Teabag Populist
by digby
O’REILLY: You’re a populist.
PALIN: A populist, yes.
O’REILLY: Do you know what they’re calling you now?
PALIN: No.
O’REILLY: Evita.
PALIN: Well.
O’REILLY: Eva Peron.
PALIN: Uh-huh.
O’REILLY: That’s who they’re calling you now.
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O’REILLY: Do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?
PALIN: I believe that I am because I have common sense. And I have, I believe, the values that are reflective of so many other American values. And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the kind of a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fact resume that’s based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership. I’m not saying that has to be me.
I doubt Palin had ever heard of Evita. It’s not her kind of movie.
But her definition of herself is what right wing populism is all about. Plus racism.
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