{"id":471,"date":"2011-06-22T23:21:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T23:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/diaryofawimpycatholic\/?p=471"},"modified":"2015-03-13T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:04:46","slug":"corapi-resigns-alaska-governorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/diaryofawimpycatholic\/2011\/06\/corapi-resigns-alaska-governorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Corapi Resigns Alaska Governorship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cI\u2019m not a quitter,\u201d insisted the bearded priest-turned talk-radio host in his famous stentorian basso. \u201cBut people who know me, know that, besides faith and family, nothing is more imporant to me than our beloved Alaska. My particular mission was speaking, writing, and teaching\u2014not so much in the sacraments, but outside of them, in conjunction with them. So what I\u2019m going to be doing in the future is pretty much the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wait, wait, wait. Did Corapi really say that? Or was it that other crowd pleaser with the furry animal totem? The black grizzly, the mama sheep dog \u2014 who can tell anymore, particularly now that Sarah Palin\u2019s apparently quit her controversial bus tour<\/strong><\/a> in order to return to Alaska and, as Alex Pareene hypothesized, \u201cto go eat salmon, or something\u201d? As he writes in Salon:<\/i><\/p>\n

But Scott Conroy at RealClearPolitics wondered what happened to the tour that was supposed to be heading through the Midwest and Southwest at some point in this rapidly ending month. It seems like Sarah Palin just went home to Alaska, to eat salmon or something.
\nAs Palin enjoys her sojourn to the 49th state, she has not reconnected with key early-state figures like Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and she may have jeopardized whatever political momentum she gained from her recent reemergence in the 2012 discussion. Her political action committee\u2019s website still greets visitors with a stale banner, announcing the nationwide bus tour beginning \u201c[t]his Sunday, May 29th.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just give it another month, and she\u2019ll come up with some other scheme to briefly convince everyone that she\u2019s running for president again. She feeds on the attention! (And the PAC donations.) That documentary about how she used to not be so awful before she got famous is going to show in Iowa soon. That\u2019ll definitely mean something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pareene also notes that fans on Palin\u2019s internet site, Conservatives4Palin,<\/strong><\/a> \u201care split between growing anger and stubborn self-delusion:<\/p>\n

PEC111 seems to be grasping that he or she\u2019s been had:
\nTo me the big deal in Scott Conroy\u2019s article is the bus tour. I figure it would have already started by now. With the fishing season getting started and with her trip to the Sudan, it appears to almost have been cancelled. At least if it was going to be in June. Of course she is known for the unpredictable but there is no way this tour is going West Coast, MidWest and South Carolina all this month. I for the first time am having true concerns that she has decided not to run. Don\u2019t blast me too hard.<\/p>\n

That said maybe she wanted the tour to better coincide with the movie release.<\/p>\n

Maybe!<\/p>\n

TheTotalConservative is frustrated with rumors that Palin will endorse Rick Perry and sit 2012 out:<\/p>\n

I hate even seeing these rumors. If she skips 2012 and endorses Perry it will be tragic and a let down to everyone that is rooting for her. Dick Perry is Not Good Enough.<\/p>\n

I agree. No Dick Perry.<\/p>\n

RuthieAbramson is tragic: \u201cBut if she\u2019s not running, she would have said so long ago, right? She certainly wouldn\u2019t let us all hang on and on like this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really, this is no less remarkable than the Arab Spring. In his Vanity Fair<\/i> profile, \u201cSarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury,\u201d<\/strong><\/a> Michael Joseph Gross notes that Palin\u2019s website \u2014 to be abbreviated henceforth as \u201cC4P\u201d \u2014 has traditionally tolerated dissent as much as Qadaffi or anyone in the Assad family. Site founder Rebecca Mansour also served as the chief moderator, or rather, enforcer. \u201cShe used to police C4P message boards for dissenters from the party line,\u201d Gross writes. \u201cAnd, under the name RAM (her initials, shortened from her earlier, more descriptive handle, RAM Hammer), rip them mercilessly\u201c:<\/p>\n

\u201cNow you are banned for life, you sick son of a bitch.\u201d In one comment string, a woman named Sandra wrote, \u201cI wish Sarah would tell us more about what is involved with caring for Trig. I understand there are many professionals involved in his education and training. If we knew more about this there would be more support for organizations that are involved.\u201d Mansour shot back, \u201cSandra, what are you implying?,\u201d and the comment string went dead. The nastiness on C4P exists alongside an idealization of the former governor, as displayed in the closing lines of \u201cWho is Sarah Palin?,\u201d an 8,000-word posting by Mansour: \u201cC4P has your back, Governor. And when you finally ride out from the north with your banner lifted high, we\u2019ll rally.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Have Mansour and her successors fled their posts, gone the way of SAVAK and the Tontons Macoutes? Or are they starting to entertain doubts of their own?<\/p>\n

Corapi\u2019s site<\/strong><\/a> may face its own popular uprising yet. A friend of mine e-mailed me a scouting report. Scrolling through the comments to yesterday\u2019s broadcast, he found the predictable encomiums: \u201c\u201dFather, you are a saint\u2026you will always be \u2018Father\u2019 to me\u2026you\u2019re like Padre Pio\u2026carry the cross of Jesus\u2026you are my savior\u2026we need you\u2026appeal to the pope\u2026don\u2019t give up\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

But in the midst of them all, he saw a comment that, as he put it, \u201chit the nail right on the head.\u201d It was short, and to the point:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are so ____ing crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yesterday, in his Patheos column, Deacon Greg Kandra coins the expression \u201cten-percent solution\u201d to describe Corapi\u2019s decision \u2014 short-sighted, to his mind \u2014 to regard the sacramental aspects of his ministry as by far the less important part. It\u2019s such a nifty phrase I would transfer it to a different context, one that applies equally to Palin. If you\u2019re a demagogue, making a brisk living exploiting the credulity of the masses, sooner or later you\u2019ll be expected to produce more mojo than you ever really had. When that time comes, don\u2019t lose heart \u2014 just duck and roll, and tighten your belt a little, knowing that 10% of your following will stick by you till the mothership arrives.<\/p>\n

Or as Langston Hughes might have put it:<\/p>\n

What happens to a cult let down?
\nDoes it dry up, like a salmon in the sun?
\nOr does it kid itself still more
\nThat she\u2019ll run?
\nDoes it pout and hold its breath
\nOr spaz out and swear to beat
\nThe media to death?<\/p>\n

Maybe it contracts,
\nRefusing to think.<\/p>\n

Or does it just shrink?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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