The rhetoric of Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Rick Perry about the “real America” is not imagined: They and those who oppose them live in different Americas.
If Palin was on the McCain ticket for her sizzle, Perry might be on the next ticket for his faux cowboy image, just four years after the last Texan in a cowboy hat.
David Corn, Mother Jones Online. September 16, 2011.
It's a book that puzzles as much as it enlightens. There's a fine line between "wow!" and "really?"—and McGinniss is working both sides of that divide.
According to Palin insider Frank Bailey, the former Alaska governor cares little about governance and is instead consumed with image, vindictiveness, and reaping worldly rewards.
Right-wing efforts to cast passive government, unfettered markets, and wholesale tax resistance as the founding values of ordinary America have very little basis.
Has Palin finally tarnished her luster with her thoughtless remarks about the Giffords shooting, or will she turn this into yet another opportunity to play the victim?
The shooting in Tucson was not an anomaly. It was an inevitability, and as long as we play this foolish game of "both sides are just as bad," it will be inevitable again.
It's too soon to say what motivated the man apprehended for the shooting. But the Tea Party culture of political intimidation affirmed his violent impulses.
Tanya Melich, On The Issues Magazine. November 28, 2010.
GOP strategists are escalating the Republican War Against Women that has been going on since the '80s. They've organized a second front led by women to oppose the feminist agenda.
When Sarah Palin smugly announced that she was considering a 2012 run for the presidency, it set off a ripple of reactions ranging from shrugs to shrieks. Here are the best ones.
As Sarah Palin stays in the spotlight with her new nature show, we should keep in mind all the ways that the former Governor has added to environmental degradation.
Charlotte Taft, RH Reality Check. October 26, 2010.
There is a huge double standard for Sarah Palin and the "Mama Grizzlies" between the policies they want to impose on other women and the choices they want for themselves.
