A 2012 election prediction: “maverick” Sarah Palin will run while not running, then attempt to circumvent the actual primaries in some mavericky way. Heck, she may even not run, not win, and set up her own not-shadow government in a “Maverick House” in Wasilla, D.C.
She is a prime candidate for most annoying political personality in the history of political personalities. And that’s pretty high cotton with Newt Gingrich still kicking. It is, in a strange way, cool that the uber-Palin, Michele Bachmann, is out there at the same time spreading her own brand of ill-informed fever. They’re bound to be like two negative magnetic poles, causing furious windstorms if they come within miles of each other.
The most deeply annoying fact about Palin is that her “non-candidacy” is so wonderfully successful at playing the media for a bunch of ninnies. I happened to catch a news story (on ABC?) about her current “not running for president this is just a family vacation why won’t you media people stop persecuting me” bus tour. She’s busy keeping a low profile with her family, riding around in a bus covered with images of the Constitution and accidentally gathering crowds of people to come see her not running. The story could not have been more tailor-made and utterly silly if her non-press people had written it themselves.
It’s enough to make you want to go all Rip van Winkle till Nov. 3, 2012.
ADDITIONAL: Like most of us, I’ve never quite been able to make sense of Fred Phelps’ supposedly religious views which seem to compel him and his flock of followers to traipse around the country offending homosexuals, soldiers, familes of soldiers at funerals, Christians, non-Christians, and most anyone else with a pulse.
But you know you’ve pretty much succeeded in being the most loathed religious extremist of the modern age when even the KKK thinks you’re taking things too far.
But will they protest Palin’s family vacation?
