What concerns me is the damage that is being done to the efforts to defeat Obama in 2012.
The Palin supporters claim that Palin is "playing the media" but, in actuality, the media is playing them.
The media is lazy. They want stories that sell newspapers and boost ratings without working too hard. Once they find a story that sells, they pound it and pound it and pound it:
* The Charlie Sheen meltdowns
* The Kaylee Anthony murder and Casey Anthony trial
* The Natalee Holloway disappearance in Aruba
* Jon Bennet Ramsey
* The Lindsey Lohan arrests
* The Michael Jackson dramas
* The O.J. Simpson dramas
As long as they boost ratings and sell newspapers, those stories are gleefully pushed by the media. Like obituaries, these stories can be written in advance, filed away and then published when needed by tweaking a few current details.
"Too bad you have to work over the Labor Day weekend, Honey."
"What work? I pulled a 'Will Sarah Run' story from my files that I wrote a month ago and my sister will e-mail it to my editor tomorrow. Pack up the car and get the kids. We're going camping!"
While the media plays the game, the loyal Sarah supporters wait and wait and wait and some get more and more bitter about a Sarah Palin nomination. Some of them threaten to stay home on Election Day if Sarah is not nominated. As one Palin supporter posted on Free Republic a couple of days ago, "If Sarah does not get it, Obama can have it".
The game benefits the media by boosting ratings and selling newspapers but the game is hurting the efforts to defeat Obama in 2012.
“What concerns me is the damage that is being done to the efforts to defeat Obama in 2012.”
Show an iota of evidence of this supposed “damage” you are so ‘Concerned” about. If that is a REAL problem, surely you can provide examples.
:::LOUD Applause::: you hit the nail on the head. Plus a mil from Fox at least 100K for her current and future speeches.She knows she had a few hundred that will drive to listen to her from now until Jesus returns. Isn’t she also writing another book? Maybe another reality show or go on DWTS. Or the money from all the interviews of why she didn’t run and if she really endorses everyone she has in the past. After filling her bank account to the max possibly being the energy secretary and getting us 2 dollar gas.Smart lady to go cha ching,enjoy the money and be an advocate helping the GOP party stop being democrats.