By Doug Draper
How does the ring of ‘President Sarah Palin’ sound to you?
Yes I know. Some of you might actually like the sound of that. I mean to the extent to which there is apparently one hell of a lot of people across our binational region tuning in to Rush Limbaugh – his assaults on virtually anything Barack Obama has to say or do are blasting across the airwaves, courtesy of WBEN Radio in Buffalo, almost every day – who wish Palin was president now.
This hearse carrying the remains of Senator Ted Kennedy in Cape Cod, Massachusetts last August may have spelled the end of Kennedy-style progressive liberalism in North America. Photo by Doug Draper
I was mainly putting that opening question to all of you out who may think that the idea of Sarah Palin standing on the steps of the U.S. Capital building in January of 2012 – just as Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy did in times gone by – with a hand on a Bible, taking the oath of office for the presidency of the United States is impossible.
Impossible? If you had told me, even two months ago, that a virtually unknown Republican candidate by the name of Scott Brown, who is opposed to publicly funded health care, regulating Wall Street and the banks, etc., etc., would win a senate seat in one of the most liberal of U.S. states, Massachusetts, held by John Kennedy and his younger brother, the recently deceased Senator Ted Kennedy, for more than 50 years, I might have said that was impossible.
But it happened this Jan 19 – just one day before the first anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration – and it may signal the beginning of the end, not only for Obama, but for progressive, liberal politics in the U.S. and anywhere else on this continent, including Canada. It may also spell the beginning, whether we like it or not, of the Palin era. Continue reading
