Kinda like Hitler, nicht wahr?

Of course, the problem I see is not the people who will see Palin and vessel and chief, but the corrupt and cowardly, above all undisciplined, Weimar Democrats in Congress who have all that prefrontal cortex stuff, but apply it in 15 minute intervals to opportunistic advancement of purely personal advantages or conceits.

The 30% of the electorate Palin et alia will mobilize can defeat and demoralize a bewildered and betrayed majority overwhelmed by anxiety at a civilian government the President cannot even staff, much less lead into anything but half-baked schemes.

So let me get this straight, the real danger is a bunch of weak kneed corporate democrats? Umm, no. Witness the news today re: Nelson and Landrieu; they can be brought along.

The problem is people who refuse to live in the real World, because there's no debating or negotiating with them.

We can't stop talking about her even when we desperately want to.

Please. "Want to" a little more. About 99.9 percent of this woman's political heft is conjured out of thin air by the alchemy of media attention. Nothing more. A lapsed, quitter governor of a boondock state is suddenly a standard-bearer of American conservativism because this country's news industry evidently is dazzled by purty colors and sparkly beads. Face it, dammit: She's a far-Right refrigerator magnet. If the media gave her the attention she deserves, by now she'd be dumped on the same heap as Tara Reid and Vanilla Ice - 14 minutes of fame and GONE!

Our healthcare is in shambles and the big industry players are running the show, our stock market churns profit out of employee pink ships and the rest of us slip into peonage. We are looted from the top, by a system that strips us of meager resources by fiat bank fees and loanshark credit. Our children could end up living in America, The Crumbling Pesthole.

But, by all means, continue propping up the dodgy celebrity of this airhead shill. Rome's burning, and she's a mighty curvy fiddle.

Palin's in it for the money and fame of celebrity. It's obvious. I am amazed that the talking head set, including the author of this piece, haven't figured this out but instead continue to give her exactly what she wants and needs to build up her celebrity. Who gives a damn? There are a whole lot more important things to focus on like Obama's imminent and ill-advised escalation of the war in Afghanistan, the fact that the administration continues to serve Wall Street hat in hand while it does absolutely nothing to create jobs for the people and even less to stem the exploding mortgage crisis. But instead we focus on gossip and speculation about this idiotic nit wit?

Any good politician knows that you move more voters through emotion than you do through logic. Issues are important, but only insofar as they elicit the desired emotional response in the voter.

Put another way: you campaign in poetry. Of course if you get elected you now have another job and that is to govern -- which you do in prose.

By now, none of this should not be a surprise; nor should it even be considered a bad thing.

After all, have we already forgotten that the last election was won by the candidate of hope who defeated the candidate of fear?

So what Sarah Palin is doing shouldn't be so shocking -- rather it is predictable.

The question is this: will her opponent(s) in both parties be able to defeat her with emotional appeals of their own?

Her comment was not an attack on community organizers, it was a justified swipe at the total lack of experience Obama had while his supporters were intent on questioning her considerably greater experience. And don't tell me how smart he is, lets see him talk without his teleprompter and without being briefed on the questions in advance.

Your insight into how she stirs the limbic system is thought provoking. Palin is a media-created figment and a projective test. I am dumbfounded by the adoration she gets from women. They can turn against her as witnessed by the crowd going rogue on her at the Noblesville IN book signing http://is.gd/4ZWBY. Her face and hair, which look so amazing on TV, must look pretty strange in person (and I live in Manhattan and see a lot of extreme plastic surgery and hair extensions). Methinks the more she is seen up close at these book signings the more likely people like those in this crowd will not be so ready to see her as a mirror of themselves and be out of love with her.

What's with all the Sarah Palin posts?

Sarah who?