She is a promiscuous, petty and unintelligent, yet deviously conniving warmonger intent on capturing the Oval Office and, from there, the world.Geez, how unhappy do you have to be in your own life to try and destroy someone else's success? These people are so jealous of her success they've lost all sense of reality.
Those are just some of the opinions about Sarah Palin held by members of a small, but extremely active network of gadflies, bloggers and authors who have devoted much of the last 2 ½ years to proving their case to American voters.
This self-styled anti-Palin movement – whose members span the globe and are mostly, but not exclusively, liberals – has been behind some embarrassing revelations about the former Alaska governor, her family and allies. But some of their leading theories have been thoroughly discredited, and earned them widespread criticism.
Yet that only seems to have hardened a commitment to accomplishing what they profess to be their ultimate goal: the absolute and complete exposure of Palin as a fraud unworthy of a role in American civic life. And now, with Palin edging back into the political spotlight in the face of flagging poll numbers, they believe that they are closer than ever to achieving it.
A number of forthcoming books promise to delve deeply into – and, they believe, give mainstream credibility to – some of the more salacious Palin rumors and conspiracy theories that have sprouted in the anti-Palin blogosphere and on supermarket tabloid stands, but have mostly been rejected by the mainstream media.
“We’re at a tipping point, where her character and her lack of ethics will be revealed on the national stage,” asserted Sherry Whitstine, a 49-year-old grandmother who lives in Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, and has infuriated her famous neighbors with blog posts and online comments accusing Palin of being unfaithful in her marriage and corrupt in her political career.
“Some things are just going to come light that they just won’t be able to shake and I have faith in that. It has already started, but these books will add to it,” she said.
I'm still not convinced that Palin is planning to run for anything. If I were her I'd try to keep doing just what I was doing for as long as I could - travel around making speeches and personal appearances for big bucks. She can play kingmaker in the GOP by throwing her support...or withholding her support...from candidates for 2012 without having to get into the weeds of policies. And she can be a very effective foil against Obama. Every time she posts something on Facebook the White House has to scramble to respond. And as this editorial shows, she's often ahead of the curve on key issues.
She's a go-to person for Fox News, so she has the chance to get her views into the public debate pretty much any time she wants. And she can do it with virtually no accountability. It's an ideal situation for a political pundit.
All she would have to do to completely undermine the anklebiters is announce she's not running for president. Whatever value there was in their books will drop to zero. No one will really care anymore about all the rumors.
Maybe that's her plan - let the anklebiters get all hyped up for a presidential run and then pull the run out from under them. It would be a beautiful thing.
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Ah, yes, the dumb woman/evil genius dichotomy strikes again.
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