According to a Pew poll, Sarah Palin's approval rating among Republicans stood at 73 percent last week while her major rival for the 2012 GOP nomination enjoyed favorability ratings of 57 percent among the party faithful. Romney now holds a 25-24 percent lead over Palin in a new Rasmussen poll.
Palin, who until last week's abrupt resignation announcement stood as the favorite for 2012, played the role of "stupid" in the liberal script. Past performers include Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Dan Quayle, and, most recently, George W. Bush. Mitt Romney, a bright and articulate man who ran a Fortune 500 business, the state of Massachusetts, and the Salt Lake City Olympic Games, isn't well cast as "stupid." Not to worry: the liberal script offers conservatives a second role, "evil." As the latest incarnation of "evil," Mitt Romney follows in the footsteps of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, and Newt Gingrich. In case you didn't know his role, Romney's black hat--a helmet of finely combed, Aquanetted raven's hair--provides a clue.
If you've read John Stuart Mill or Samuel Francis, you're already familiar with the stupid party v. evil party dichotomy. And if you have read Ann Coulter's Slander, the taxonomy of GOP leaders into "stupid" and "evil" is similarly familiar. If you happen to have been blissfully unaware of any of these writers, then simple awareness of the political scene probably alerted you to these two typecasts of Republicans. There is, course, a third classification: the "token," never called that by his benefactors at PBS or the New York Times, who hire the token to reliably bash other Republicans while always professing his or her GOP bona fides. But three is too complex a concept for you stupid Republicans, so let us concern ourselves with just "stupid" and "evil."
Should "stupid" win the Republican nomination, she will face a man smarter than Einstein, more articulate than Cicero, and a better dinner guest than Truman Capote. Should "evil" win the Republican nomination, he will go toe-to-toe with a president who ranks somewhere above God on the depth chart of moral beings.
Stupid doesn't beat smart. So why are the partisans of the Highbrain in Chief kicking "stupid" when she is down? Evil, on the other hand, has been known to triumph over good. Do the authors of the "stupid" and "evil" script know what they are getting into by casting "evil" to play the lead villain?
Evil versus good always makes for a good story, which, after last week's spectacle of stupid is as stupid does, is what the 2012 election narrative is shaping up to be.
The following sums up the party differences and what it will take for us to beat the sleazy low down centrist, socialist, libs who have wrestled control of the Dem Party.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDE3MmE5MDVmMGM1YjQ2NmVhMjJkN2I2ZTcxMzhlNjU
Conservatives/GOPers bring a knife to a gun fight? That's about right.
If those daffy dems. think this womans stupid, why they so skeerd of her. PALIN 2012! make'em piss their panties girl.
oh, what a good point.
but is there not also a hybrid evil-stupid role - the true contrast to the godly-genius?
