UK's Daily Mail: Palin power surges across America

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Here are some excerpts from a view from across the Big Pond by Mary Ellen Synon in London's Daily Mail:

Sarah Palin has turned into the king-maker of the mid-term elections.

The party primaries have started, and the power that Mrs Palin now has with the anti-government Tea Party movement has started knocking establishment Republicans right off the party ticket.

Establishment Republicans: those are the kind of Republican politicians who think their job is to be ‘bi-partisan.’ On Capitol Hill this is called ‘being willing to reach across the aisle.’ Problem is, among the new conservative Tea Party surge this is called ‘being willing to betray conservative principles.’

And in the midst of what is being called the Great Recession, as unemployment stays high, house prices get ready to plunge again, and the deficit moves into unimaginable trillions, this Tea Party surge is angry.

Some of the Tea Party people might have believed Barack Obama would deliver change for the good in America. They don’t believe it anymore.

As Sarah Palin mocked in her speech to the Tea Party Convention in February, ‘How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out for ya?’ Short answer: it’s not.

It's a good article which can be perused in its entirety here.

h/t: roy y

- JP