Palin and W: Separated at Birth?
This is what I've been thinking all along–that Sarah Palin is a distaff George W. Bush.Jonathan Chait over at The New Republic sums it up better than I ever could:
The enthusiasm generated by Palin shows that the party intends, wittingly or not, to replicate not just Bush's policies but his whole operating style. She is the most Bush-like figure conceivable. Jeb Bush would be a far more dramatic departure from the incumbent than [she would]. Her utter lack of interest in policy, her obsession with certitude (“you can't blink, you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission”), her folksiness masking incoherence–all reflect the style of The Decider. The way Palin filled her government with grossly unqualified high school cronies eerily apes even the Bushian qualities that many conservatives have come to regret.
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