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Is the Sarah Palin VP nomination the dividing point in the Republican civil war?
posted by mikevotes at
7:58 AM
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I think Palin is the face of the dividing point in the GOP. I don't think that she herself is the dividing point. She represents a wing in the Repub party that is anti-intellectual, anti-democratic, militant-christianist, and, yes, slightly separationist (real America, vs. fake America) in their thinking. I'm unsure if they're seeking a cultural/religious apartheid, or if it's more of a cultural/religious cleansing -- re-education through government edict kind of stuff.
Her nomination of VP may have triggered a certain urgency to respond by other, more traditional, conservatives.
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-epm, at 8:52 AM
I'm sure she makes right-wing intellectuals and libertarians uneasy.
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Anonymous, at 9:25 AM
To me she's the over-confident small town Queen of the Trailer Court that is to stupid to know when they are in over their head.
She's playing to the Royal Trailer Court and they don't ask for much.
Her rallies seem to be the place where the most insecure and uneducated can gather and focus all their ills on "the other". They basically have broken down into an "Emmanuel Goldstein" 15 minutes of hate fest.
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matt, at 9:28 AM
should be 'too stupid'
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matt, at 10:08 AM
EPM, Definitely, she is not the middle, but support for her nomination does seem to cleave right down the ignorant vs educated faultline.
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Anon, She should. If she's the new face of the party, it's no longer their party.
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Matt, it is interesting that her appearances and McCain's appearances tend to draw very different audiences.
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Broadly, I think support/non-support is a very divisive and illustrative line.
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mikevotes, at 10:43 AM
She's very divisive in a campaign that was supposed to be inclusive and bring in moderates and independents.
She may draw the fringe, but this is the age of the internet and everyone in the nation is potentially and virtually in that crowd along with the nuts.
We all hear what she says, and she says it to moderates and independents alike.
As I've pointed out before, there seems to be a correlation between Palin's campaign stops and Obama gains in states. Her message is getting out, but to an unintended crowd.
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Todd Dugdale , at 10:15 PM
I assume you saw the bit in the NBC poll showing that she was the top detraction against McCain, even bigger than Bush.
And, again, I was not saying that Palin marks the middle of the divide, but HER SELECTION, and the opinions of that selection are the dividing line between the two GOP groups.
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mikevotes, at 10:22 PM
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