Politico: Palin may have accomplishments or intellect as "substantial as a souffle"...

[jefferson_dem]

but none of that matters.

Palin hasn’t seen the last of stories looking for contradictions or flaws in her record, or suggesting that her accomplishments or intellect are as substantial as a souffle.

But by presenting an engaging side of herself and her family, she ensured that those stories, written mainly by political and investigative reporters, will be countered by other stories written mainly by lifestyle reporters.

People magazine reporters and bookers for "The View" and "Oprah" will be watching Palin with a lot more interest than they will be watching Joe Biden. In Palin's own way, her story and rapid rise are as arresting to the mass audience as Obama’s.

And many voters in these big audiences likely will swoon for a telegenic hockey mom who eats moose she kills herself. You can’t make this stuff up. Her story is made for TV, glossy mags and the big screen.

A mother of five with a pregnant daughter. A ruggedly handsome husband who drills oil and races snowmobiles. She hunts. She fishes. She runs.

She is now a curiosity in a good way. That means big crowds at events and attention from people who otherwise might have ignored a more traditional ticket of two, old, rich, white Republican men who promise to kill terrorists and cut taxes.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/How_Palin_helps.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. You're going to eat this shit sandwich, America. Oh yes you will.

Because you're too fucking stupid to see past the packaging.

[dsc]

2. The most ridiculous part of this is that Biden's story is as compelling as hers

and he has substance. He raised, as a single dad Senator, his children after his wife and daughter died in a car wreck. Then he has survived a potentially fatal aneurism.