusterf*ck of nonsensical hypocrisy, flip-flops and incoherency….is all a good sign that the end of the conservative national church service is at hand.