The Spectator
Astonishing Scenes as Sarah Palin Says Something Useful...
By Alex Massie
Sarah Palin has provided us with a helpful distillation of what Newt Gingrich's campaign is all about:
At the weekend the ex-house speaker, Newt Gingrich had an endorsement from the former front-runner, Herman Cain, and the Florida Tea Party. But his biggest backing, and probably the most influential, has come from the 2008 V-P candidate, Sarah Palin who went on Fox TV yesterday to say, "if for no other reason, rage against the machine, vote for Newt; annoy a liberal, vote Newt. Keep this vetting process* going, keep the debate going".
Since annoying liberals is Mrs Palin's secondary** goal in life she knows well of what she speaks. It's not quite fair on Newt Gingrich to suggest he's cut from the same cloth as the former governor of Alaska but his campaign really does amount to little more than what Mrs Palin suggests is does: raging against the machine and annoying liberals. This is fine as entertainment but hopelessly inadequae for serious politics.
Mike Smithson gets close to the point but then misses it quite spectacularly:
If by any chance Newt does pull it off, it will tell us a great deal about the political influence of Sarah Palin***.
Since Newt will not be the Republican party's nominee one may also safely say that Sarah Palin's "political influence" is as hefty and consequential as it deserves to be.
*I know, the hilarity!
**The first is exalting Mrs Palin.
***But even if he did it would only tell us something about Mitt Romney's inadequacies and the foolishness of Florida's voters.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/7615710/astonishing-scenes-as-sarah-palin-says-something-useful.thtml
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