Paraphrasing Digby [do click the home link, too, to view just yesterday's posts):
Sarah Palin is a product of the Rove/Delay big-box-store-type selling of right-wing supremacy: the "you, too, can win elections and screw those you envy" political handbook that teaches you how to swift-boat your opponent and, once you gain office, how to: (1) dangle red meat idealogical, supposed battles to the extremists of your party; (2) immediately fire everyone whose opinion may differ with your own (God forbid you'd expose yourself to contrary or, even worse, thought-provoking, views) and, (3) thereby, enable you to hire other political hacks beholden to you whose incompetence will gum up the works of government enough to overthrow American social order and be supplanted by fascism.
Orthogonian: Because only readers of Perlstein's Nixonland know what the term Orthoginian means, we need to come up with an acronym or new term that conveys to others who haven't read it the wealth of the concept: a suspicious, envious, authoritarian, revengeful, me-first, materialistic envier of wealth who knows how to tap into the cynicism of others so as to ensure votes for him/herself and like-minded [bat-shit crazy] others who you can intimidate to create your very own dictatorship, where it surprises no one who hears you say "If I do it, it means it's not illegal"!
The best thing about the Palin nomination is that it has forced party-faithful Republican men to stand up and say things they totally don't believe, like "sexism is wrong," and "a woman's place does not have to be in the kitchen or nursery."
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