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I'm not very happy about the Palin business, and I'll use folksy metaphors to explain why not. She was much more dangerous as a vice presidential candidate. Palin's like a dog whistle or something, her 'folksiness' works only on the biologically predisposed - I suspect she'd have been a wonderful lightning rod, keeping the nomination away from Huckabee. Free extra points for Obama in the general election, now gone up in smoke. Now Huckabee, who I genuinely fear, is going to get most of her chips. Huckabee has a charisma that works on me - not to any effect on my actions or opinions, but even when he's preaching the most hideous, potentially murdersome wrongness I'm horrified to find I rather like him, whereas Palin I could never stand. What he has will work on underinformed independents (if that isn't redundant) - especially if he keeps watching Bob Roberts for tips. He is therefore the devil, and, the future being who knows what, conceivably more dangerous than Bush. Big war daddy McCain blocked him last time, lil' darlin' Palin looked set to in '12. Nobody now.

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I think all of us have those moments, but those of us with some passing acquaintance with rationality will move on and accept that Things Need To Be Done. Not in any kind of good time or anything, but we will - the present day ignorers will creak into motion, reluctantly voting some of their own money away. The other people are the dangerous ones, the ones who will refuse that guilt-unto-action because they still have refuge to that alternative view of reality when it's convenient. The laziness of apocalypticism - that's what I smell in the Huckabillies.