Think what you will of Sarah Palin, but she made a really good first impression on the national stage: remember her VP-nomination speech in 2008?
Of course, she’s been such an unmitigated embarrassment since then that Republicans can be forgiven for thinking that speech was just a political wet dream. Which makes watching her flirtation with a presidential run this year about as titillating and engaging as watching re-runs of the Real Housewives of Washington DC … exactly!
[T]he latest darling of the Republican Party [is] Texas Governor Rick Perry [but] he’s starting off where Palin has ended up: as a talking head with no brain.
(And the republican nominee is…, The iPINIONS Journal, September 9, 2011)
Clearly, given the above, it came as no surprise to me when Palin announced yesterday that she was only flirting with the idea of running for president. But nothing demonstrated what a craven, frivolous, and insignificant interloper she was quite like Governor Chris Christie announcing his decision not to run the day before with a bang of a press conference on the one hand, and Palin announcing hers with a whimper of a press statement on the other.
God forbid she’d ever subject her dodgy political actions, dubious political pronouncements and dollar-inspired political motives to questioning by any reporter except her enabling sycophants at FOX News.
But thank God Steve Jobs’ timely death is sucking up so much air time that even FOX’s talking heads are having a difficult time devoting as much attention to her inane and innocuous press statement as they surely would like.