In the stockyard business, you have a bunch of animals in a pen, and you need to move them into a building for slaughter. Now, cows and sheep aren’t stupid, but they are not smart either. So, with sheep especially, you get a special animal.
You get and train a Judas goat.
What is a Judas goat?
A Judas goat is an animal trained to lead the herd into the slaughter house. Once the animals get going on the “follow-the-leader,” they take care of themselves. So, you train the leader goat, the Judas goat, to lead the rest. Of course, you don’t slaughter your Judas goat, but the rest have a bad, bad day.
That’s Sarah Palin. She’s a Judas goat. She is attractive, both in personality and in her physical person. She has a compelling story, which many women find very interesting and which has apparently convinced many to follow her.
But she is a Judas goat. Her policies are all antithetical to everything that women need. She doesn’t do anything about violence against women, violence against kids, wages for women, choice, or any policy that any woman might be interested in.
She’s pushing the line from “Animal Farm”. In “Animal Farm,” the pigs pushed the line “Four legs good, two legs bad.” That’s Sarah Palin’s line: “Skirts are good, pants are bad.” It’s identity politics at the most basic level, and the only way it works is if people do not look closely.
Will the Judas goat strategy work? Time will tell, but I doubt it. If women were sheep, they would follow the Judas goat. But women are not sheep. They are thinking persons, and are extremely good at cutting through the crap.