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We'll lamment over the trials and tribulations of Sarah Barracuda...the next installment of Palin Place.
Yep, the right wing is hitching their wagon to the "pitbull" and hoping she can mush them to the promise land. Problem is, as the voters said last week, that promised land is mush as well. The right has little to take away from this election. They lost the Executive and seats in both houses. They're on a major two year losing streak that took them from nearly having veto-proof houses to becoming an irrelevant, regional party. And, those who need to learn the lessons now are the ones who are trying to live in their parallel universe.
Here's Sarah's problem...first, there's an election in 2010. If she choses to take Stevens senate seat, she'll be backbenched over the next couple years (as Senators usually are) and I see this especially the case in the "boys club" that is the Senate and especially among the GOOP caucus where she's sure to rub nerves raw. If she stays in Alaska, she becomes the target of a high profile challenge in 2010 that could easily rehash all the crap from this election and get a lot of national attention. Unless the Barracuda wins by a large margin, the qusetions will start to nag.
But that's too far down the road...right now, this is a big right wing wet dream. The fun is the more Palin yaks, the more it reassures those who voted against her that they made the right choice. When that happens, you're politically dead...Quayled!
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