"With Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity on her side, Palin hardly needs the grandees of the so-called Republican establishment. They know it and flail at her constantly. Politico reported just before Election Day that unnamed “party elders” were nearly united in wanting to stop her, out of fear that she’d win the nomination and then be crushed by Obama. Their complaints are seconded daily by Bush White House alumni like Karl Rove, Michael Gerson, and Mark McKinnon, who said recently that Palin’s “stock is falling and pretty rapidly now” and that “if she’s smart, she does not run.” This is either denial or wishful thinking. The same criticisms that the Bushies fling at Palin were those once aimed at Bush: a slender résumé, a lack of intellectual curiosity and foreign travel, a lazy inclination to favor from-the-gut improvisation over cracking the briefing books. These spitballs are no more likely to derail Palin within the G.O.P. than they did him."
- Frank Rich, (via azspot)
Big, big difference. Bush was just the Zoolander of the real machine: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Powell, Addington, and Rove.
These were 30 year in-the-making relationships. Rumsfeld and Cheney were BFFs from the Ford administration. This was a neo-con cabal, where no one would delineate from the predetermined message.
Palin has none of this.
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