Wednesday, November 11, 2009
"Sarah Palin and the Dysfunctional Political Class"
It's sad that this conclusion is so right.
Americans are driven by forces that aren't likely to lead to different/better outcomes...
Americans are driven by forces that aren't likely to lead to different/better outcomes...
James V. DeLong writes this and more at PajamasMedia.com:
"The frenetic hostility to Sarah Palin, even by many on the Republican side, is unnerving, because her qualifications to be president are objectively better than those of almost anyone who has been on the national ticket over the past decade.
A reasonable conclusion is that these qualifications are precisely the cause of the hostility. To admit to the reality that the dominant political class, including the MSM and the punditocracy of both parties, has been giving us abysmal presidential candidates, to accept that a hockey mom plucked from small-town Alaska is better than the best that the political class can come up with, would require recognition of the terrible truth that the system has become deeply dysfunctional. Doing this would force our political elites to look into an abyss of serious questions about the functioning of our democracy. Palin creates a cognitive dissonance so intense that it simply cannot be accepted."
