Palin’s Speech a ‘Masterful Exercise in Paranoid Politics’ from a ‘Merchant of Hate’

Brent Baker | February 6, 2010
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Democratic operative Bob Shrum, just after Sarah Palin finished her address to the Tea Party convention, during the live MSNBC coverage Saturday night: "What we heard tonight was more a masterful exercise – masterful – in paranoid politics. I mean, she came across to me as a merchant of hate with an oh gosh smile."