Will no one rid us of this Palin?

Is Sarah Palin’s quitting her job a good career move? There’s a book to be ghostwritten, a television/radio gig to be gotten, and fund-raising to do, so I very much think so. Now, this creature unleashed by the incontinent John McCain can reach for her apotheosis in the party of resentment and reaction, with its ugly streaks of nativism and racism. Like the big fascisms of the past, Palinismo talks class, but her populism very much serves the big boys in power. Never mind the incompetence, the ethical rot, the incoherence, the bizarre, the contradictions, Sarah P. is for the people at the dark heart of the GOP’s freakshow tent.

William Kristol called Palin’s bail-out from the governor’s office a “genius move,” but then this Murdoch hireling of the Weakest Standards magazine has long been supremely cynical. He, after all, cut his teeth as a daddy’s boy by acting as “Dan Quayle’s brain.” Kristol’s a fan of Palin, but thinks she needs to take some lessons in policy. In other words, he realizes that image in politics trumps experience, skill, knowledge, and temperament. It’s been ever such since Reagan. Puppets, performers, actors, great communicators using other people’s words, that’s what fuckers like Kristol want to protect the master class. No matter that their choices are ethically rotten, vindictive, ignorant, and ultimately disastrous.

For in many ways, the disaster plays into their hands too. As the New York Senate shows, when you hijack the process, hamstring it, and otherwise alienate the polity, you (In NY it’s the the lobbyists, millionaires, real estate interests, etc) keep things the way you like them.