I cringed when I saw Palin there the other night. 95 percent of that crowd loathes her and uses her as their punch line every chance they get.
SNL basically destroyed her with the Tina Fey character in 2008. And instead of Palin figuring out how to both ignore and rebut that ended up going on the show in 2008 and embracing and reinforcing the parody.
And now she decides to remind everyone of it again the other night. I just don’t think she has any self awareness of the fact SNL defined her badly. Either that or she doesn’t care. Neither is a great answer if you are a conservative.
You and a lot of others are missing the point entirely. Palin knows very well what these people are. Her doing this kind of thing is like a raid into enemy territory. Look at some of the other pictures, the woman carried a fur purse into the middle of these frauds. I Love It! From the meows of M Dowd, it sounds like she was the belle of the ball (holding court) much to the dismay of the lefty cats. I’ve seen it before, these lefties fall all over theirselves to meet her. I think she has a great sense of irony about the whole thing, and enjoys tweaking them.