Look. Please stop writing these pieces about whether or not Sarah Palin will run for president. And, if you do write them, at least make an honest effort to figure out who it will help and hurt. She hasn’t done any legwork. Her negatives are historic. She’s an imbecile. And she’ll surely quit before she’s technically defeated. I know you have to take a former vice-presidential candidate at least somewhat seriously, but I’d rather hear speculation about Dan Quayle, frankly. He’s a far more serious and qualified person than Palin. She hasn’t made the faintest sign that she’s running, despite what Karl Rove says. And the only threat she poses is to other candidates who are relying on her know-nothing constituency.
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So she’ll be a force in the Republican primaries but will get smoked in the general. I agree.
Didn’t see your comment before posting mine. Great minds, etc.
I.e., all of them. Because you can’t win the nomination at this point without at least some support from that constituency. Sad and terrifying, but manifestly true.
I agree with Mr. Sargent on this one.
“Sarah Palin: I’m still newsworthy! Really, I am!”
Her Iowa State Fair visit and video seemed more about trying to get the media to pay attention to her again, rather than announce anything. “Look I’ll even answer questions. Please fawn all over me again. No one reads my Facebook page anymore! Whaaa!”
LOL. So, so true.
Just as Reagan was the first person to make explicit the fact that Hollywood acting and high-level elected office involve many of the same skills, Palin has bequeathed us the connection between the modern permanent campaign and the beauty pagaent. Sure, she’s gotten wealthy along the way, but her entire trajectory can be explained by an insatiable need to be adored just because of who she is and how she looks, and a relentless drive to destroy anyone who doesn’t adore her. Palin is the high school Popular Girl From Hell, only she’s been stuck in that mode for 30 years.
The only reason the “Will Sarah Run?” question has any interest is to find out whether it’s now possible for a campaign to get traction strictly on celebrity appeal, without any of the traditional leg work or funding sources. (I once thought this would be the route she’d take, but she turns out to apparently be even too lazy for this.) Palin would have been a better test of the viability of this type of campaign a year ago, before her shelf life as a celebrity started to expire, but it’s still an interesting question in our celebrity-obsessed, new media-driven culture. The interest certainly isn’t because of anything Palin actually says or does, or because she has any shot at all of even winning the nomination.
It’s pretty obvious that she’s got the knives out for Michele Bachmann, too. “Look at me, I’m prettier than she is! No, really, look at me!”
She really does seem to think this is all a beauty pageant, doesn’t she?
That’s what her whole life has been so far, innit?
perhaps palin now fancies herself a kingmaker in the ratpublican nomination process.
lack of an inflated ego has never been one of her faults as a grifter extraordinaire.
Rove is trying to force her hand. By not declaring, one way or the other, she’s harming the Republican Party.
. . . tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock . . .
And if she doesn’t run now she has burned her supporters and flushed a lot of money down the drain. She’s barely set foot in her 6,000 sq ft, state-of-the-art, Fox News-provided, television studio.
. . . wooooooooosh . . .
She is at this point already one step above the answer to a pub-trivia question.
In ten years people won’t be able to recall if she’s the VP candidate or that skater chick who tried to kneecap her competition.
Separated at birth.
Somewhere, Micheal Palin is crying.
writing these pieces about who will or will not get the Republican nomination. It matters not. Obama will win.
And he’ll let the Republicans continue to set the agenda.
And America will continue going down the toilet.