Move along home …
Someone needs to tell the bloggers, the mainstream media and Sarah Palin herself that the election is over and it’s time for her to go home.
Seriously, I am so sick of hearing about her. It reminds me of when I was seventeen years old and played a popular supporting role in the school play. After the play was over, I expected my temporary and unexpected celebrity to continue. It didn’t.
Playing to a political base isn’t enough to win elections. It didn’t work for Bob Dole, it didn’t work for John McCain and it certainly didn’t work for Sarah Palin. Beloved by conservatives, the exit polls following the election showed that Palin was pretty much reviled by just about everyone else. And yet here she is at the Republican Governor’s meeting talking about Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder just like it was still November 3.
If Palin wants another shot, she needs to go back to Alaska, read up on foreign and domestic policy, and come back in four years to show that she’s a radically different candidate. If she doesn’t, then her fifteen minutes are over. There’s no way that Palin as currently defined can win the center.
But hey, at least Camille Paglia still loves her, right?
By C-Dawwwwg, November 14, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
How do you feel about Hilary Clinton being back in the spotlight? Many news sources are saying she’s the top contender for Secretary of State.
By Frank Naif, November 14, 2008 @ 10:07 pm
It would be swell if Sarah Palin and media obsession over her would fade quietly into the night.
What is with Camille Paglia’s googly-eyed crush on Palin? I count myself as a die-hard Paglia fan, but I find her pontifications about the women she admires be incomprehensible.
For all of Paglia’s crowing about the decline of classic culture, why does she give so much credit to female figures who are such coarse examples, like Madonna, and now Sarah Palin?