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The Secret of Palin's Staying Power

Baradiel Wrote: Jul 10, 2009 6:23 PM
"CharletonHeston
I think he must be carrying a crush for Michele Obama

As is most of America. "

Somehow, I doubt most of America is in love with Chewbakka, especially Mr. Heston.

In October 2005, when President Bush announced his nominee for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Sandra Day O'Connor, conservatives who had been loyal to the administration rose up in perfectly reasonable fury. Harriet Miers was not their idea of a Supreme Court justice. She was, they noted, intellectually undistinguished, ill-qualified for the job, lacking impeccable conservative credentials and inept in handling basic constitutional questions.

All those things, of course, could also have been said about Sarah Palin. But just as quickly and vigorously as conservatives rejected Miers, they embraced Palin. Even after her bungling performance in the...

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