Anchorage Daily News: Exposure changes Palin image for good, bad

[RamboLiberal]

Over the past six weeks, Sarah Palin has morphed on the national campaign trail from bipartisan small state governor to a conservative lightning rod. Even if she doesn't win the vice presidency, her political career will never be the same.

Palin has always attracted controversy, but she is now a far more polarizing figure, both in Alaska as well as nationally, than before her nomination. If she returns, the Republican governor will face former Democratic allies furious at her campaign attacks. She will also face lawmakers from both parties ticked off at her handling of the so-called Troopergate investigation and her recent false assertions that the investigator's report cleared her, according to interviews with a number of lawmakers and others who watch Alaska politics.

"We've seen her do and say things that are shocking to us, so it's going to be different, to put it mildly," said Juneau Democratic Rep. Beth Kerttula, the House minority leader. "We have a whole different way of looking at her."

But Palin would also return as a national figure who excited huge crowds across the nation and is already being described as a potential presidential candidate four years from now. She continues to enjoy high approval ratings among Alaskans, and she would come back a seasoned campaigner with new political chops.

"The main thing is, if she comes back as governor and McCain didn't win, I do not think she'll be blamed for it all. She won't come back as a loser," said Anchorage political consultant and pollster Dave Dittman. "She'd come back, I think as a winner, or as a person who if McCain had paid more attention to her or followed her lead could have been successful. I think she'd come back strong."

http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/556346.html

Whatever Dem runs against hateful Palin I intend to contribute dollars to the campaign! You can bet this DU'er permanently has the ADN paper on their favorites list to check.

[Sukie]

1. Dittman is a ditthead. Can I say that? :)

I think he is wrong and we won't have to be worrying about a Palin anything in the lower 48, ever again.

[LynnTheDem]

2. Never underestimate the total utter stupidity of the rightwing American voter.

They like voting for total idiots who view them as total idiots and fuck them over good and hard again & again.

Which goes far in explaining why they`re total idiots.