Posted on 04/20/2011 1:29:38 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
According to the latest polls, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s political popularity trajectory is heading south. It was inevitable given our 24/7 fame-obsessed culture which feeds on new personalities and controversy to fuel the celebrity media machine.
Once Sarah Palin resigned from her office as Alaska governor, she left that respected “higher platform” reserved for our elected leaders and crossed over into celebrity jungle.
There, she willingly subjected herself to the unforgiving forces of media pop culture, where the masses are easily bored. And now, without a new hit show, movie, book, clothing line, charity cause, or fragrance, Palin is vying for the same celebrity space as Lady Gaga and Charlie Sheen. And worse for her, according to the Washington Post, Palin “rarely seems to break through into the national dialogue.”
Since her successful 2009 launch into the media pop culture, Palin’s “brand” has remained essentially the same and her fan base has not widened. Now after two years in the celebrity maelstrom, as her star is starting to flicker, she must do what all celebrities need do to stay on top: re-invent herself. Otherwise, Sarah Palin appears destined for a twirl on Dancing with the Stars during the 2013 season.
There is no doubt that in these past two years former Palin has had a good run. Consider her list of accomplishments: Fox News contributor, best-selling author, a reality TV show, success as a political fundraiser, champion of conservative causes, Tea Party leader, a bold critic of President Obama, a master of social media, and a “kingmaker” in the 2010 midterm elections — while the question of will she or won’t she run for president swirled around her like an Iowa tornado.
But the question remains: is Sarah Palin’s expiration date about up?
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
“Fight Like a Girl!”, “Game On” and that other “Get used to it!” phrase do not exactly inspire a broad appeal to the average apolitical voter. If anything, it repels them.”
Pissant, is that you? Did you sneak back in here under a different pseudonym from a different ISP? If so, we’re gonna out you.
“I never have liked Romney and always saw him as a cheap used car salesman.”
I saw Trump selling used cars at the Mercedes lot, so he is an expensive used car salesman.
Many are EXTREMELY eloquent in their comparisions of Trump and Palin, and also in analyzing just how "objective" (LOL, Psycho!!!!) the author of this Pajamas piece is.
Read the comments. For anyone who has faith in Palin and regards her as I do -- the best hope for 2012 (no, I don't think she's a messiah! yeeeeeesh! A lot of people here think that if you support Palin, you automatically are a "cult of personality" type who has regards her as a Messiah ... such accusation revealing more about the accuser than the accused, and I am mentioning it here to head it off at the pass) ... anyway, READ THE COMMENTS and if you're a Palin fan, by gosh ... it will not only beef up your ammunition in the war on ignorance RE limited government conservatism and Palin, but it will do your heart good. It did mine!
I should have said: "Maybe Pajamas and the author (whom Psycho calls "objective"! LOL!) are anti-Palin, but man o manischevitz ... the majority of the readers making comments sure as hell ain't."
Hey, EPU — if you haven’t already, please read the reader comments at the Pajamas Media site in response to the piece. They’re very uplifting and encouraging!
There are about 24,000 news stories on Palin a day, and since her fabulous speech to the Republican Convention in 2008 almost all of them have told us that she was past her prime. Anyone who has been that “not newsworthy” for that long . . . is still newsworthy . . . even if it’s Trump instead of Obama or Mitt or Bachmann or Huck or Liza Morecowlike or DeMint who has finally pushed her into oblivion. Sorry, but I don’t buy it.
I’m not a committed Palin supporter; I’ll listen to all the options next year and check their track records against their (in some cases empty) words. Still, so far, Palin, DeMint, and Bachmann are my top three choices. Trump? He doesn’t make my list of top tier candidates, although at least he’s not (yet) on my list of those like Romney who will not get my vote even if they are the GOP nominee.
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