Post-Factual Politics
The Fortnightly Rant for June 17, 2011, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 19, posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2011. Sarah Palin and her amazing Technicolor™ dream bus pulled into Portsmouth recently. The maybe/maybe not Presidential candidate and her entourage checked into an enormous new corporate crackerbox on Maplewood Avenue, then whooshed off in a big black SUV to attend a private clambake at a secure, undisclosed location. In a one-in-a-million coincidence, Mitt Romney was just ten miles away in Stratham, also attending a clambake and announcing his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination. Palin, the former half-term Governor of Alaska, had just …