Several blogs are buzzing this morning with Susan Estrich’s apparent rapture over Todd Palin, and rightfully so. Here’s the item she had on top yesterday:
Back From the Dark Side?
The important thing to note in this is not the school-girl rapture over a manly hunk, but the careful undercutting of the Messiah and all that he represents. Estrich is no conservative, neo or otherwise. She has always been hard-core liberal and at the highest level in the Democratic Party apparatus. She was the national campaign manager for Michael Dukakis during his presidential run. Despite that ideological misstep one has to admit that she is undeniably intelligent.
If she so clearly articulates the viewpoint of Obama’s elitist, chardonnay-and-brie, Ivy League-and-Hollywood positioning then it is significant. If she understands the underlying belief of the American people that they seek realism in their candidates, we have a huge acknowledgment of the possibility of a continual deterioration of the once insurmountable lead of the man who would be king. The low tolerance for posturing and pandering is coming into view.
The accelerating unmasking of this pretender to the throne as he increasingly resorts to innuendo, mis-truths, and sound-bite negativism has opened the door for even the most inveterate liberal political minds to come back from the dark side.
2 comments:
From the article you linked to:
"Obama is in Beverly Hills, cavorting with Barbra Streisand not because he'd rather do that than snowmobiling, but because in fact he must. But the mere fact that he can is damning, not to mention time-consuming.
So the Republican are the populists on billionaire bailouts and the Democrats are debating the fundamentals of the economy. Why not blame the Republicans for the deregulation that led to the crisis? Why not point out who has been president for the last eight years, as things have gotten out of control and fallen apart?"
True.
That would be a dandy point of view except it isn't the Executive Branch of government that regulates. The Separation of Powers and the reality as it stands dictate that CONGRESS and not the Executive Branch are at fault for the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae failures and resultant bailouts. Congress failed to regulate and manage things, they abrogated their responsibility and it was BOTH parties that failed in this current economic crisis.
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