The GOP is getting a taste of how Democrats felt in the aftermath of the 2016 and 2014 elections and they don’t like it. While there’s an effort to be defiant (Miller and Jordan getting elevated for example) most are experiencing a moment like happened in the movie Full Metal Jacket. Specifically what the Captain at Stars & Stripes in Da Nang told his staff after detailing the situation the morning after the Tet Offensive started: “It’s a huge sh!t sandwich and we’re all gonna have to take a bite.” They enjoyed the hell out of watching Democrats have to do so, but now it’s their turn. Luckily for them, Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she has just the prescription to cure their discomfort. Read her book!
I kid you not. It’s one helluva way to hawk a book not even most conservatives would want to buy, much less actually read. However Sanders sees an opportunity to swing for the fences with her very own brand of snake oil to wash down the nasty taste of the aforementioned sandwich! Her target audience after all includes countless people who chose medicinal horse paste instead of taking medications that would actually work during Covid. Hell, some of them actually took to heart Trump’s suggestion to drink or even inject freaking bleach, or try to shove an ultraviolet light (how many had to look up ‘What is an ultraviolet light?”) down their throat or up the wazoo. Crazy as it sounds Sanders’ book selling tactic just might work.!
In any case, thanks to The Daily Beast we can learn (more than we want to know) about why Sanders thinks she has the cure for what ails the GOP:
Sanders, 44, announced Unapologetic: Clarity and Conviction in a World Gone Crazy in March, before the blue tsunami. She’s now promoting it as a Republican respite, with a faith-centered account of her family life, cancer diagnosis, and political career.
She’s made several media appearances to discuss it ahead of its November 10 release—one week after sweeping Republican losses.
Sanders made the usual rounds someone makes to promote her book. Places like USA Today, The View and of course Fox. She was of course asked about the results of the midterms, the Blue Wave/Tsunami. (I like to think of it more as voters giving the GOP a blue enema) I have to give Sanders credit for her grifting instincts as she combined selling her book with it being just the thing her fellow GOPers need in this moment of butt-hurt their Party hasn’t experienced since post Watergate. Fox’s Dana Perion, herself a former Press Secretary (for Baby Bush) asked whether someone got themselves a copy of ‘Unapologetic’ they’d feel better. Sanders of course replied “I think so.” I wonder if that exchange was scripted – with Perino getting a slice of the action on book sale revenue if conservatives actually buy that book!
Here’s the part of the linked article that made me laugh:
The book, which Sanders announced in March, is mostly about her Christian faith and how it’s gotten her this far in politics.
“I’m unapologetic in my faith, and that is what drives me, [and] what gives me purpose,” Sanders said about her book’s overarching theme. “Great policy is not worth the paper that it’s written on if there’s not real purpose behind it.”
She explained that “everything” she does, and why she “ran for governor in the first place,” was due to her faith and drive to “lead with that level of conviction.”
There’s more than one howler in that, the first part in particular. Few people (and I mean few) would know who Sarah Sanders is had her father not been able parlay being a preacher into the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion and a career in politics. Had Mike Huckabee remained just a preacher his daughter would be some housewife (assuming her marriage beat the odds in the south and she was still married) struggling along like most of her constituents. EVERYTHING she’s gotten, from being Trump’s Press Secretary to her current job is because of her her dad was and is.
Arkansas remained safely red by the way but Republicans in that state should look out. Over in Mississippi Democrat Scott Colom will flip the Senate seat held by Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith. Democrats didn’t win in nearby Louisiana but got too close for comfort in some races. Same in Florida. And we all know Georgia is now a blue state. Sanders herself won her first term by 28 points, but re-election by only half that and Democrats pretty much didn’t even bother putting up a fight.
But the point is Sanders doesn’t simply have her father’s name in her hyphenated last name (someone should ask why a ‘devout Christian woman’ wouldn’t simply use only her husband’s name!) but daddy was a true somebody in her state. Some nepo babies in many fields actually have talent of some sort, but many more wouldn’t be jack if not for a famous parent or two. Sarah ‘Huckserbee’ Sanders falls in the latter category. But she apparently, to quote iconic conservative columnist George Will’s assessment of Baby Bush (“W”) Sanders was born on third base and thinks she hit a triple.
As for the rest of her assessment in the blocked portion above, Christian values have nothing to do with her career or her book. She’s a grifter which given the time she spent lying for Trump shouldn’t surprise anyone. She’s the female version of those revival preachers who go from town to town, taking a hefty portion of the donations in the plate promising they will be used for Christian purposes but instead go into the preacher’s bank account. Sanders book is just another way of milking daddy’s name and political career to enrich herself.
Still, given the extent of the beatdown Republicans got there might be a lot of them desperate for something, anything including what many know deep down inside will be drivel to numb their pain. The only question I have is if the book takes off with conservatives how quickly Trump will demand a cut of the action and how big a cut he’ll want. HE will claim HE is the one responsible for all she’s ‘accomplished’ and her P.O.S. dad won’t dare say otherwise!
*** On a personal note, last week’s Blue Wave restored a lot of my faith in my country and some belief serving was worth it after all. So Happy Birthday to any of my brother and sister Marines who might have read this. Semper Fidelis!***
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