In many ways Palin reminds me a great deal of GW Bush circa 1996. . . .when he emerged on the national scene at the RNC Convention. She has thrived with a simple focused ideology and natural charisma. She is a great lobbyist. She can sell the message with great enthusiasm and charisma and charm. . . . whatever the message is and whatever connection to reality it has.
On another note, the dems get accused of empty rhetoric by republicans who now pimp this 'country first' theme. so much empty rhetoric being sold by the republicans. and the republicans love this theme of washington is broken and it takes us mavericks to fix it. that was bush's theme and it seems that he purposely tried to break washington e.g. w/ underfunding to agencies like FDA, EPA, 'Brownie' etc. Fool me once . . . not gonna fool me again. Republicans want 'washington' to not work . . . not to work better, but not to work. . . until their policies result in a crisis that they are forced to react to by an outraged public. but they spew empty rhetoric conveying the opposite.
