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Sarah Palin has freed herself from all restraint on her actions. Now unburdened of the tiresome duties Governor she can please herself. She can go where she wants, say what she wants, and do what she wants. She need not listen to any advice that she dislikes, and can arrange not be given any advice she dislikes. No McCain campaign handlers or Alaskan Cabinet officers to challenge her. No state senators with whom she must negotiate. No voters to appease. She can act entirely on her own judgment. This could get very scary.
For 45 years the conservative movement successfully linked our pride in America to our latent fears and hatreds, using the former to paper over the latter. This conservative strategy failed in 2006 and 2008 but it remains the standard against which political tactics are measured. It failed not because we as a people are now less patriotic or more discerning, but because Karl Rove dismissed reality as altogether irrelevant to governing. The pathetic lightweights now leading the conservatives grew from infancy in the politics of demonization. They are not alone in this trap of failed tactics. Mainstream political analysts have also grown up during the years of conservative success. They too can imagine no politics except name-calling and no goal except winning today's news cycle. Because Obama does not attack he must be weak. Because he compromises he must lack conviction. They are wrong.
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