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filtherton and asaris already said more or less what i was thinking about this pseudo-question.
i don't consider it a big deal, ace---but i do think it's kinda funny. mostly because, if you sniff the air close to your monitor, maybe you smell a bit of char. that's palin's "outsider" claim after it burned up.
to be clear, if her politics were not so lunatic--as they are in my view--i wouldn't care about this stuff at all---if anything, i would probably find the account of her wending her way through the conservative patronage network a bit reassuring----but the fact is that her politics are nutty and the "outsider" nonsense is of a piece with those nutty politics. and it's conservative political discourse that ties identity to political positions so tightly. so in a sense, watching the outsider persona burn is watching the nutty positions that are wrapped up in it burn a little as well.
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