By Bernie
Quigley
For The Hill
on 8/1/12
Establishment
Republicans rally today to debunk Sarah Palin much as Letterman, Couric, Tina
Fey and the vast info/entertainment culture did at the beginning. It is a
measure to her success and the fear Grizzly Mama strikes in the heart of the
timid. The Ted Cruz victory in the Texas Senate race brings substantive
political change and Sarah Palin is behind the paradigm shift. It is, as the
Washington Post called it, “a victory for tea party.” Today, “the establishment”
pushes further away from the main pulse of America and Sarah Palin holds the
pulse.
The paradigm
shift can best be seen in Texas Governor Rick Perry’s last primary race for
Governor. The entire Eastern Conservative Establishment including George H.W.
Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Karen Hughes –as
proxy for W – lined up behind Kay Bailey Hutchison who had challenged
Perry for the Governorship. Perry had in his corner Sarah Palin. Perry was then
to be seen as the front man on the rising Tea Party. Yesterday, Governor Perry
brought his support to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. Palin back Cruz. So Perry, in
Texas has been marginalized as a Tea Party figure and wrapped in with “the
establishment,” a phrase now used in mainstream publications like the Post.
The Cruz victory
brings Tea Party to a higher level of maturity and engagement. And it pushes
“the establishment” in Texas and the heartland closer to the margins.
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