David Letterman used to make a point of wasting "network time" on dumb stuff. The in-joke was "Can you believe we are doing a network broadcast and yet we're just showing videos of squirrels?" I found that funny, for a time. Until I realized he wasn't just wasting the network's time with the squirrel videos; he was wasting my time, too. I stopped considering myself one of the people "inside the joke," laughing at NBC, and started considering myself one of the people being punked with time-wasting exercises.
At some point, it really does make you wonder whose time is being wasted, doesn't it?
People are people, and politicians are politicians. One you start putting them on different scales or up on pedestals, it's easy to lose perspective and think them angels instead. They're not, though. Just individual humans like the rest of us, doing things, saying things, and fighting for things in their own way. For as deep as Palin must know her support runs, and for as narrow as the polls suggest it is, she's working at a curious angle. If she doesn't make herself clear soon, it could result in a lot of broken hearts.
If she doesn’t make herself clear soon, it could result in a lot of broken hearts.
Support for all of these other candidates is very soft and Gov. Palin could, as Huckabee said, “run away with it” when she jumps in. He may well be right.