{"id":498,"date":"2010-02-06T23:22:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2010-02-06T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T03:22:14","slug":"one-last-word-the-daily-dish-by-andrew-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"One Last Word &#8211; The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\">\n<p>If you are one of those people who think this person cannot become president of the United States, think again. <\/p>\n<p>The media will never demand policy specifics from her; there is a huge constituency out there (rightly) outraged by Washington corruption and she now has the critical mantle of the rogue outsider; she can channel Christianism and fuse it with the slogans of phony &#8220;fiscal conservatism&#8221;; she will blame every lost job on Obama; and she will accuse him of betraying the troops and befriending America&#8217;s enemies. Behind her are the Cheneyites. Above all, she is capable of generating a personality cult &#8211; much, much more so than Obama, because she can harness Christianism to her divine destiny. The power of this kind of appeal &#8211; of a charismatic, beautiful woman, an icon of the pro-life cause, persecuted by the evil elites, demonized by libruls, and commanding the biggest military on earth &#8211; should not be under-estimated.<\/p>\n<p>Know fear.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/02\/one-last-word.html\">andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I could not agree more.. palin scares me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via web<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/sporks.posterous.com\/one-last-word-the-daily-dish-by-andrew-sulliv\">alex chan&#8217;s posterous<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are one of those people who think this person cannot become president of the United States, think again. The media will never demand policy specifics from her; there is a huge constituency out there (rightly) outraged by Washington corruption and she now has the critical mantle of the rogue outsider; she can channel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}