at same time, Palin quit midway through her term as Alaska governor, then went on to a life of $100,000 speaking fees, reality TV shows and incendiary political speech.
The week’s dueling tours of Gates and Palin show the best and worst in American public life. Both call themselves Republicans, but he comes from the best tradition of service while she sdis a study in selfishness. He’s self-effacing; she’s self-aggrandizing. He harm
onized American foreign policy; she put bull’s-eyes on Democratic congressional districts and then howled about “blood libel.”
It says something about the infirmity of our politics that Gates can’t wait to go home while Palin is again being taken seriously as a prospective presidential candidate.
vNew Hampshire (where she crowded out Mitt Romney’s official kickoff by having a nearby clambake) to Iowa, to South Carolina. In her interview with Fox, Palin claimed that she didn’t participate in a flattering new movie about her but later confessed t
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