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No, it is NOT okay to quit and make money by starring in reality shows with idiots like Kate Gosselin. That is the sort of thing that will be used by Barrack Obama and his cronies if she ever ran for President in ads that might be as devastating as the Willie Horton ads were for Michael Dukakis.

Here, take this paper bag. Place it over your nose and mouth and breathe normally. You're hyperventilating.

Obama has two auto[sic]biographies written before he even ran for President, and before he could really even be counted as a public figure.

Palin appeared on the show in the aftermath of a premeditated campaign of character assassination, and the show was likely enough to appeal to those most likely to be in sympathy with her should she decide to run for office in the future: working- and middle-class families with outdoorsy tastes. It presented her as "one of us" and "down to earth" in distinction to the carefully crafted image of her as a useless bimbo and prima donna: if anything, it did even more than that, by placing her next to a *real* prima donna in Gosselin.

And all that publicity, not only at no cost to Sarah Palin, but apparently putting money in her pocket: I have read she was paid $1 million / episode.

As far as devastating? I don't think so: she comes across as genuine, dedicated, personable, and humble, as opposed to say John "Can I get me a huntin' license here" Kerry.

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Palin appeared on the show in the aftermath of a premeditated campaign of character assassination, and the show was likely enough to appeal to those most likely to be in sympathy with her should she decide to run for office in the future: working- and middle-class families with outdoorsy tastes.

That is all well and good. That doesn't mean she couldn't have told TLC that she didn't want to appear with an idiot like Kate Gosselin and her eight kids. That turned the whole program into ploy to get ratings by any means necessary.

Can you imagine Ronald Reagan doing something like that in the late 1970s?

And all that publicity, not only at no cost to Sarah Palin, but apparently putting money in her pocket: I have read she was paid $1 million / episode.

If her goal was making money, fine. But, don't pretend all that isn't going to be a weapon used like a sledgehammer against her if she decides to run.

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Palin appeared on the show in the aftermath of a premeditated campaign of character assassination, and the show was likely enough to appeal to those most likely to be in sympathy with her should she decide to run for office in the future: working- and middle-class families with outdoorsy tastes. It presented her as "one of us" and "down to earth" in distinction to the carefully crafted image of her as a useless bimbo and prima donna: if anything, it did even more than that, by placing her next to a *real* prima donna in Gosselin.

Good post GW.

I saw the Gosselin episode. The show clearly demonstrated that it was Sarah and her family who are the down home folks while Kate came off as a jacka$$.

People I know, who don't necessarily like Sarah, thought that show was great. And it was Kate who they were laughing at.