Palin Is No Puppet

Just as Dick Cheney didn’t control George W. Bush, the neocons don’t control Sarah Palin.

Of the many unflattering caricatures of Sarah Palin that litter the political landscape, the notion that she is a dummy or a puppet — a mere figure for manipulation by a superior brain — is probably the most prevalent. She has even been given a mock “endorsement,” bestowed in a YouTube video by the so-called Ventriloquist Dummies of America Association, for her supposed likeness to an inert object of play.

So let’s just say this at the top: Palin is not anyone’s puppet. It is not true for her, just as it was not true for George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and a long list of politicians who have been accused of having their strings pulled by one puppet master or another.

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