THE GHOST OF SPIRO AGNEW

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THE GHOST OF SPIRO AGNEW

Among the political figures to whom Sarah Palin has been compared, Spiro T. Agnew is conspicuously absent. This is unsurprising from the GOP’s perspective, as he resigned in disgrace because of the basest forms of corruption during his pre-VP political career (it’s a common misconception that he went down with Watergate, but he was a felon without Nixon’s help). On the other hand, his absence from the narrative is suprising given that Palin’s nomination is a spitting image of Agnew’s out-of-nowhere appearance on the national scene four decades ago. The two politicians are eerily similar and the scenario surrounding their nomination is downright identical: choose a neophyte who isn’t qualified to run a kindergarten class and then turn the election into a pitched moral battle pitting Good Reg’lar Folk against that condescending liberal media.

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