Dan Riehl of Riehl World View and Erick Erickson of Redstate join me to discuss the Tea Party Nation, Tea Party groups and Sarah Palin. What's happening here?
I got lost in the vortex of Bloggingheads hell and ended up listening to Michelle Goldberg and Ann Althouse yelling at each other. Michelle threatens to bail on the call when Ann pins her down on her inarticulate defense of Barack Obama's memoir Dreams Of My Fathers. Michelle can't defend analogizing Obama to Tolstoy and threatens to bail. She smoothed her hair and soldiered on.
Identity politics grate on most conservatives, or they did until Sarah Palin came along. Most conservatives who loved Sarah Palin, didn't love her because she was the best looking woman on TV--forget in politics. Most conservatives loved her conservative ideals and her connection to average Americans.
Wouldn't it be nice if no one was pushing back against the leftist, state-growing agenda? It would be bad for America, but great for Democrats. It would be bad for America, but great for establishment Republicans. I bet John McCain really wonders about what he's wrought.
Conservative authors have said that Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder and Andrew Sullivan has made me a believer. He is Exhibit A: hallucinating his way through a serious case of Sarah Palin hate. But Andrew Sullivan is only the most shriekingly obvious deranged lib. The mainstream media [Newsweek, NBC, WaPo] makes itself look even more addled and irrelevant with the way they treat Sarah Palin.
Wow. That's gotta be galling for Oprah to know that coddling Obama cost her so much. Meanwhile, a visit by Sarah Palin nets her the best ratings in years:
Dan Riehl is right, this is not going to end well. Levi Johnson keeps parents of teenage girls awake at night--and it's not because they're looking at his scintillating Playgirl pictures. He's exactly the kind of guy they don't want their daughters to consort with ever. And here he is, exploiting his child's family yet again. And he's disgusted?
The Sarah Palin - Oprah interview couldn't have been more different than the Sarah Palin - Rush interview. I watched the Oprah interview yesterday after having not watched the Oprah Show in years. I listened to Rush today after listening intermittently for years. If I tell you how long, you'll realize I'm older than I look, so I won't tell you.