The Misunderestimation of Sarah Palin...

[HipChick]

http://www.politicususa.com/en/misunderestimating-sarah-palin

But this is what Sarah does. She takes money and adoration from the myth she sells.


This is why the woman the GOP thought was going to be their puppet is in fact the tail waging the dog. Yes, she regurgitates their ideology and is a great agitator for them – puppeting their divisive spin. But in this way, Palin doesn’t see how she’s being used by the Republican Party. Ultimately, in her mind, she has the power.

As long as the base loves Sarah, she does hold some power. But what Sarah can’t see, as most egomaniacs and narcissists can’t, is reality. The reality is that when the Republican Party is done with her, they will leak information out about her that will sink her ship before she knows what caused the hole.
if they play this the way they have of late, they will leak it to the much pseudo-reviled mainstream media. A whisper campaign will commence. Fliers will be left on cars. From nowhere, a siege of negativity will descend upon the previously adored candidate. Her base will never know why, she will never know why. She will be cut off at the knees by her own Party by the same kind of vicious smears she rapidly indulges in against her own perceived enemies.

And as Sarah knows, there’s plenty to leak. This is her weakness and the Republican Party is not above using it against her when she gets out of line.


Inner circles of the Republican Party have long been saying they will keep her around as the loss leader for 2012, the candidate who will generate hype and attack Obama and stir up the base. But she won’t be their candidate. If by some stretch of the imagination (or rather, if our economy is not recovered), Palin gets the nomination because her base is the primary base of conservatives, she will be their sacrificial lamb to Obama

She’s chaotic because she believes she is in charge. She believes she holds all of the power. She believes she does not need anyone other than her salivating entourage of yes people. She plays her way and they will accept it because they will be forced to accept it. Palin is not going to run as a traditional candidate. And while many candidates play this card, the difference is, she believes this illusion. Palin is no Yale preppie posing as a cowboy, knowing he’s selling a populist narrative. Palin believes in that narrative, almost as much as her base do, and furthermore, she believes she was mantled by God to be President. That’s some powerful ego at play.

Palin’s biggest weakness is her inability to assess herself accurately. Palin has always put all of her cards into her charm basket. She is beloved by the people. She proudly told an opponent after a debate, during which she never bothered to answer one question, that she didn’t need to answer questions because the people loved her. The people did love her. Some still do.

[mysticalchick]

1. Good article that nails it ...

... when this shit hits the fan (and it will), it's going to be (as the kids say) EPIC. She has no clue what awaits her when TPTB in the R's are done with her.



Me = :popcorn:

[tanyev]

8. And once they do hang her out to dry, she's not the kind that will go quietly.

:popcorn:

[Bitwit1234]

2. First look at Linda Tripp

they got her to undermine Monica and what happened when they were thru with her? When the Bush regime took over she got fired and couldn't get a job any place. Ended up selling hot dogs and sausages on the street.

Then we have Katherine Harris, who stopped the counting of the ballots in Florida which lead to the appeal to the five republican activist judges. Who in turn appointed Bush to the presidency. Then when she ran for the senate, none, not one republican endorsed her candidacy in the primary, not even old Jebbie boy after she had made it possible for Bush jr to be president. She lost her bid, with no support and no money and skittered away into obscurity.

Guess that's what they do to all their women.

[WinkyDink]

7. Don't know where you got your Tripp info, but she didn't get a hot-dog cart:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Tripp
Since the Lewinsky scandal Tripp has moved to Northern Virginia, had extensive plastic surgery, married German architect Dieter Rausch in 2004 and opened with her new husband a year-round Christmas shop, called the Christmas Sleigh, in Middleburg, Virginia.

[DCKit]

9. BushCo* did that to dozens of people... not just the gals.

Loyalty in that crowd is a one-way, dead-end street.

And they don't get it.

[Scuba]

3. It may not be possible to underestimate Sarah Palin...

...remember, she could crawl even farther into her cesspool of lies and hatred.

[secondwind]

4. In some way, I think she knows how much above water she is, which is why her family

is forbidden to talk about her in any way, and anyone around her is forbidden to talk to the press.


She is very much aware of how fragile her situation is!!!

[sellitman]

5. My hope for Dear, Dear Sarah....

I hope she runs as the "Teaparty candidate when the Rethugs dump her ignorant ass out the door.

She could become the Ralph Nader of the right.


Run Dear run!

[livetohike]

6. She hasn't been drawing big crowds on the Tea Party Express

bus stops. Once she realizes that people are laughing at her, instead of with her, she will have a meltdown.

[mrs_p]

10. this is a most excellent article. nt

[Johonny]

11. Why would she run for office ever again?

She is into the major reward for the GOP, the endless gravy train of ghost written books, bland fact less TV shows, endless scripted paid for speeches... For Republicans she is in the place they all want to be in. They don't care about governance. Republicans are crazy if they think leaking negative info will HURT her imagine. The more you attack these talking heads the more the base loves them. See Rush, Hannity, Williams from NPR, the base has been taught that negative PR is a badge of honor for being right.