Recognizing the strewn wreckage that is left of Sarah Palin's once promising political career.

Courtesy of The Voice:  

Claiming she did not want to be part of the “political blood sport” that is Alaska and pleading for the understanding of the constituents she was abandoning, she decided she liked the spotlight of the national stage and jumped ship. 

That moment was the quintessential branding of a candidate. She was already seen as a rank amateur in the scope of national politics, a walking hair-do posing as a serious candidate and an overall dim bulb who could not keep her own foot out of her own mouth. 

Add the fact she did not want to finish out her first term in high office under the cloud of being a “lame duck,” saying “that’s not how I am wired,” she added quitter to her already featherweight resume. 

Rebranding yourself in politics is a feat as attainable as climbing Mt. Everest with only a scarf and gloves to protect you from the elements. Changing a political image is possible but is a glacial process that most do not have the patience or the fortitude for simply based on their career of choice. 

Lay back, stay out of the headlines, pick your spots carefully, make a speech or two and work behind the scenes to change a tarnished image is just the START of what you need to do to change your brand in American politics. 

Sarah Palin was the antithesis of that. (Gee, ya think?)


She continued to put her foot in her mouth, go on ego driven, useless bus tours, string her supporters along about a Presidential run, all the while eagerly taking their money and jumped on every bandwagon that rolled in front of her. 

Palin joined the ranks of punditry at Fox News, fired up a reality show and never shut her mouth. 

She went from Tea Party darling to blabbering mouthpiece. She went from possible Republican stalwart to being a joke in her own party. She went from politician to pseudo-celebrity in the span of less than five years. 

Palin squandered her chance and breezed past her window of opportunity to even make a half-hearted showing in a primary or two in the 2012 election. Now the GOP will roll out a field in 2016 that she will get trampled by if she even thought of campaigning in New Hampshire. 

She has morphed into a caricature and a rock thrower with zero credibility outside of the few “mama bear” zealots who still think she is viable in the political arena. She is a sideshow of her own creation. 

Overlooking the “we’ve obviously got to stand with our North Korean allies” and “I can see Russia from my backyard” nuggets of insight from the former governor, a serious look at her tactics and actions over the past five years show an egotist and a pretender.

The author of this editorial, Matthew Fahr, goes on to state that Palin has one last chance for a political resurgence, and that would entail winning Begich's Senate seat in Alaska.

I am happy to inform Mr. Fahr that if THAT is her only hope, and I would agree that it undoubtedly is, then she has NO hope whatsoever, because Alaskans would rather rather shoot grizzly bear repellent directly into their eyes before EVER letting that crazed lunatic represent them ever again.

Living up here may indicate to some that we are suckers for punishment, but even WE are not that  masochistic!

Other than that I found myself in total agreement with every thing that he said.