America's Adorable Mascot!

[ Like Wally the Green Monster, Baxter the Bobcat, the Mariner Moose and other giant furry creatures who accompany major-league baseball teams from game to game, Palin is the adored mascot of the anti-fiscal crowd. Her actual performance as mayor and governor counts for little beside her capacity to keep the fans happy during the intervals between play, which she does in the style she developed as mayor of Wasilla and then perfected in her triumphant gubernatorial campaign in 2006. Transcripts and videos from her time in Alaska show her parlaying the barest minimum of rhetorical and intellectual resources into a formidable electoral weapon. The least one can say of her is that she quickly learned how to make the most of herself. <br /> <br />…from: "Cut, Kill, Dig, Drill" by Jonathan Raban <br />London Review of Books, 9 October 2008 <br />http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/raba01_.html <br />

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