
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Sarah Palin speaks at the Tea Party Dinner, the high point of controversy-plagued Tea Bag Nation convention.
The suspense is delightful, for surely the news of the First Dude’s emails have reached the Tea Party citizenry. How will they react to Palin? With gushing love? With suspicion that perhaps the precious Sarah is not all she’s set herself up to be? Or will they blindly embrace her for want of a better idol?
What themes will she touch on? And just as importantly, what rhetorical devices will she employ? The wink? The folksy faux poet? The brave frontier woman?
Join us in deconstructing Palin as we liveblog her speech–both MSNBC and CSPAN are carrying it.