It’s not clear to me how driving a bus across the country can contribute to the fundamental restoration of America. The language is a bit odd. I suppose the Tea Party is a form of Political Fundamentalism, in the sense that it appeals to the inerrant original intent of the slave-owning Founding Fathers and their three-fifths of a person solution to the Negro problem. But ‘restoration’ resonates with a different religious undertone. It’s as if the Holy Church of America has been corrupted, spawned a Reformation, and now must be restored. I suppose you could look at the Civil Rights Era as the Reformation. Sarah’s bringing the Restoration. We won’t go back to the old ways entirely, but something’s gotta be done about this.
As Jesus General so aptly observes:
At first, I couldn’t figure out why Sister Sarah is so angry about Bristol’s new boyfriend, Kyle Massey. I mean, hey, he ain’t Levi, and Bristol needs a good man to practice abstinence with anyway. You’d think that’d be enough.
But then I saw the suitor’s photo and immediately understood Mrs. Palin’s rage. It’s all there in Mr. Massy’s eyes: the anti-colonialism, the Muslimishness, the crypto-Kenyanicity, the secret socialism, and a latent proclivity to produce birth certificates that can’t pass the Taitz test.
It’s no wonder Sister Sarah is so pissed off. This man is going to steal her daughter’s innocence by teaching sweet Bristol how to fist bump.
I wish Kyle and Bristol every happiness. She sure knows how to get her mom’s goat.
I’m thinkin it must be a harsh legal stretch for Bristol to head out of state with that kid, leaving behind the father.
And someone, please, take Sarah’s baby to a stable home, that kid has been dragged around since hours before his birth, and now a bus tour?
I hadn’t heard son Track had a pain killer addiction (fixed by his new wife — yeah, that always works)
How terribly… “Rush” of him… or predictable that newly rich Alaskan white trash would have a Hillbilly Heroin addiction.
Of course on a right wing board I recently visited the topic for the day was how inattentive parents were singularly to blame for drug addiction.
Personally, I think folks are missing the point of this “bus tour”. From Benen:
Okay, if you view Palin as primarily a politician (focused on career advancement) or as a camera-hogging egomaniac a la Trump (focused on self promotion) then Benen’s point has some salience. It doesn’t seem to help the former much, and there are much better ways to do the latter.
On the other hand, if you view Palin primarily as an extraordinary grifter who has figured out that you can legally fleece rubes via the USA’s campaign contribution system and use that money for anything you want so long as you can make a decent argument to the FEC that it’s for “political campaign purposes”, the bus tour makes more sense.
She’s getting a family summer vacation paid for by her campaign contributors. They get to go tour the famous landmarks of the US, attend some parties, maybe have her speak her nonsense at a few rallies, and do it all on the dime of “SarahPAC”. All of it collected and expended quite legally according to US campaign finance laws, so her rubes don’t even have any legal recourse once they realize they’ve been fleeced (if they ever do).
Spent even more freely if she never declares. I guess then she is just taking advantage of the kindness of strangers. 🙂
My prediction is that she teases out the possibility of a presidential run all summer and then waits for some kind of negative story in the press to run, cries about the “liberal media” saying horrible, hurtful things about her/her family, and says that she just can’t do that to her children this year.
Emphasis on the “this year” part and the “keeping her options open for a 2016 run” part. Because the marks have to keep hope if you expect to be able to keep fleecing them.
In a way, it’s a lot like Harold Camping and his perpetual Rapture con.
I might go even further that she and tea partiers come convention time absolutely stop caring about nominating anyone who might win and instead the GOP convention becomes a circus of tea partiers complaining loudly — simply on “patriotic principle” and Palin and perhaps a few other clowns simply because it makes them money.
I think she could make enough of a stink the she gets a speaking spot even while complaining that the party has nominated a communist.
Well… it would be good television anyway. — which is all Sarah really wants.