So....What Makes Sarah Palin So Newsworthy?

Two FaceBook comments on my piece about Governor Palin's superb putdown of Obama's insulting her voicing her opinions on his absurd nuclear policies from a couple of long time Joshua's Army members raise an interesting question:

PoliticalCynic:"Sarah is so digging her own grave. Trying to grab headlines will back fire."

Christian Atheist:""Trying to grab..."? Some people are actually newsworthy.
Unlike we blathering Facebook nonentities. e.g. Who really cares what I think?"


So..what is it that makes Sarah Palin so newsworthy?

By any normal standards, she shouldn't be. She's the failed VP candidate on a losing ticket, which in itself is normally a ticket to oblivion. Not only that,but she's the ex-governor of a small state that most of the elite media types and leftist politicos think of as the ultimate in disposable flyover country.

So why does she still generate headlines almost effortlessly? Why is she still arguably the hottest political ticket in America?

The way I see it, there are a number of reasons, some of which she was born with or acquired on her own and some that were given to her, believe it or not, by her worst enemies.

For starters, there's Sarah Palin's ninja political skills and her use of language.

Think about this..in Sarah Palin, we have someone who a year ago was a ridiculed figure, the failed vice-presidential candidate of one of the most inept and poorly run presidential campaigns in memory. Normally, one would have expected her to fade away like most losing ex-running mates into respectable anonymity. With your average losing VP candidate, most people scarcely remember their names a year later.

Yet in Sarah Palin, we have someone who has shown the political mojo to transcend this and become arguably the most watched and famous political figure in the entire country.

That should give the astute observer a clue that we're not simply talking about some semi-literate chillbilly with a pretty face and a few nifty slogans.

Although when she does adopt a slogan, notice how well she uses the language - death panels for instance, the all-too-accurate phrase that perfectly defined the contempt for human life and Orwellian nature of of ObamaCare and stuck to the debate like superglue. Was there a better catch phrase uttered that crystallized the inhumane, bureaucratic nature of ObamaCare?

Aside from the fact that she was entirely correct about those 'death panels' and what they symbolized, her framing the debate in that matter turned the whole thing around, almost killed ObamaCare and provided her and her GOP compadres with a flagship issue for the midterms and beyond.

She's one of the most natural politicians of our age, with an inborn gift for communication that resonates with her fellow Americans. And even with all the fame and fortune that's come her way, she still manages to come across somehow like a normal, everyday person, like someone you'd meet in the supermarket trying to decide whether steak would fit in the budget this week...albeit in a somewhat more polished version nowadays.

Remember, it was Sarah Palin who first perceived the vast amount of discontent with the status quo among her fellow Americans with business as usual as done in Washington that later coalesced into the Tea Party Movement. And she locked on to that energy like...well a barracuda. Even better, she was smart enough to do it in a way that preserved her independence and to do it outside the GOP establishment.

Even more potent is the gifts she's been given by her worst enemies.

From the minute she accepted the Republican nomination, the Obama Administration and the Angry Left mobilized every operative, media ally and dirty trick they could muster to not only destroy her politically but to destroy her and her family personally.

From massive media attacks, bogus ethics complaints back in Alaska and an organized attempt to bankrupt the Palin family orchestrated from the White House to heavily edited TV interviews from Democrat shills like Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson to a media blitz focusing on her pregnant daughter and her baby son Trigg and foul-mouthed attacks by 'comedians' like Sarah Bernhard and David Letterman, nothing was considered out of bounds for a woman who strayed off the Left's reservation and who actually chose to give birth to a Down's Syndrome child instead of simply vacuuming the kid into oblivion.

Even Candidate Obama got into the actions..remember his 'lipstick on a pig' trash talking after Palin's convention speech?

And all this had a curious effect.

Most Americans generally don't approve of bullying woman or their children, even in the political arena. At heart, we are still a culture that protects women and children.

As I wrote at the time, trashing Sarah Palin and her family in this over the top fashion and driving her from office was the worst mistake the Left ever made. Not only did it engender some sympathy from a lot of Americans who perceived it as unfair, it freed Governor Palin up to write her book and become a national force.

Targeting her crystallized the opposition to Obama around her and simply made her an even bigger star than she already was, because people viscerally perceived how frightened the Left is of this woman simply by the obscene and personal hatred they kept throwing at her and her family.

And the more they throw, the bigger audience Sarah Palin gets, the broader her smile and the more headlines she generates.

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