Scariest Thing I Have Read This Week: Even McCain Should Be Terrified Of His VP Pick, kpete********************
Neoconservatives plan Project Sarah Palin to shape future American foreign policy
Neoconservatives whose influence had been waning in Washington have hitched their colours to rising star Sarah Palin in a bid to shape US foreign policy for another decade. By Tim Shipman in Wasilla, Alaska
Last Updated: 12:30PM BST 13 Sep 2008
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A former Republican White House official, who now works at the American Enterprise Institute, a bastion of Washington neoconservatism, admitted:
“She’s bright and she’s a blank page. She’s going places and it’s worth going there with her.”
Asked if he sees her as a “project”, the former official said: “Your word, not mine, but I wouldn’t disagree with the sentiment.”..................................
In the two weeks since she was named as Mr McCain’s running mate that is just what has happened.
While Mr McCain was publicly distancing himself from the policies and personalities of the Bush administration, Mrs Palin was sequestered with a series of former aides to George W. Bush................
“In choosing Palin,
McCain may also have changed the course of history,” he said.
“Should this ticket win, Palin will eclipse every other Republican as heir apparent to the presidency and will have her own power base, wholly independent of President McCain.”much more at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/2827217/Neoconservatives-plan-Project-Sarah-Palin-to-shape-future-American-foreign-policy.html