Seems I was quite right viz Obama's speech - the uber liberals, reeling from the setbacks of last week, have now pounced on it, make wild rut with it in orgiastic unison, ringing out a message, a new narrative [simply the old one in a new suit] that essentially proclaims: see, the Great Obama gets it, he knows how to be civil, to engage in proper, well reasoned political discourse - and he's one of us! He's ours! That was our point last week - not really ya know that Sarah Palin actually killed those people, but rather that the uncivilized [didn't go to Harvard] evil that she represents is killing the country [by making it less willing to accept that everything the editorial board of the NY Times says or believes is absolutely true] and only the great light that is Obama [remember, he is us, if you love him, or more precisely, if you loved that speech, you gotta love us] can save the country from this gathering darkness.
Essentially what they're saying is that republicans, or simply just conservatives, by expressing their opinions, are damaging the social fabric of the nation, and although the murders in Arizona were not directly caused by this conservative decay, they were emblematic of it, a symbol of it if you will, and that was our point. Accordingly, if you want civility to be preserved, if you want the country to be good and just, you must reject republican rhetoric because it represents the only true threat to the country [and just if you will try not to think about the fact that what we're really arguing for here is the institution of a liberal autocracy that outlaws or vilifies any free speech that doesn't sound like it was incubated in the faculty lounge at Harvard - in fact try not to think at all - we're really smart people and can do all that thinking stuff for you. Thanks].
If this new narrative manages to endure - and lets face it the MSM is highly motivated to enable it seeing as the events of last week made them look like absolute partisan dupes, which of course they are, but they now desperately need to rationalize that perception or rather obscure it behind a conveniently nebulous context - if it endures I would say Palin is toast if she really did nurture national ambitions [which I tend to believe she didn't - I think she's probably smart enough to realize it will be virtually impossible to win a national election when so many people have already decided they hate her] - the powers that be within the republican party will now be thinking her refusal to hire professional speech writers, professional advisors may have served well her 'rogue imaging' thing but is now proving a liability to the party as a whole and there's no way they're gonna let her anywhere near a presidential run. Then again, the narrative may not hold - the public didn't buy the first attempt at smearing the republican brand with these murders - but keep in mind, with Obama once again embracing the illusory mantle of the moderate, which served him so well in 2008, he now becomes a much more viable salesman - and that's what that speech was, it was a sales pitch - and it looks like an ever gullible public is ready to buy it up.
