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Not Mary, Joan

By The Daily Dish
Nov 3 2009, 4:25 AM ET

A reader writes:

You wrote this afternoon, “[Palin's] being turned into a kind of Marian figure, a blessed icon whose mere touch bestows some kind of aura on a candidate or race.” Not a Marian figure, I suggest.

The Wasilla warrior is more like a Maid of Orl ns sort of figure. Sarah Palin has become a latter-day Joan of Arc to the populist or “Jacksonian” elements of rural, red-state America.



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