Sarah Palin “would have been nuts” to run for the 2012 Republican nomination, said CBS pundit Brian Montopoli. A curious observation, since the Tea Party favorite is recognizably far from well-grounded, mentally.So, why didn’t she run?
“Well, as most hockey moms and she-bears eventually discover, the campaign trail is a long and winding road,” said social editor Kinsey Williams, of the Ames, Iowa WorldView.”It’s exhausting. You;ve got your bus, and its filled with campaign spokesmen and spin managers and other close associates, your spouse or whomever. And at first it’s more or less neat and feels like an ‘adventure home’. But then the aisles begin to clog up with microwave burrito wrappers and homeless socks and you can’t remember what state you’re in, and you just can’t take any more of it. You want out.”
And her status would also be called into question. Right now, according to political analyst Lysle Overbay (no relation the the ballplayer Lyle Overbay) she stands as one of “America’s premiere political fruitcake figures.” But that only gives her so many swats at the apple. If she spends them all on an admittedly futile pursuit of the presidency, it would be difficult to take her seriously as a fruitcake again.
“She has every credential to assume the mantle worn for so many years by Eugene V. Debs and Harold Stassen,” said Overbay. “Even Eugene McCarthy, though he was only around for what, one or two elections.”
Though only 48 hours have passed since her withdrawal was announced, Palin has already become somewhat of a ‘Has-been’. Palin memorabilia, such as action dolls, which had been going for $6 – $7 dollars on Ebay, now fetch as much as $11. Replica faux-fashion accessories, stoles, handbags and whatever – have as much as doubled in price. That kitchenware left on the portch of her new home outside Phoenix and scorched by the passing wildfire, can only be purchased through a private brokerage, CF Clermont & Sons, of Tucson. Curiously, there has been no action on her Alaskan governmental papers.