She exceeds Obamas's experience and success record. The game has undergone a quantum leap...and only Palin is keeping step with the new rules.
That is why she is the most influential politician in America at present.
That said, you still get the Nobel Prize...for stupid comments.
But don't get big for your breeches...I have made enough stupid comments to qualify for runner up!;-) And I am just getting started!
She exceeds Obamas's experience and success record. The game has undergone a quantum leap...and only Palin is keeping step with the new rules.
Granted, she did have more executive experience than Obama, but then again, so does my great-aunt Myrtle, who was once president of the flower and garden club.
That being said, I think you have in fact put your finger on an important point, though I doubt you're clever enough to have realised it.
Palin IS in step with the new rules of the game, as Obama changed them. Much of the current sound and fury over Palin revolves around her "star power." She's a celebrity, just as Obama was, so there are hordes of people on the Right who fawn over her, just like the Left did with Obama.
There are tons of people on the Right who willingly suspend disbelief and adopt an entire mythology about her accomplishment, about why her quitting the AK governour was a good thing instead of being a selfish breach of the public trust, and so forth - just like there are many on the Left who willingly suspend disbelief so that Barack Obama can remain their knight in shining armour.
Sarah Palin - as we see on this very thread - is popular, and in fact bitterly defended by her most ardent supporters - because she represents the "correction" of America's sexist past, just as BHO represented a correction of America's racist past. We need Sarah to prove that horrible knuckledraggers like pissant are a thing of the past, and so forth. So in essence, Sarah Palin, at least for many of her supporters, is an icon of identity politics. We need her, not so much because she's really done much, but because of the particular anatomical equipment she was installed with at conception.
So yes, you're right, in many ways, Sarah Palin IS in step with the new politics - celebrity rock star, cult of personality, identity politics.
She does, I must admit, have the advantage of being a natural-born citizen, at least.
That said, you still get the Nobel Prize...for stupid comments.
Esplain me again why I should care what you think about anything?