[lbo-talk] distancing technique?

[Max Sawicky]

The Tea Party may be the tail and Palin the dog.
It's not clear she would in any way affront the interests
bankrolling the GOP.  For one thing, her foreign policy
guy is a neo-con.  There's a big piece on her personal
political operation in the NYT magazine today.  Also a
typically good piece by Frank Rich in the Week in Review.

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> > Perhaps I'm dull today, but I don't catch the link between subject line
> and
> > the quote from Kristol. What, allegedly, is being distanced from what?
>
> I think Doug is asking if Kristol's remarks are part of an effort by
> GOP bosses to distance themselves from the Tea Party rabble who helped
> them surge to victory but whose political programs they, the bosses,
> don't really have much interest in carrying out. Seems right to me.
> Though it should be said in my neck of the woods, major dickhead Rick
> Perry has if anything ratcheted up the nativist nonsense since being
> reelected. For now.
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