Palin's on a pale horse... watching her own political death

[Essene]

People in the Mccain campaign suddenly talking details and dirt about Palin being a "rogue" and a "diva" is not an accident. Nor are these people "supporters" in her camp. A narrative is being crafted which tells a story about how Mccain was forced to pick her and then how she basically sunk the ship.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/25/mccain-aide-palin-going-rogue
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/27/081027fa_fact_mayer

She's being lead to the gallows.

I'll wager that the following happens before Nov 4th:

• Conservatives find a way to increasingly cover the emerging scandals in alaska without making it look like they are after her (i.e. trooper-gate, house-gate, pipeline-gate, airplane-gate, no taxes-gate, travel expense-gate, etc). CNN, NYTimes, Politico will increasingly obtain "leaks."
  
  
• This story of her being a rogue force in the Campaign will grow and grow. She may even be represented BY CONSERVATIVES as a fringe religious radical, out of step with mainstream conservative thinking. We'll see.
  
  
• She will increasingly get Press access and continue to dig her own grave, perhaps taking some shots at the Campaign herself (which will just reinforce the image that she's a rogue diva).
  
  
• A major conservative will do a heavy hit job on Todd Palin in the last few days, including emphasis on how he wasnt a registered Republican and once had loyalty to a secessionist group backed by Iran.
  
  
• By Nov 4th she will be the main excuse for for the GOP

I would bet we'll even see somebody will claim she lied during the vetting process or otherwise deceived the Mccain Campaign. Nobody will be able to remove the stain on Mccain, but they can villainize her.

Do i feel sorry for her? No.

We should reject this excuse. We should also reject the notion that Obama didn't simply win it based on ideas and character.

[WinkyDink]

1. The other pincer has been: Voters just like O's "eloquence" during this "unusual time", this

"perfect storm."
It's SOP that the media are "Liberal" and therefore "not telling us anything about him."

[Window]

2. I don't see how that campaign will last another week.

[tosh]

3. I've been predicting that she will just fade away, or if she doesn't,

she will cause a great divide in the party.

The New Yorker piece was well worth reading. It answered the questions I've had about how she'd been chosen.

[Essene]

4. I think the divide was already there...

It's all our war in the GOP and has been for a while, in my view.

So many GOPrs have jumped ship. Many more have openly revolted.

Going back to 2006, there's been a struggle with identify and direction for the party. The social conservatives and religious-right have effectively hijacked the party in the last 12 years... and a lot of fiscal conservatives have had enough.

Let's keep in mind just how close we came to seeing a Mike Bloomberg and Chuck Hagel independent ticket.

She's lost all credibility at the national level, but there will be a fight over whether the "base" is better represented by the social conservatives or by the more moderate old-school Reagan era fiscal conservatives. Obviously there is some overlap, but i think David Brooks really threw the gauntlet down when he said Palin represented an anti-intellectual cancer in the party.