Sarah Palin’s new book ‘America
She makes no particular effort to
show that she is ‘learned’ but that is an affectation of academe and often
obscures than reveals. Her heroes are
Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge and the Founders of
course. These are not bad mentors to have.
Elitists who continue to be
allergic to the ideas and thinking that informs the American people will reject
this book out of hand. Everyone else
will find in this stalwart of traditional values plenty to take comfort in.
I think that the genuineness of
her beliefs will continue to support a continual broadening of her political
base into the center and that the only candidate able to actually challenge her
is Mitt Romney who appeals to the same constituency for the same reasons. Since they obviously respect each other, we
are likely to see them working closely whatever the final shakeout there.
The book itself deals with
prayer, mama grizzly feminism, and American exceptionalism and related
themes. Perhaps Sarah Palin is the
proper answer to the question of political feminism that has been drifting and
lacking conviction for so many years.
In a country in which the
electorate has watched their reps been bought off one way or the other over the
past two decades in the most obvious fashion, Sarah has taken the high road in
such a way as to empower many other like minded people. Remember that the Tea Party is all about Washington
If she becomes president, and I
think she will be or so close as to barely matter, she will have the mandate to
end our recent version of crony capitalism.
I do not think that this movement will be particularly stoppable either.
This is good book that affirms
our beliefs in good citizenship. It is
well worth the read.
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