Palin's sudden emergence injected a near-lethal overdose of virulent superficiality to a familiar derangement syndrome afflicting our body politic. Unlike the hate that fueled Bush Derangement Disorder (which the other side has transferred over to Obama), the Palin strain was a hybrid; the spawn of a volcanic eruption of delusional love for the vacuous "Thriller from Wasilla." That stuporous reaction, engendered primarily by the Tea Party, pulsated a wave of cognitive dissonance that rattled the foundation of electoral support that in 2004, enabled Republicans to win a presidential race that it perhaps should have lost. The result is that by 2012, Republicans wound up losing an arguably winnable contest.
As I noted in a November, 2008 article published in OpEd News, rather than being recognized as something wicked this way comes, the GOP base's "eyes wide shut" embrace of the conniving Palin in the immediate aftermath of McCain's defeat illustrated the potential for Palin and others like her to lead the GOP straight down the road to irrelevant-political-relic status. Back then I wrote :
Indeed just days outside of the election, Palin was spinning away from McCain while simultaneously refusing to rule out a Senate run in 2010, or a go for the presidential gold in 2012, reasoning that it would be "crazy to close a door" of potential opportunity prematurely.
Do I wish (her) luck? You betcha!
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