Palin:The Pit Bull in the China Shop ..why she is dangerous..

[HipChick]

I'm a female that dimissed SP the first few times she opened her mouth. She's returned with no further evidence that whoever is backing her, is no more able to get her to parrot their talking points. Her ghost written facebook utterings make false claims, create fear mongering and are easily de-bunked. Here is a person supposed courts the very things she claims to hates,Hollywood, the media..

the last paragraph in this op-ed sums up perfectly why she is dangerous..

The only person who can derail Palin is Palin herself. Should she not self-destruct, she will doom G.O.P. hopes of a 2012 comeback. But the rest of the country cannot rest easy. .. If Obama can’t tamp down that rage across the political map, Palin will at the very least pave the way for a demagogue with less baggage to pick up her torch.


The book’s biggest surprise is Palin’s wide-eyed infatuation with show-business celebrities. You get nearly as much face time with Tina Fey and the cast of “Saturday Night Live” in “Going Rogue” as you do with John McCain. We learn how happy Palin was to receive calls from Bono and Warren Beatty “to share ideas and insights.” We wade through star-struck lists of campaign cameos by Robert Duvall, Jon Voight (who “blew us away”), Naomi Judd, Gary Sinise and Kelsey Grammer, among many others. Then there are the acknowledgments at the book’s end, where Palin reveals that her intimacy with media stars is such that she can air-kiss them on a first-name basis, from Greta to Laura to Rush.

Equally revealing is the one boldfaced name conspicuously left unmentioned in the book: Levi Johnston, the father of Palin’s grandchild. Though Palin and McCain milked him for photo ops at the Republican convention, he is persona non grata now that he’s taking off his campaign wardrobe. Is Johnston’s fledgling porn career the problem, or is it his public threats to strip bare Palin family secrets as well? “She knows what I got on her” is how he put it. In Palin’s interview with Oprah last week, it was questioning about Johnston, not Katie Couric, that made her nervous.
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Even by the standard of politicians, this is a woman with an outsized ego. Combine that with her performance skills and an insatiable hunger for the limelight, and you can see why she will not stay in Wasilla now that she’s seen 30 Rock. The question journalists repeatedly asked last week — What are Palin’s plans for 2012? — is a red herring. Palin has no obligation to answer it. She is the pit bull in the china shop of American politics, and she can do what she wants, on her own timeline, all the while raking in the big bucks she couldn’t as a sitting governor. No one, least of all her own political party, can control her.



Full article at link
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22rich.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=opinion&adxnnlx=1258870202-3tD0btFQR8VqVqjq1hVlmg

[BlooInBloo]

1. Blithering Idiot might be dangerous...

But it ain't because she's any threat to win nationwide office.

[davidpdx]

2. Maybe, but I wouldn't put it past her getting the nomination

And that is why she is dangerous I think. The more she is in the limelight, the more she stokes the hatred of the right like an animal ready to attack. It is very dangerous. While I don't lose sleep over it, I do wonder how next year is going to play out. If it plays out like I think (big loses and slow economic recovery) then we are in trouble. Hearing some people on here makes me absolutely cringe how willing they are to walk away after 10 months. I believe some of those people are crazy enough to support a person like Palin.

[safeinOhio]

3. Meet the Press, Face the Nation?

How can anyone be in the national spotlight with being on shows like that?

[jasi2006]

4. Is it time for Levi to write a book? nt