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You know the Left insanely hates and are horribly terrified of a person when they offer untold riches to entice close friends of that person to betray that person.

1. If some one writes or collaborates on a "tell all" book about you, that person was never your "close friend" to begin with ... Even if you slept with that person.

James Hewitt, a former British household cavalry officer in the British Army, had an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales for five years.He received extensive media coverage after revealing details of the affair.

2. Greed was not invented by the Left or the Right. If you are a public figure that the People Magazine crowd wants juicy gossip about, you are guaranteed to be the subject of a book or tabloid headline if you were careless about airing your dirty laundry to the wrong people.

The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down

3. Just because you are the subject of a "tell all" book does not mean that anybody "fears" you. It just means that selling your dirty laundry makes the author and the publisher money.

Lindsay Lohan's Assistant Offered Tell-All Book Deal

I kind of like anti-Palin posts... her defenders far outnumber her critics here

The operative word is "here".

Does it really matter that Ralph Nader is wildly popular among his own, adoring Fan Club but crashes and burns when he runs for President every four years when everybody else outside of the adoring Fan Club gets to vote?

Outside of the Echo Chamber of the Sarah Palin Fan Club threads on Free Republic, such as Pissant's critical threads, things are different. Outside of Free Republic altogether, the situation is drastically different.

FOX News Poll (February 7-9, 2011)

Question 3: I am going to read you a list of names. Tell me if you think that person would make a good President or not.

Sarah Palin:

...............YES.........NO.......DK.....Never heard of

All .............23%.......72%.......4%.......1%

Dem ............7%.......87%........5%.......1%

Rep ...........40%.......56%.......3%.......1%

Ind ...........25%........69%.......3%.......1%

My main concern is ensuring that Barrack Hussein Obama is NOT reelected President in 2012.

Since a guaranteed way to get Barrack Hussein Obama reelected President in 2012 is for Republicans to be so foolish as to nominate a person that 72% of ALL voters believe would NOT make a good President, I tried to instill some degree of reality into the uncritical and irrational worship of Sarah Palin.

"Palin couldn't explain why North Korea and South Korea were separate nations. ..... Asked to identify the enemy that her son would be fighting in Iraq, she drew a blank. Later, on the plane, Palin said to her team: 'I wish I'd paid more attention to this stuff'."

Thank you—you have supplied added evidence to my original hypothesis.

There is no difference between pithy and verbose PDS spin— only levels of mendacity.

Thank you again.

Nothing like linking to a hit piece in a liberal magazine - citing moronic McCain campaign advisors - to try and close out your point.

And I wonder what polling for Ronald Reagan as a potential president would have looked like in, say, 1975 or so?

Oh, and I have my own concerns about Palin, I am in no way a true believer. I just know that normal FReepers post liberal talking points on FR for target practice, not to try and buttress their arguments.

Even better, here is a snippet about polling in 1979:

http://articles.cnn.com/2007-11-06/politics/schneider.one.year_1_republican-polls-democratic-field-democratic-front-runner?_s=PM:POLITICS

The year-before polls got it wrong twice. In 1979, the polls predicted Carter would beat Reagan.