by Linda Thieman
While word on the street has it here in Iowa that the Palin choice (can those two words actually appear in the same sentence without the world imploding?) has energized the progressive community in ways unseen since the early days of the Dean campaign, Palin appears to be falling flat even on the McCain circus campaign trail when left unscripted.But what is actually shocking is a claim made by England's Daily Telegraph that Palin has been a neocon plant all along.
From the Huffington Post's report on the Daily Telegraph article:
The architects of the Palin Doctrine are a group of people who have been singularly wrong about virtually everything in the last decade -- the neocons, who have been briefing Palin for weeks.
As predicted, the fact that she didn't know anything wasn't a bug, it was a feature. She's perfect for the neocons: likeable on the outside, a blank slate on the inside. To borrow from an old cliché, if Sarah Palin didn't exist, the neocons would have had to invent her. [BFIA Note: Seems to me they ARE inventing her.]
Of course, the place her neocon mentors hope she's going is the White House. Given their dismal track record, they're smart enough to figure that the American public wouldn't be too keen on letting them in the front door again, so they are trying to sneak in hidden behind Palin's skirt. The Trojan Moose approaches.
The Daily Telegraph details how the neocon talent scouts spotted their political Eliza Doolittle back in the summer of '07. The love connection began, appropriately enough, on a love boat:
"Sources in the McCain camp, the Republican Party and Washington think tanks say Mrs. Palin was identified as a potential future leader of the neoconservative cause in June 2007. That was when the annual summer cruise organised by the right-of-center Weekly Standard magazine docked in Juneau, the Alaskan state capital, and the pundits on board took tea with Governor Palin."
Thanks to Trish Nelson for submitting this excerpt.
