Palin and the Ruling Class

the effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

--Karl Rove

Rove was speaking of Sarah Palin’s resignation as Alaska governor. He means Palin’s “strategy” for pursuing the presidency after in mid-term suddenly vacating her office as a small state governor is anything but clear.

Here's some clarity: Obama showed how a relatively young, inexperienced author, one who is good-looking, telegenic, with an attractive family, can completely upset the political apple cart. It helps if the author makes money from the book and related speeches.

Palin needs a good book. Not there yet.

Here’s what Obama proved to be: the perfect candidate to bring America’s ruling class back to its rightful place at the top of the political mountain. Obama personified the Ivy League-based power structure’s long-held dream of an America run by the right people on behalf of all of us—black, brown, female, gay, and secular, as well as white, straight, Christian, male.

Here’s what Palin will seek to be: the perfect candidate for all who view the liberal elite as a privileged class whose emphasis on big government manipulation of American business truly threatens our prosperity; an elite shielded by a superior, mocking media and entertainment conglomerate that practices personal destruction of those who challenge it.

Political pundits, part of the media conglomerate themselves, may miss the clarity of Palin’s struggle.