Whoops...Sarah Misses the Boat
Some comments at Talking Points Memo today reinforce something that I have been thinking for the last few weeks:
Here's my suspicion: Politicians have a certain amount of shelf life, earned or otherwise. Otherwise, no one would have ever heard of Newt Gingrich since the last century. But Sarah Palin chose, for her own economic benefit, to package herself as a celebrity more than a politician; and celebrities come and go in the blink of an eye. Sarah Palin is now suffering the fate of a thousand ex-TV stars- she's yesterday's news. People are bored with her. She hid away for so long waiting for the other lunatics who make up the Republican field to self-destruct, that the low-information voters who make up her base have moved on.
Too bad, Sarah. I doubt you are going to be seeing many more $12 million dollar years, let alone moving into the White House any time soon. It was fun while it lasted, I guess.
"Polls show relatively few Republicans clamoring for a Palin run on a national level as the one-time supernova is eclipsed by a crowded presidential contest and an array of new rising stars...
It feels as if Palin's fabled 2012 run, a source of fervent speculation since before the 2008 contest even ended, has already gone out with a whimper. "
It feels as if Palin's fabled 2012 run, a source of fervent speculation since before the 2008 contest even ended, has already gone out with a whimper. "
Here's my suspicion: Politicians have a certain amount of shelf life, earned or otherwise. Otherwise, no one would have ever heard of Newt Gingrich since the last century. But Sarah Palin chose, for her own economic benefit, to package herself as a celebrity more than a politician; and celebrities come and go in the blink of an eye. Sarah Palin is now suffering the fate of a thousand ex-TV stars- she's yesterday's news. People are bored with her. She hid away for so long waiting for the other lunatics who make up the Republican field to self-destruct, that the low-information voters who make up her base have moved on.
Too bad, Sarah. I doubt you are going to be seeing many more $12 million dollar years, let alone moving into the White House any time soon. It was fun while it lasted, I guess.
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