Mark Noonan on The Palin Effect

To paraphrase George C. Scott's Patton, "Alinsky, you magnificent bastard. Sarah Palin read your book." And she's using it as a weapon against your dark army, as Mark Noonan observes in "The Palin Effect":

“Death Panels” did it - and I know our liberals still yank their hair in frustration…there was no such thing, they assert.

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But... so were there “death panels” in the health care reform proposals, disguised as various commissions and committees which would [oversee] what coverage plans were to provide. And Sarah Palin’s phrasing was crucial to turning the debate firmly against Obama and his Democrats.

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We’ll have to see if Palin can develop Reaganesque ability to re-shape public perceptions. But, be that as it may, Palin has shown why she rose so far and so fast - and still has a shot at the White House in 2012: she’s very, very smart.

And she’s made the left jump to her tune - that, in and of itself, will provide satisfaction when set against the slanders the left has launched against her.

Recommended reading.

- JP