Belated hat tip to the Wall Street Journal’s Thomas Frank, who gets the Palin drone just right in his column headlined “Poor, Persecuted Sarah Palin.”

Here’s the nut graf:

Indeed, if political figures stand for ideas, victimization is what Ms. Palin is all about. It is her brand, her myth. Ronald Reagan stood tall. John McCain was about service. Barack Obama has hope. Sarah Palin is a collector of grievances. She runs for high office by griping.

Her latest gripe? An op-ed in the Washington Post headlined “The ‘Cap and Tax’ Dead End.” In it, Palin says,

I am deeply concerned about President Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.

A predictable complaint from the “Drill, baby, drill” babe. And an entirely understandable beef from the “Shill, baby, shill” babe that Palin has become now that she has a shot at capitalizing on what the Boston Phoenix calls “$arah, Inc.”

Seems to me, Palin has no gripe at all.