Memo to Stephen Stromberg: That's Thunder, Not Blunder

From Big Lizards (which has, btw, one of the coolest header banners in all of blogdom):

In response to Palin's endorsement (and the $116,000+ in cash it helped raise for Mr. Hoffman), a peevish blogger at the Washington Post, Stephen Stromberg, has declared it "Sarah Palin's latest blunder." He "reasons" that she will only alienate the GOP establishment and disrupt their vital mission of moving the Republican Party further to the left, so that they can finally win... not that such a pyrrhic victory would matter:

If Hoffman -- somehow -- wins with her help, she will have alienated a GOP establishment desperate to reconstruct past majority coalitions that included moderates, both because she will have hurt their cause and because they will fear her influence among true believers. In return, she might continue to appeal to some far-right primary voters in 2012, but that only gets you so far (a possible victory in Iowa, owing to the heavy social conservative vote in the caucuses there, and perhaps respectable showings in the South). In other words, in this best-case scenario, she will have begun to lay the groundwork to be the Mike Huckabee of 2012. Except in 2012, she will probably be running against, well, Mike Huckabee....

More than anything, though, Palin’s endorsement probably makes an Owens victory more likely. That would not just be a humiliation for Palin. It would be a notable loss for her party as it is trying to shake off years of electoral debacle.

Heh. I always love it when liberal Democrats give Republicans and conservatives helpful advice on getting our mojo back. (For further amusement, the blog Stromboli, or whatever his name is, writes for is titled "PostPartisan"!)

I suspect that if Palin draws the ire of liberals by endorsing Hoffman, she's on the right track.

We agree with our Big Lacertilian colleagues. Liberals are always, it seems, trying to give Republicans advice. You know that the left only has the GOP's best interest at heart. And if you believe that, I can get you a good deal on some Chrysler stock to fill out your portfolio...

Palin is right on target, like a B-24 Liberator bomber taking flack. Mr. Stromberg has apparently been given some bad information. He has heard Sarah Palin's thunder and is trying to pass it off as blunder. We refer him to our recent post where we pointed out:

Since her name first came to national attention, those who know Sarah Palin well -- both friend and foe alike -- have warned that her opponents who underestimate her do so at their own peril. Those who have tried to destroy her and have failed should have listened.

- JP