The fundamental right-left, blue-red political divide undoubtedly remains, but American conservatism won’t recover from this election.
That’s because the liberal media, for so long taunted by the conservative media, has its revenge: Sarah Palin. Her career is going to be sustained by the liberal media because she’s a willing and able performer (indeed, a major press hound) and because her presence makes the inescapable point: On the one hand we’ve got St. Barack, on the other hand, this absurd confection.
Alessandra Stanley’s coverage of Palin in today’s Times is an illustration of what the conservatives are up against: They’ve been reduced to Sarah Palin, a phenomenon which the media finds endlessly weird and entertaining.
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All those angry, nasty,
virulent conservatives—Hannity, Limbaugh, the right-to-lifers, the tax slashers, the anti-immigrationists—who were for so long so successful in demonizing the lib media, will now be Palinized (the more the lib media makes sport of her, the more the true conservatives
seem determined to embrace her).
Sarah Palin, almost as much as Barack Obama, is the new liberal hope and salvation.
