Palin: Ugliness of 2008 could doom hopes in four years

She's reveling in the ugliest corner of her party's support. Rallies over the past week have featured backers yelling racial epithets, calling Obama a terrorist and worse. She has shown not the slightest indication any of this was a problem for her. (Nor, it should be noted, has a certain Connecticut senator on stage with her at a few of these events.)

Palin was in a position to be, in the event of a McCain loss, the leading contender for the 2012 Republican nomination. But she's turned off so many voters in the last month that her party may decide she's too toxic to take a chance on. They don't nominate rabid partisans; George W. Bush ran from the Republican brand as a "compassionate consevative" -- he wasn't one, but he pretended to be -- and McCain has based his entire candidacy on a willingness to go his own way.

What seems likely is that Palin, her relative youth aside, knows that this, too, is her best and only shot at bigger things. The more people find out about her, the less popular she gets. Her favorability rating dropped from plus-20 a month ago to around minus-10 today.

Her routine has already run its course, and there are signs of trouble in her home state of Alaska. The local media is not amused by the goings-on of the past few months, in which every inquiry into happenings at the state capital has been routed through the McCain campaign. And she has a serious abuse-of-power investigation hanging over her head.

After her speech at the Republican convention, it looked like we'd be hearing her name for decades to come. Instead, in three weeks, Sarah Palin may already be a footnote.

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Of GW Bush might also have something to do with her future prospects.

lame brains..... :crazy: :silly: :dunce:

But her character is toxic, and (at least at this moment) most of America knows it. I also think she'll be eviscerated in the upcoming bloodletting attendant upon McCain's loss, in a way that she'll find rehabilitating her reputation rather difficult.

Sort of like William Ayers.

This one is going down in history as worst presidential campaign in a generation and anyone closely associated with it will carry the scars for the rest of their lives in the public sector.

But one of the most is the fact that she merely explained her actions last week as "telling the truth". Furthermore, she did not apologize for the hate speech she spewed during her stump speeches.

What a cold-hearted floozy.

She deserves a place in obscurity. But with my cynical mind, she will be lauded in the press because of her controversiality. She's like Pat Buchanan: a force of evil who will never go away because people "ignore" the nastiness and demeanor that is projected. Because of that reason alone, she will be continue to be talked about.

I wish that there was one thing that would shame her into early retirement once and for all.