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She's the trial version. The fascists are looking for a "Margaret Thatcher" type. They will either spend the next eight years "reinventing" Palin or they will learn from this experience and bring out a new model in eight years.
A couple of things to remember. The corporate media can create just about any reality it wants. Give it four years and it can have a majority of the American people ready to carry Sarah Palin into the White House on their shoulders. The mistake this time was to introduce her in the midst of a campaign where she was linked to a doddering old fool and against a smooth politician with a good machine and a lot of popular support - and to do it in the heat of the campaign.
Had they introduced her on the scene gradually, the media could have turned her into the new Ronald Reagan, not that it would impress most of us, but it would impress a lot of other people.
The other thing to remember is that the fascists learn very well from their mistakes. Everything that cost them support in Vietnam -- the draft, intense TV coverage of the war and returning bodies, and massive public demos -- they avoided this time around. They will learn from this too. And they adapt.
So, either they will try to retread Sarah and foist her off on us again. Or, they will toss her on the slag heap and bring out Version 2.0, which will have a lot of the bugs worked out.
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