A certain segment of the American people love Governor Palin because she’s attractive and represents the final triumph of ignorance in political discourse. She speaks almost entirely in bumper sticker sized soundbites, which is fine with them because they have no desire to even think in anything more complicated than slogans.
She’s often compared to Reagan, which is profoundly unfair to the late president. While Ronald Reagan mastered the soundbite, if you asked him to explain why he believed what he did, he could. For most of his career, Reagan wrote his own speeches and syndicated a political column in the years between his being governor and president. Sarah Palin wrote a powderpuff of a book who’s main hypothesis was that nothing is ever her fault.
I think we saw, for all intents and purposes, the beginning of the end of Sarah Palin yesterday afternoon with her videotaped response to this past weekend’s shooting in Tucson..
Sadly though-the bitter “dead enders” who created her in the first place, will not let her just go quietly into that great good night.