Superstar Sarah is here to stay

From the San Francisco NBC affiliate comes this interesting item, considering the prevailing politics of the Bay area. The author hails from New York City, which has an almost identical political mood. It reads like a warning:

Of the possible 2012 GOP candidates, she's the one who managed to introduce a meme that helped keep the "reform" side completely off-balance. Anyone heard something similar from Huckabee or Pawlenty or Romney? Palin has been the one to tap perfectly into the aggressive nature expressed in town halls across the country.

Obviously, she's no longer in office; she's no longer a governor. If the health care debate is any indication, she doesn't need the platform of being governor to get media coverage and get her own message out..

Hate Sarah Palin as much as you please. She's not going anywhere, folks. And she may be more successful than either detractors or supporters might have ever guessed.

This warning will not, of course, cause the Left to change tactics. Leftists will continue to attack Sarah Palin's character, her intelligence and her family. Such attacks are a major turn-off for independents and the more rational of Democrats, two demographic groups whose support for the agenda of the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats is sinking like a stone.

Even if the Left were aware of this fact, it still would not change its tactics. A small minority of thoughtful liberals have been warning their more Palin-deranged fellows for the better part of a year not to underestimate Sarahcuda. But it is hard-wired in the Leftist mind to keep repeating the same mistakes that were made yesterday, last month and 35 years ago. In a paraphrase of Pogo wisdom, The Left has met the enemy, and it is them.

- JP