Palinizing Alex

It's taken a while, but Race 4 2012's Alex Knepper is beginning to come around:

It’s awfully hard for me to keep attacking a politician who condemns protectionism, quests for utopia, and China’s human rights record (a third rail amongst some in the foreign policy establishment); advocates a troop increase in Afghanistan, and professes that Americans want individual freedom rather than contrived solutions that run contrary to the nature of human reality. Shout-outs to the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan don’t hurt, either.

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Free trade, tax cuts, American energy, stronger ties with India, and a foreign policy based upon sound morals and American exceptionalism. If that’s what she’s aiming at, then sign me up.

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I think that she can successfully revive her image. Who would have believed, in 2007, that by Summer 2008 Hillary Clinton would no longer be a polarizing figure and would morph into a working-class icon? Two knockout interviews, a blowout book tour for a best-selling manifesto, and more op-eds and Facebook notes that rally the classical liberal sentiment in Americans, and I’ll be ready to raise my hand for Sarah. And I suspect many other skeptics will be, too. If she keeps things up, she’ll have successfully swayed one of her harshest critics.

Resistance is futile.

Update: Another Knepper post on Palin at Race 4 2008:

"Now, I’m not turning into John Ziegler or Kristofer Lorelli, here, but my opinion of Sarah Palin is now officially positive."

- JP