Comments on: The brilliance of Sarah Palin’s “common sense conservatism” http://blog.jim.com/party-politics/the-brilliance-of-sarah-palins-%e2%80%9ccommon-sense-conservatism%e2%80%9d.html Liberty in an unfree world Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:10:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: What Engagement Ring Settings Should You Opt For? | Info about quality jewellery http://blog.jim.com/party-politics/the-brilliance-of-sarah-palins-%e2%80%9ccommon-sense-conservatism%e2%80%9d.html/comment-page-1#comment-4741 What Engagement Ring Settings Should You Opt For? | Info about quality jewellery Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:08:55 +0000 http://blog.jim.com/?p=586#comment-4741 [...] The brilliance of Sarah Palin's “common sense conservatism … [...] [...] The brilliance of Sarah Palin's “common sense conservatism … [...]

]]> By: jim http://blog.jim.com/party-politics/the-brilliance-of-sarah-palins-%e2%80%9ccommon-sense-conservatism%e2%80%9d.html/comment-page-1#comment-3158 jim Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:42:33 +0000 http://blog.jim.com/?p=586#comment-3158 Yes, of course Sarah Palin is dead center of the American electorate. She is veering slightly to the right (center left of the Republican party) until such time as she has the nomination sewed up, while leaving herself sufficient room to move back to electoral center after the nomination - the standard trajectory for Republican presidential hopefuls. McCain and Obama on the other hand, represent the center of the Cathedral: the center of the New York Times, the center of the public service, and the center of the professoriat. McCain was the Cathedral candidate, rather than a Republican candidate, reflecting the the fact that the Cathedral hates Republicans and recently has gone pretty much insane with hate, so the Cathedral nominated a candidate for the Republican party that Republicans hated, and who hates Republicans - since no one who does not hate Republicans, and who Republicans do not hate, seemed normal or sane to them. Yes, of course Sarah Palin is dead center of the American electorate. She is veering slightly to the right (center left of the Republican party) until such time as she has the nomination sewed up, while leaving herself sufficient room to move back to electoral center after the nomination – the standard trajectory for Republican presidential hopefuls.

McCain and Obama on the other hand, represent the center of the Cathedral: the center of the New York Times, the center of the public service, and the center of the professoriat. McCain was the Cathedral candidate, rather than a Republican candidate, reflecting the the fact that the Cathedral hates Republicans and recently has gone pretty much insane with hate, so the Cathedral nominated a candidate for the Republican party that Republicans hated, and who hates Republicans – since no one who does not hate Republicans, and who Republicans do not hate, seemed normal or sane to them.

]]> By: Deep Lurker http://blog.jim.com/party-politics/the-brilliance-of-sarah-palins-%e2%80%9ccommon-sense-conservatism%e2%80%9d.html/comment-page-1#comment-3153 Deep Lurker Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:51:09 +0000 http://blog.jim.com/?p=586#comment-3153 Eric Raymond has an <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=481" rel="nofollow">interesting essay</a> from last year claiming that Sarah Palin is right on the center of the American political spectrum. That she seems to be right wing partly because she's been painted so, and partly because "preference falsification" has made the political center seem more to the left than it really is. I'm not sure he's correct, but I am convinced that if Palin is to the right of the American political median, it's not by very much. Which is a contrast to the way her opponents claim that she's a crazy-extremist-far-far-to-the-right-nut whose political base is down in the asterisks. Eric Raymond has an interesting essay from last year claiming that Sarah Palin is right on the center of the American political spectrum. That she seems to be right wing partly because she’s been painted so, and partly because “preference falsification” has made the political center seem more to the left than it really is.

I’m not sure he’s correct, but I am convinced that if Palin is to the right of the American political median, it’s not by very much. Which is a contrast to the way her opponents claim that she’s a crazy-extremist-far-far-to-the-right-nut whose political base is down in the asterisks.

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