Poll: Palin Popular Among Iowa Republicans -- But Unpopular With The State As A Whole

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/wonderwoman.html

A must read on Palin by Andrew Sullivan

Look, there's no real argument but that she is expected to lose badly in a general election in Iowa and everyplace else except Oklahoma, Utah, some of Mountain West. So the issue is not whether Iowans in general are so totally stupid as to support her -- they obviously are not and you don't need to report much about that. The issue is whether she'll likely get nominated by the crazy Talibangelical stub that is the rural Republican Party of Iowa, and her chances are *great* with them. So she goes from victory there, sucks in a tolerable loss in New Hampshire, and then another victory with the ruralist, anti-intellectual curmudgeons of S.Carolina's Republican Party and she's a good ways toward the nomination.

Will she win the election? No more than Glenn Beck will.

I hope the wingnut crazies manage to hijack the GOP and nominate Palin in '12. Then we could at last demonstrate once and for all how marginalized the Palin/Beck segment of society is. Palin fails to appreciate that her celebrity isn't entirely--or even mostly--due to popularity. It's a function of the public love for trainwrecks and controversy. She has no more chance of becoming president than Kate Gosselin or Lindsay Lohan.

The MSM's connivance in the increasingly threadbare pretense that Palin could possibly survive the scrutiny and pressure of a presidential campaign has gone from bemusing to downright laughable. Woman would self-destruct before Super Tuesday and probably before Iowa. She knows it, the MSM knows it, everyone but the twenty six percenters knows it. They're just allowing her to work her scam because she makes for good "content"--simplistic, bumpersticker soundbites and are chock-full of delicious, ratings-enhancing conflicty goodness. She is to politics as Cheetos are to nutrition and pornstars are to actors.