Some helpful factual testing of Ross's wishful thinking that Sarah Palin is the Evita for the right, ushering in a new era of criminalized abortion, closeted gays, federally subsidized churches, and lots of subsidies for "real Americans". Mark Blumenthal analyzes her Christianist base here; Charles Franklin shows why everyone else is slack-jawed.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/07/douthats-nixonian-delusions/199072/
