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Time to Expose Her As a Phoney

The time is fast approaching to unmask Mrs. Palin for what she is: a complete forgery. The Republicans tried to pick this fight on cultural grounds, and on cultural grounds Democrats now have a very clear opening to destroy her.

She's already been exposed as the "Fake it 'til you make it" candidate on the issues, on which it's clear she has no clue what she's talking about. That's the foot in the door. Now you knock the door down by going after the central premise of the way the GOP marketed her: that she's a regular, small town, working class mom.

She ain't. Not by a long shot. Small town, working class moms don't have three houses. They don't have their own sea plane (suitable for shooting wolves from 1000 feet). They don't install tanning beds in the governor's mansion. They don't give their kids pretentious names. They don't look like they came out of Hollywood central casting. They don't spew venom at everyone they disagree with. They have values that tell them not to abuse their power to go after a former in-law and then fight the subpoenas and the investigation when they get caught.

If the roles were reversed and you gave this set of facts to a GOP campaign, they'd have their boots on the Democratic candidate's throat in a heartbeat. What the GOP is doing with Palin is daring the Democrats to sack up and do the same. They're saying, "We already sold America a fake cowboy the past two elections, you can't stop us this time either." Well, that's a challenge we need to take up this time around.

The economy will win this election for Obama. Exposing Palin as a fraud to rural and small town America is what can blow this open into a very comfortable victory, because small town America is going to be pissed once they find out the GOP has been selling them a bad bill of goods.

She's the fake it 'til you make it candidate, and, even more, she's not the heroine of America's small communities. She's the candidate of America's gated communities.

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by: ecotect @ Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 13:26:29 PM CDT