Not only is Sarah Palin going to avoid potentially unfriendly interviewers as part of her book blitz - she’s going to avoid potentially unfriendly towns:
Sarah Palin’s book tour is a gift for her base.
No stops are planned in Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and other major cities and book-buying communities that are standard for […]

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Ain’t it, tho?
On her Facebook page yesterday, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin announced that she was “very excited about the upcoming road trip” to promote her book, which will be released later this month. As CNN’s Alexander Mooney notes, Palin “hinted she’d likely sit down with a string of friendly faces during the tour that […]

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Taibbi runs a piece on Palin he wrote that was never published, which probably gets at the conservative culture-war mindset better than anything I’ve seen:
Just as she had during the campaign last fall, Palin defied rational analysis by making a primal connection with the subterranean resentments of white middle America, which is apparently so pissed […]

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Sarah Palin read wrote a book. Did you know that? Well, obviously, she didn’t actually write it herself. But as Sullivan notes, it’s already being praised on the right (even though it’s not out yet) by the likes of John Fund in the WSJ not only as a potential best-seller - which it will surely […]

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Sullivan:
Politico surveys the GOP base and finds Palin-mania still strong. I think she perfectly represents a form of protest cultural politics that has no interest in actually governing. And what’s fascinating about the various quotes from local GOP machers is that none of them refers in any way to policy. She is not supported because […]

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Water is wet. The sky is blue.
Sarah Palin is an idiot:
In an interview with the New York Times in April, the president suggested that such a group, working outside of “normal political channels,” should guide decisions regarding that “huge driver of cost . . . the chronically ill and those toward the end of their […]

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That’s what I like about Sarah Palin - she’s so principled.

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Sarah Palin is running real hard, trying to get out in front of the parade so she can lead it:
Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin defended her claim that the Democratic health care proposal would create “death panels” in a statement Wednesday night slamming President Barack Obama. …
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“Section 1233 authorizes advanced care planning consultations for […]

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Must steal. Via both Sullivan and John Cole, this would be Sarah Palin’s farewell address - as “interepreted” by - who else? - William Shatner.
Update: Good call, City, link now fixed here.

Palin’s original would have been way better with bongos. Actually, Palin’s original would have been better if it had been coherent. But then the same might […]

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This would be Peggy Noonan, famously a Republican, on Sarah Palin:
In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn’t say what she read because she didn’t read anything. She was utterly unconcerned […]

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Sullivan:
McCain knew full well that Palin was unqualified to be commander-in-chief at this period of time; and he knew there was no way she could ever learn enough to do the job. So his decision to pick her was pure cynicism and irresponsibility. The MSM knew full well that there were very serious questions about […]

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Ross Douthat’s defense of Palin in the NYT has been making the rounds, and I have to say that I don’t disagree with certain aspects of it:
One hopes that was intentional. A Sarah Palin who stepped down for the sake of her family and her media-swarmed state deserves sympathy even from the millions of Americans […]

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Via Sullivan, Dave Weigel over at the Washington Independent makes the exact point we’ve been making ’round these parts:
This is fascinating. In 2004, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) lost the presidency with 48.3 percent of the vote, and no one seriously suggested that they represented “real Americans” or anything else. As […]

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Had been sent a link elsewhere by an old friend to a piece on how Palin’s move signaled her own personal “Declaration of Independence“:
Sarah Palin sounded just like us! We, the people, understood every single word she said. This is the reason she is wildly popular in the first place. She IS one of us!
Identity […]

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Agree entirely:
This was obviously an incredibly hasty decision, with no prepared speech, delivered almost to minimize its publicity impact on the Friday of a federal holiday before the Fourth of July. If she were really re-launching her career in a new media-driven, Fox-News, Huckabee-Limbaugh vehicle, she would surely have set up the launch a little […]

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Good grief.
One day after announcing that she’s resigning, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blasted the media for their coverage of her surprise move and asserted that she’s held to a higher standard by reporters.
Palin, who has not had a public schedule for the July 4th holiday, posted a message on her Facebook page just before 5 O’clock Eastern describing […]

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Smart piece, as usual, by Daniel Larison:
Palin was surrounded and cheered on by almost nothing but yes-men, because once anyone tried to offer any kind of criticism that person seemed to become persona non grata in her circle and in the wider conservative world pretty quickly. That is why a reasonable column offering advice and […]

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What John Cole said:
Her resignation simply makes no sense at all. I feel the same way I did a couple weeks ago when Sanford was AWOL and no one knew where he was- you have no evidence that he was doing something wrong, but the behavior is just so bizarre you can’t figure it out. […]

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Hm. It’s one thing to not run in 2010, setting yourself up for a presidential run instead. It’s another thing to quit before your current term is up. Maybe another shoe yet to drop?
Update: Josh Marshall following pretty closely. Something is up here. This is pretty much the ultimate news dump - 4 p.m. on […]

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Like Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, only Jan shoots wolves from helicopters.
Two bits over at Sullivan’s place that tie together - first a live quip from Charles Krauthammer:
“[Palin] is not a serious candidate for the presidency. She had to go home and study and spend a lot of time on issues in which she was not adept […]

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