Palin' Around

When Palin was first announced, Marc Ambinder posted a C-SPAN interview (clip below) with her from this past February at the Winter NGA. She seems like a completely different person when you compare it with footage of her today. She really would have had great prospects in '12 or '16 had she not been so polarizing over the past seven weeks. Wait for Bush fatigue to subside, hire the future generation of Roves, and go to work. Easy game. She's so innocent in her ignorance that it's really hard not to like her. It's just that, as with the multiple McCains, she's been tarred by so many different brushes (be it by her handlers, a flailing narrative, or the investigative journalism of the MSM) that it's hard to know who Palin really is. Reform governor. Energy czar. Hot babe. Special needs crusader. Pitbull! Idiot (Gibson). Idiot (Couric). McCarthyite. Hot babe, to the tune of $150K.

Whereas Obama is just a black nerd who cavorts with a terrorist every now and then.