We need the laughs. Keep her coming.
Source: Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket
So is today the practical end of the political career for Palin, who turned a Wasilla town council seat and a corruption expose of her own party into a surprise upset of the long-entrenched Republican establishment ruling the nation's largest state, and then defeated a better-known returning Democratic governor in the 2006 election finals?
Or is today merely the end of the beginning for the unconventional, grassroots-talking hockey mom who has the one thing every politician covets and very few have -- star quality, that ability to force people to pay attention simply by their presence? (See video above.) Bill Clinton has it. So does Barack Obama. Like them or not, people turn and look when they're around.
By conventional political standards, Palin's caribou is cooked.
She's quitting a powerful elected position that only 50 Americans hold, a chief executive's office in....
...some state capital, a job that's produced four of the last six presidents. It's a prominent political pulpit, although the world rarely tunes in to Juneau.
Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/sara...
Our long national nightmare, however, is probably not over.
We need the laughs. Keep her coming.
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