Is Sarah Palin becoming Al Sharpton?

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Two writers from Politico Jonathan Martin and John F. Harris have written a very interesting article that may surprise both Al Sharpton and Sarah Palin. In it they compare Palin's playing of the victim and sexism cards to Sharpton's use of the victim ( race ) card. Read more below. George Cook AAreports.com. Author of the Kindle book Let's Talk Honestly: One Black Man's Thoughts $1.50

Sarah Palin has played the sexism card, accusing critics of chauvinism against a strong woman.

She has played the class card, dismissing the Bush family as “blue bloods” and complaining that she is the target of snobbery by people who dislike her simply because she is “not so hoity-toity.”

Most famously, she has played the victim card — never more vividly than when she invoked the loaded phrase “blood libel” against liberals and media commentators in the wake of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting.

Palin’s flamboyant rhetoric always has thrilled supporters, but lately it is coming at a new cost: a backlash, not from liberals but from some of the country’s most influential conservative commentators and intellectuals.

Read more 'She's becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition