Perhaps all the talk of the “Year of the Conservative Woman,” sparked by the crop of fairly conservative Republican women running for office, has slightly unhinged some feminists on the left. Or maybe it’s a flare-up of the Palin Derangement Syndrome caused by Sarah Palin’s galling insistence on calling herself a feminist
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New at Reason: Cathy Young on Sarah Palin, Feminism, and Conservatism
The tea party movement started as a welcome protest against the alarming growth of federal spending and federal control. But as Steve Chapman writes, judging from the applause for Sarah Palin at its convention, the movement’s suspicion of government power is exceeded only by its worship of government power.
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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on How Sarah Palin Exposed the Tea Partiers’ True Colors
C-SPAN has posted the entirety of Sarah Palin’s speech at this weekend’s Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Watch by clicking above. Discuss by commenting below.
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Stopping By Sarah Palin’s Speech on a Snowy Weekend…
David Sessions looks at the latest poll from Rasmussen and finds more evidence that conservative activists are not pleased with the Republican party: More Americans would vote for a “Tea Party” candidate than a Republican, according to aRasmussen poll released Monday that quizzed voters on a hypothetical three-way ballot. Respondents were asked to assume that the “Tea Party” was an organized new party, despite the fact that it is highly unlikely the grassroots conservative movement that has gained momentum this year will become a third party. A majority of Americans said they would vote Democratic (36 percent), while the number who said they would vote “Tea Party” (23 percent) slightly edged out Republican voters (18 percent).
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More Americans Willing to Vote For Nonexistent Third Party Than GOP
As the release of Going Rogue sets off another Palinpalooza in the press, Managing Editor Jesse Walker complains that the media are spending so much time reviewing the opinions of Sarah Palin, and so little time exploring the opinions of the varied band of fans who have rallied around her.
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New at Reason: Jesse Walker on the Sarah Palin Fan Culture
To his (unintentional) credit, Matthew Continetti did give us fair warning two-thirds of the way through his recent Weekly Standard cover valentine/audition letter to Sarah Palin: A good sign of condescension is when someone tells you that “things are more complicated” than you think.
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Sarah Palin, and The Weekly Standard’s Decadal Audition for Ideological Ventriloquist in Chief
These days, writes David Harsanyi, where you fall on the crucial issue of Sarah Palin tells the rest of us all we need to know about your character. You’re either A) a scum-sucking, terror-loving elitist or B) a radical, tea bag-loving simpleton. Yet believe it or not, Harsanyi notes, one can admire Palin’s charisma and roots, appreciate her dissent on the policy experiments brainy folks in Washington are cooking up, and, at the same time, believe she has no business running for president in 2012
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New at Reason: David Harsanyi on Sarah Palin
Writing in The Washington Post , Reason ’s Nick Gillespie reviews two new books about everybody’s favorite/most-hated pol, Sarah Palin.
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Reason Writers Around Town: Nick Gillespie on Sarah Palin in The Washington Post
After President Obama’s declaration last week that: I have always been a strong believer in the power of the free market. …I’m taking everything I hear from politicians on this topic with a Bloomberg-sized helping of salt .
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Mama Grizzly Ferociously Defends Free Markets
It’s been more than a week since Sarah Palin announced that she was resigning from the governorship of Alaska, and we still don’t really know why. Despite intimations that a major scandal might be on the horizon, none has emerged.
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Sarah Palin: Ambition, Incoherence, and Paranoia
