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athelind ([personal profile] athelind) wrote2009-11-18 09:57 am
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-- Somewhere in heaven, PT Barnum looks down on Sarah Palin and sheds a single proud tear.

-- John Rogers, co-creator of Leverage

[identity profile] r-caton.livejournal.com 2009-11-18 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought she got demolished when she was on the veep trail?

[identity profile] hafoc.livejournal.com 2009-11-18 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, as a writer (or I think I am), I recognize that she has a great advantage once she gets away from that live TV camera and into the pages of her own book. In that venue she gets to change what she and her enemies said into what she WISHES they had all said. It's hard to lose an argument in those conditions.

[identity profile] pseudomanitou.livejournal.com 2009-11-19 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
...yes -- and the rumor is that she didn't quit her office in Alaska, but was forced out.

And yet -- she is still popular against all evidence that she is an idiot. So why is that? Do idiots love each other or something? There's value into studying this.