Sarah Palin announced yesterday that she is not going to run for President in 2012. There hadn't been the keen anticipation awaiting this announcement that there had been for Chris Christie's decision. (By the way, has there ever been a more Christian name than the Governor of New Jersey's?)
Palin had pretty much already become a sideshow by this point anyway. She was widely acknowledged, even by most Republicans, to be a woman who had ascended to the national stage through a combination of ambition, circumstance, luck, and looks. (In this, she is not all that different from many, although she did it in politics, an arena in which she seemed particularly unqualified.)
In any case, as a result of McCain's having picked her to be his Vice Presidential nominee, and her resulting fame, Palin has been a staple on political talk shows for the past three years.
But upon seeing the announcement this morning, it occurred to me what show she would have been best suited for:
Real Housewives of Wasilla.
She may not have had the intellectual wherewithal to discuss foreign policy. But she certainly had the energy level, the ambition, the narcissism, the cattiness, the sex appeal, and the shamelessness to appear on that reality series.
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On the topic of Presidential candidates, I'd be interested to find out what you think of this:
http://www.americanselect.org/
Taylor --
I actually like that. I'm all for direct referendums and direct votes rather than having our policies decided by elected representatives who are beholden to their campaign contributors. It's not constitutional, but our Founding Fathers hadn't foreseen campaign contributions as having such incredible influence on our government either.
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