Naomi Wolf: The Battle Plan II: Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State

I first thought Wolf was sensationalizing the issue of a fascist America to sell books, but now I'm not so sure. Are we stupid enough to elect what James Howard Kunstler calls a "Cornpone Nazis" into power?[excerpt] ... I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites ("the heart of America is on display") and realized Bush's speechwriters were writing her -- not McCain's -- speeches. I heard her tell George Bush's lies -- not McCain's -- to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners -- this is Rove-Cheney's enthusiastic S and M, not McCain's, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit --but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain. ... Read more Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State