[Deckard]

Originally Posted by Troy McClure

Gov. Palin likes to keep it real...real dumb.

Andrew Sullivan has been rightly tough on Palin. I only begun reading his website since about 3 months ago. I truly had no idea he was fairly conservative.

Yes, the sensible end of it! If more conservatism resembled the Sullivan template, the brand would be much less toxic.

Particularly liked this:

It was a final product of the now-exhausted strategy of fomenting fundamentalist resentment to elect politicians dedicated to the defense of Israel and the extension of American military hegemony in every corner of the globe. Palin was the reductio ad absurdum of this mindset: a mannequin candidate, easily controlled ideologically, deployed to fool and corral the resentful and the frightened, removed from serious scrutiny and sold on propaganda networks like a food product.

Not sure I agree with this though:

That the press felt required to maintain a facade of normalcy for two months - and not to declare the whole thing a farce from start to finish - is a sign of their total loss of nerve.

I'd swap press for electorate, or commentators - but what else could the press have done? As it was, there were complaints that they went too far. Going further would have turned her into a martyr/victim and made them look like disruptors of the democratic process, making her even more appealing to some.

But yes, "This deluded and delusional woman still doesn't understand what happened to her; still has no self-awareness; and has never been forced to accept her obvious limitations." - unfortunately that's absolutely the impression I get too.