Frank Schaeffer: Sarah Palin Will Never Be President -- Trust Me - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Feb 09
  

  garymcxing

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• 15 Nov 08
  

  Clay Burell

  Good analysis. Let's hope it's true.

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  • Sarah Palin will never hold national office nor will any Republican at the presidential level for a long time to come. Why? Because America has uneducated jerks in it but is not a nation of uneducated jerks. The Republicans are done, hoisted on the petard of their own "southern strategy."

    
    
    

    The Republican Party is only a step away from becoming the fringe of the fringe, identified more with cross-burning weirdoes wearing hoods, folks like the Alaska secessionist party, all those gun owners stocking up on assault weapons before the "Socialist/United Nations/Obama/Muslim" conspiracy comes to fruition, than with anything remotely like a serious national political force.

    
    
    

    The Republican Party--and I speak as a former lifelong Republican who, up through the 2000 primary campaign supported John McCain and even worked for him by arguing his case on various conservative and religious radio stations--is now the toy of the Rush Limbaugh windbags. These folks include outright crazies (such as Sarah Palin's Assemblies of God pals who are waiting for Spaceship Jesus to rescue them and/or rooting out "witches" from their midst), white racists and a few not-very-bright attention seekers, including Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity etc.

  • The Religious Right, the racists, the anti-gay hate-mongers are now not only marginalized but thoroughly out of step with even members of their own former constituency. For instance the Gordon College student newspaper (Gordon is an influential Evangelical College north of Boston) endorsed Obama this year. Many young evangelicals voted for the Democrats. James Dobson, Fox News, Limbaugh et al. were utterly powerless to do more than stir up hate. They are losing the next generation of their "base."

    
    
    

    Meanwhile many former Republicans--like me--ran to Obama as fast as our legs could carry us and away from our willfully "we're not an elite" moronic former party. Republican commentators such as David Brooks and George Will mourned the loss of the Republican center. Others noted the Republicans have become anti-intellectual. "Anti-intellectual?" They wish! How about simply anti-literate?

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  • • What's the best defense against the rube/Palin voters derailing the Republican Party forever? If the statistics of who voted for whom are correct, the education of white people in the deep South and their economic empowerment is the best answer. Maybe it will take a black Democratic president to figure out some affirmative action program that can get our southern born-again white underclass into colleges and thereby save the Republican party.

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        Clay Burell on 2008-11-15

        Yes. Lack of education is what allows people to be fundamentalists who vote the fundamentalist ticket.
• 13 Nov 08
  

  Aaron Fanley

  By Frank Schaeffer and said as only he can, he explains why.

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  The small smear of red on the otherwise blue electoral map
  looks more like a minor bloodstain on a dirty Band-Aid than anything
  resembling a national political party. Who voted for McCain/Palin in
  bigger numbers than they even voted for Bush/Cheney? On

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  Clay Burell on 2008-11-15
  Yes. Lack of education is what allows people to be fundamentalists who vote the fundamentalist ticket.

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