Rick Raw: Tea Party Tart–Sarah Palin Having Delusions of Grandeur

By Rick Grant Commentary rickgrant01@comcast.net

There she goes again, Sarah Palin is having delusions of grandeur. In an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Palin said," If I believed that that (running for President) is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family, I would do it."

Yes, the Tea Party Tart is positioning herself as a presidential candidate, using the new Tea Party hoopla as a platform to ride on this tsunami of right wing anger right into the White House.
After her interview with "Fox News," Palin addressed the Tea Party Convention as keynote speaker, which cost attendees $500 a pop.

Palin goes on to say, "I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country. I won’t close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future."

The sad truth is: Palin may actually have a chance at winning the presidency in 2012 by aligning herself with the Tea Party agenda. Having Palin speak at the first Tea Party convention was an effort to legitimize the movement into a political force with Palin as their new age Joan of Arc.

The Tea Party is a grass roots movement that grew out of the discontent with Obama’s agenda of big spending, more taxation, and big government–GOP mantras. However, the Tea Party evolved from the shattered middle class who are jobless and lost their homes in the economic apocalypse--Democratic bastions.

Basically, the Tea Party is an independent group who are disgusted with both parties. Enter Tea Party savior, Sarah Palin to lead the "revolution." Onward Palin soldiers into the hellish wind of Obama’s perfect storm, she raves like an evangelist.

"The movement grew out of common sense conservative principles.... and was a call to action to change the way both parties do business. America is ready for another revolution and you are a part of this," Palin said to a standing ovation.

Palin deftly tapped into the Tea Party’s group consciousness by referencing the upset victory of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. She told the crowd that the Obama administration should stop lecturing and start listening. (another standing ovation)

She flew into the Tea party convention like a hawk diving onto its prey. She rebel-roused the attendees with her ah-shucks, down home charm of the Alaskan hunter who recently stalked her prey and laughs at adversity.

Yes, Little Miss Alaskan Sunshine uses her every-woman persona to get inside her audience’s heads with her witches potion of simple rhetoric, tales of shooting a moose, tending to her brood, and telling the anger addled Tea Party group what they want to hear.

Then she hits them with her best shot. "If Obama continues on the path that he has America on today, he’s not going to win," Amen, preacher lady. She then tells the crowd," now send me your crippled people and I will heal them with my magic wand of home-spun wisdom. Then I’ll turn rocks into fish.

Given that the Tea Party is intrinsically a non-political group trying to be a political force, Palin’s style suits them to a tee. Men want to fuck her–women want to be her.

And so, Palin has risen from obscurity to a strange energy force who is influencing a segment of the far right who want to break away from the two party system. She’s an unpredictable maverick on the loose. Who knows where she’ll pop up next.

The Tea Party is a perfect platform for the mighty Palin-transformer who should never be underestimated. I may loathe her, but I would never count her out as a possible presidential candidate in 2012. Stranger things have happened, like W’s two terms.