[lbo-talk] Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Dec 5 11:24:46 PST 2008


Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
> I'm beginning to think that Palin was picked by McCain to offer liberals,
> and the queer Tories who kinda like them, a distraction from Obama's coming
> imperial adventures, which most libs will support anyway. When someone says,
> "Hey -- Obama's committing war crimes!", liberals can reply, "Forget that!
> Look what Sarah Palin's saying now!"

As I said in a post yesterday, "The RP eixts mostly to make the DP look good." But your point may be better. There's no way to make the DP look good, but perhaps the RP can at least distract attention.

Carrol



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