Fresh off her boffo book tour and big-bucks contract for Fox News commentary, Sarah Palin is hotter than the New Orleans Saints.
Her latest political meme:
“How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for you?”
Better question: How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for her?
Pretty well, if this Monday New York Times piece headlined “Palin in 2012? She Says Run Is Possible” is any indication.
Lede:
Sarah Palin said in an interview broadcast Sunday that she would consider a run for the White House in 2012 “if I believe that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family.”
In that interview on “Fox News Sunday,” the Times reported:
[Anchor Chris] Wallace took note of a poll showing Ms. Palin leading other potential Republican candidates with 16 percent of the respondents and asked if she was more knowledgeable on domestic and foreign matters now than during her run in 2008 as the Republican vice-presidential candidate.
“I would hope so,” she replied.
So there’s that hopey thing in Sarah herself!
And how about this, at last weekend’s National Tea Party Convention in Nashville:
“America is ready for another revolution!” [Palin] told the crowd, prompting the first of several standing ovations.
Okay! There’s that changey thing!
Some years ago the Times ran a piece about Barack Obama consigliere David Axelrod headlined “Obama’s Narrator.” In it, Axelrod added this to the Book of Obama Zen Nonsense (see We Are the Change We’ve Been Waiting For):
[In] a sense Barack is the personification of his own message for this country . . . He is his own vision.
Similarly, in a sense Sarah Palin is the personification of her own message for this country.
She is her own vision.
Welcome to the rabbit hole.
Campaign Outsider 
I suspect that the liberal left is more enchanted with Palin’s demagoguery that the center and the right are.
If the press would stop fawning over her every breath, she would soon just drift away.
It is interesting that the liberal left is so frightened of her.
Perhaps Curmudgeon is onto something, if you replace “frightened of” with “laughing at”. I’m *praying* that the Republicans nominate her in 2012. Please, please, please!
Well, *I’m* frightened of her – but not because I think she can win.
I just find her, and the media support she’s getting, frightening.
This is what bugs me about presidential elections and candidacies. We need to get beyond the character-centered qualities that drive people to make decisions about who they want to see elected as president. That’s the only way I can explain why Sarah Palin is in the position she is in today. How can anyone with no foreign policy experience, who never had an opinion on the Iraq war until three months before the November election, who never left the country out of cultural curiosity, who doesn’t read any periodicals, cannot cite a single major SCOTUS in American history, and actually fell for the prank that Nicholas Sarkozy called Palin on her cellphone is beyond me.
On the other hand, many Democrats have fallen for Obama’s persona too. His claim to fame came from a character-centric image as well. Granted he has more qualifications than Palin, but how many people do you know out there voted him because he’s someone we could drink a beer with, or because he was a great speaker, or because he could dance well on Ellen Degeneres? Or, how many people do you know who wouldn’t vote for Hillary because she’s a word I can’t repeat on Campaign Outsider?
There are candidates with personalities that are as exciting as Eeyore that are more suited to be president, yet many voters can’t get beyond the persona aspect of it. It’s all about appearance now. Hopefully, someday, we can all get beyond the artifice and start voting for people for x,y, and z, not how they look, especially in an army tank 🙂
“We should all come to her defense and declare Sarah Palin is a retard” Video
Just for the record: I never said that.