If the strict-morals conservatives heading up America’s cultural and religious war needed a brash and idyllic fresh face, a mythic idol, a feminine maiden with directed purpose, anointed to lead them into pitched battle, they have found her in Saint Sarah.
She’s the lass the powerful values prophet Dobson discovered in a far away place.
Sarah’s that youthful beauty who can shoulder an assault rifle, marry a champion born of native peoples, bear beautiful children, gut and skin a hulking moose, and fight for all the things righteous moralists find holy. They rejoice and exalt.
They’ve found in Saint Sarah of Wasilla, the far right’s equivalent of Joan of Arc.
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Saint Sarah has a striven nature, a pure vision, an Pentecostal Prophetess with a deep sense of "righteous civic morals" who searches out political abuse and fraud with a gospel laser--her sword of the Lord and Gideon. She is fearless and gifted with the power of populism (supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite).
Watch out corrupt and sold-out Washington! Run for your secret Swiss accounts you Corporatists and Wall Street thieves.
The fury and pent up anger of the ordinary people, drawn to rally behind Saint Sarah, has the power to upset the good ol’ boys, the "money men’s tables" and the monied elites all entrenched about and in the civically sacred "house of the people"--the Capitol of the "city set on a hill."
God made America the New Israel—the Chosen of the nations, a "light unto to all nations." God intended America to carry out a holy purpose, to be a shining example, and Saint Sarah has come forth--out of the mighty mountain mists of the Far North--to cleanse Washington and Wall Street from having become "dens of thieves."
Cry and howl for mercy Halliburton, Bank of America, K Street sorcerers, you wicked Neo-Con sons of unjust war, your days are numbered!
Sarah Palin may become something so fierce, so straight to the heart of things, so immensely popular and supported as to turn the tables on "business as usual" and give the little people hope for sweeping change, however far fetched.
As a morals-first crusader has been crying on talk radio, "Power to the People!"
Just as Abraham Lincoln was to have said of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Civil War era Uncle Tom’s Cabin—a stirring revolutionary novel of social conscience, "So you are the little lady who started this war." So too, Sarah may have the mythic powers to lead a massive movement to uproot the powerbrokers and the corrupt.
Following the law of unintended consequences, Saint Sarah of Wasilla may have just awakened and stirred the sleeping giant crying out, "It’s our country, our jobs, our futures, and we want them back!"
This scenario is not at all what the Republican kingmakers and Dobson had in mind when they chose Sarah Palin to run as John McCain’s Vice Presidential candidate, but it may be ironically what results from their bold choice may be a searing "blowback" on Newt Gingrich's partisan purgatory and intentional gridlock.
Time's Joe Klien offers up a clue to Sarah's mythic potential:
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We don't really know Palin as a politician yet, whether she is wise or foolhardy, substantive or empty. Our fascination with her — and is a nonpartisan phenomenon—is driven by something more primal. The Palin surge illuminates the mythic power of the Republican Party's message since the advent of Ronald Reagan.
Look out Sister Sarah, recall what happend to Joan of Arc in her sizzling end!