This is my latest piece for The Guardian:
Sarah Palin speaks during the Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Photograph: Josh Anderson/Reuters
Sarah Palin may not know that Africa is a continent, but if there is knowledge that she is not lacking, it’s a canny ability to spot, and seize, any opportunity that will propel her into the spotlight.
Palin’s delivery of the keynote speech at this weekend’s Tea Party convention in Tennessee was a reminder that it was not, and is not likely to ever be, substance nor innovative ideas that characterise her mainstream political career. What gets Palin ahead is her way of maximising and exploiting what are, essentially, gaps in the market for her own gain.
One gap that was open, and seemingly filled by Palin on Saturday night, was leadership of the fledgling Tea Party movement. Both the movement and Palin have been branded, and ridiculed by commentators and politicians, as hollow and devoid of any substance; both are seeking to assert themselves as legitimate political forces.
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Lola, Ever so often, America threatens to or actually elects a right wing nutjob as President. Remember old George Wallace- who can forget- or his turn of the century think alike Woodrow Wilson, the Commander-in-Chief who invited the Klan to the White House? Palin is in that squalid company. Somebody must tell her and America that the world is not quite ready for another White President..but of course, true to type, America won’t listen to the world.
the democratic party is the real klan in america it was the republicans that stood for freedom from slavery they started the civil rights movement and ended child labor in this country and are pro life for the unborn. The democrats are killing the unborn both black and white which they say have no rights.The confederacy merged into the democratic party who stood for slavery.