The problem with Palin

I've caught a lot of flak from readers who think Palin is the answer to our prayers. After all, they say, she supported the Alaskan Independence Party. She's a conservative who can take down Obama in 2012.

To which I say, so what? She's George W. Bush in skirts. The last thing the conservative movement needs now is yet another Judas goat who's going to lead us where our handlers want us, and that's supporting more idiotic wars and more big government. Palin's a star-struck newbie who's going to sell us out, just as W sold us out, and his daddy before him.

This piece in The American Conservative pretty much sums up my feelings toward Palin:

Even the more belligerent new nationalism of Goldwater, which in the 1960s largely supplanted the old nationalism of Taft within the mainstream conservative movement, was based on defense of our nation, not on attempting to control the entire planet as a favor to foreign governments or for the sake of reputed ideals. This utopian and resentment-provoking policy is actually a variant of internationalism. Neoconservatism, an ideology neither new nor conservative, is a product of Wilsonian Democrats with a dash of Trotskyite Communism. The neocon founders were with FDR and Truman against Taft in the ’40s and with LBJ against Goldwater in the ’60s. Neoconservatives have always been deeply and unalterably committed to two of the most deadly -isms of all: militarism and imperialism. This is the foreign policy that Sarah Palin has chosen to adopt. As a result, her pro-life ethic excludes humans involved in any war sanctioned by the federal government.

Be sure to read the rest. It's a well-written piece with genuine insight.