"How's that hopey-changey stuff workin' out for ya?" Sarah Palin asked the anti-élitist Tea Party élites those who could pay $549 for a ticket gathered in suffocating self-righteousness at the Opryland Hotel on the first weekend of February. It was classic Palin, a brilliant line, brilliantly delivered: she does folksy far better than George W. Bush or any of the other Republican focus-group populists ever did. It was the signature line of her speech, which rocked the joint and then, slowly, began to rock the national political community. The speech was inspired drivel, a series of distortions and...
It's Her Party: The Brilliance of Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin, who gave the keynote address to the Tea Party convention, is clever, deceptive and infuriating which makes her the Republicans' most potent force
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