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Little starbursts across the room
Nov. 1st, 2008 01:15 pmPeople like me who enjoy the thrill of being horrified and disgusted at Sarah Palin, and have a nasty and selfish part of their id that wants her ticket to win so that she'll continue filling us with delicious and highest-quality outrage for years to come, can rest easy. I figure that her 2008 RNC speech will do for her what Obama's 2004 DNC speech did for him.
I'm not saying that it will propel her into the white house in 2012; more that it gave her a tremendous memetic fuel supply, enough to keep her on-stage as long as she wishes. This is a woman who is not going to pack up and go back to Alaska after the election. She's here to stay, for at least one or two more cycles. She's gonna have a tough row to hoe given the fact that the GOP is redefining itself even as I type this and it's hard to say what her base will look like in four years, but there absolutely will be a base waiting for her if she wants it.
I dunno her personally; maybe she'll get discouraged, or have an honest change of heart, and voluntarily withdraw from national politics. But I bet that she won't. Win-win!
I'm not saying that it will propel her into the white house in 2012; more that it gave her a tremendous memetic fuel supply, enough to keep her on-stage as long as she wishes. This is a woman who is not going to pack up and go back to Alaska after the election. She's here to stay, for at least one or two more cycles. She's gonna have a tough row to hoe given the fact that the GOP is redefining itself even as I type this and it's hard to say what her base will look like in four years, but there absolutely will be a base waiting for her if she wants it.
I dunno her personally; maybe she'll get discouraged, or have an honest change of heart, and voluntarily withdraw from national politics. But I bet that she won't. Win-win!