Sarah Palin - the anti-politician

As an ObamaCon, I've been attracted by what I've seen of Barack Obama.  In part, though, I've been pushed away from some things about the contemporary Republican Party that I dislike; there's too much authoritarianism, too much Big Government and Big Business.  A party of "insiders" - be it Westminster village or Washington beltway - can never speak for my brand of centre-right politics.

All of which makes the appointment of Sarah Palin so inspired.  It's her very ordinariness, her folksiness that is part of her appeal. 

Is it too late for them to switch it round from a McCain-Palin ticket, to a Palin-Mccain one? 

Posted on 4 September 2008 by Douglas Carswell

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Douglas, are you then entirely unaware of Obama's Marxist heritage? Where do you get the idea that Obama will not be authoritarian, big government and co-opting big business? He is Tony Blair with a tan. The consequences of an Obama presidency will be no different than what "the pretty straight kinda guy" left in Britain: an appallingly invasive, nannying state, corruption, incompetence and a wrecked economy. I'll put a fiver on it.

Posted on 4 September 2008 21:22 by Obnoxio The Clown

Douglas. There is a case for thinking that the DNC was more about Hillary 2012 than Obama 2008.

Unless I've missed something important in the US media. BO appears to be losing his grip to the Democratic aristocracy. I have a worrying thought that by November, he will be morphed into just another pork farmer in the US political landscape, under the control of the faceless unelectables that rule the Democrats.

Posted on 5 September 2008 15:00 by grumpy old man

So Sarah Palin skims across the Alaskan landscape in low flying aircraft rifle shooting protected species like polar bears and Arctic foxes for sport.
Just one of the boys then.

Posted on 6 September 2008 20:52 by David McEwan Hill

The Commons rules on the spending of the Communications Allowance on websites forbids criticism of other MPs. How do you get away with it?

Posted on 7 September 2008 12:30 by Paul Goddard

I pay for this site myself - see below. It allows me to say what I think. Not what the "men-in-tights" rules permit.

Posted on 7 September 2008 13:43 by Douglas Carswell MP

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