Real conservatives have pretty much gotten over their puppy love for Sarah Palin.

Recently somebody e-mailed me and was upset because I had said earlier that when Sarah Palin announced her intention to run for President there would be people coming out of the woodwork to make sure that did not happen, and she had not yet seen any evidence of that taking place.

So for any of you who may have been missing the GOP blowback on Sarah Palin here are a few examples.

On ABC's "This Week" George will looks like he just smelled something rotten when asked about Palin's run for President.



Mona Charen, whose right wing credibility certainly cannot be questioned due to the fact she wrote the aggressively titled "Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First", writes on Townhall.com the following:

Palin has many strengths. I admire her fortitude and her commitment to principle. Her capacity to connect with a crowd is something most politicians can only dream of. I will always remember her 2008 convention speech as a rollicking star turn. She would be terrific as a talk-show host -- the new Oprah.

But as a presidential candidate? Someone to convince critical independent voters that Republicans can govern successfully? Absolutely not.

Perhaps the most famous conservative so far to trash Palin in the media was Karl Rove:

“With all due candour, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office’,” Mr Rove told The Daily Telegraph in an interview.

While the Weekly Standard, hardly a bastion of liberalism, had this to say about Palin's "completely lacking in reality" reality show:

On the other hand, her show is very similar to other reality-television fare, in that there are plenty of artificially constructed moments. The eldest Palin daughter—Dancing with the Stars contestant Bristol—is taken to a shooting range so that Sarah can “remind Bristol what it’s like to pull the trigger.” But it’s fairly obvious when Bristol asks if the recoil is going to hurt and mistakes a clay pigeon for a mosquito that the reason she needs “reminding” is because she’s rarely if ever pulled a trigger at all. Likewise, there are gobs of forced dialogue in order to set up Palin’s bumper-sticker lines (she tells Bristol, with the -subtlety of a skywriter, “Don’t retreat, just reload”). She also repeatedly makes unlikely pronouncements, such as that Denali National Park is 9,400 square miles while New Hampshire is only 9,200 square miles, sounding less like Sarah Barracuda than Sarah Wikipedia.

Which leads to this summation at the end.

But that’s what going rogue is all about. Letting it fly. Following your gut. Which has made Sarah Palin wealthy, and intensely discussed, and now has secured her a spot in the Reality TV Star pantheon. And good for Palin if she’s happy following her gut.

Though there’s no compelling reason to suggest the rest of us should tag along behind.

So obviously the conservatives with any intelligence are already openly mocking the idea of Sarah Palin ever winning their party's nomination.  And without the support of competent professionals who really know what it takes to run a successful political campaign the Grizzled Mama is shit out of a luck.

Let's face it, the Teabaggers might be able to draw substantial media attention by gathering in the Washington Mall with their ridiculously misspelled signs, but is that the brain trust which can put together a substantial political platform? Or are there any members of that group of misfits who could write a speech that does not indicate to America that Sarah Palin's elevator does not quite make to the top floor?

No Palin needs to have seasoned professionals willing to spend their time working with a person that almost everybody agrees does NOT take direction well, and who seems almost incapable of absorbing information that does not fall in line with her preconceived notions of reality.

Who is chomping at the bit to take on that job?

Now of course that leads to the next question, which is are the people of Alaska starting to rise up and do their civic duty to stop this lunatic.  And the answer to that is yes, and no.

Yes there have been a few more that have stepped forward and told their stories, but there have also been others who promised that when there was no question she would run they would start talking, who have been irritatingly silent.  And still others who the Palins have gone after so aggressively that they just clammed up.

However I am very aware that some of the books being written contain some very juicy and potentially devastating bits of information about Sister Sarah that will undoubtedly make her unelectable.  Her only defense is to defame the authors, as you have seen her attempt to do with Joe McGinniss, but the problem is that when enough books, and magazine articles, report similarly damaging information it becomes impossible to question the integrity of ALL of them.  Though with her use of the term "Lamestream media" the Grizzled Mama is certainly giving it "the old (five) college try."

Will Sarah run in 2012?  She has already started.  Does she have a chance?  Here let's allow Vice President Biden answer that question for us.