Republicans Born Again

Bible Belt evangelicals unhappy with McCain take simplistic comfort in Palin
as VP candidate

By Eric Margolis

09/09/08 "Toronto Sun" -- - PARIS - Trying to explain American politics to
my French friends and Paris media is not easy. They are still struggling to
understand how Barack Obama popped out of nowhere to run for the world's
most powerful office.

Now the French are even more stunned and confused by Sen. John McCain's
surprise vice-presidential choice of Gov. Sarah Palin of Wasilla, Alaska, a
hamlet just a snowball's throw from the North Pole.

Frenchmen, being French, think she has nice legs. But no one here can
understand why Republicans picked a lady whose primary experience was being
mayor of a one-husky town and making moose stew.

"Mon dieu," one Parisian told me. "Those crazy Republicans must have the
wish of death." No, no I explained. The party is being born again.

Palin's emergence simply confirms the final dumbing down and ruralization of
the Republican Party, and its metamorphosis into a right wing
politico-religious movement.