Seeing as this video was put out by an outfit calling itself "New Left Media", it is natural to harbor suspicions about the objectivity of what one is seeing: for all one knows, these guys could have thrown out all of the material showing Palin backers in a more favorable light, leaving only the clips portraying "Sarah Barracuda" fans as ignorant, paranoid, xenophobic dopes parroting ridiculous right-wing propaganda.
Still, given what we know of Sarah Palin's intellectual abilities (marginal) and ideological coherence (non-existent), there is every reason to believe that this video isn't far off the mark. If anything, the video seems to suggest that Sarah Palin has a lot more female support than she actually does, as if her primary support consisted of women engaging in the shallowest form of identity politics; most of the former governor's support actually comes from conservative males, and when one takes this odd gender skew into consideration, I think its pretty clear that neither policy considerations nor a perception of fitness for office have much to do with Palin's appeal. Let's just say Palin wouldn't have any "base" to speak of were there not so many sexually frustrated men out there ...
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