Sarah Palin. Vanity Fair

The October Vanity Fair is out online and the Michael Joseph Gross piece on Sarah Palin has made its appearance. Sarah Palin will survive handily, despite revelations about her quick temper and her parsimonious tipping.

I am sure my confreres in the blogosphere will make what they can of the Sarah Palin article but I could have told them when she walked onto the stage in Dayton in 2008, that Sarah Palin had even then the supreme confidence of a winner. Along with a peremptory view of her prospects. Blame McCain for opening the bottle.

We couldn't get McCain for his temper and we won't get Palin for her's.

I commend the Vanity Fair article, but I think the conclusion is essentially the sentences I have excerpted below.

Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury | Politics | Vanity Fair: "Those who once felt close to Palin have followed her public transformation with a confused range of emotions. The common denominator is sadness. "People who loved Sarah Palin are disappointed," said one woman in Wasilla, "because they found out that Sarah Palin loves Sarah Palin most of all.""

So how will we, who are not wanting to have a female Richard Nixon in the White House, counter someone who can survive the the most meticulous journalistic observation without even breaking stride?

I think we do it with the public record, minus any attempt to find a silver bullet. If Sarah Palin cannot take it and self-destructs, she will do it without respect to anything her enemies can do.

But her record is another thing. Compile it and refine it and circulate it. Statements. Acts. Testimony. Jack Webb, all the way.

Facts.

Stow the vitriol and the clever titles and all the other silly stuff.

I kept such a Sarah Palin page during the Obama run in 2008. It's time to dust it off. Sarah will be tough to oppose if this Vanity Fair account is taken seriously. She may be noxious underneath but that has not stopped others from gaining the White House.

Sarah Palin. Vanity Fair. Temper. Tipping. Ignorant. Filed. Sarah Palin is revealed to be temperamental and parsimonious and even ignorant, but also to be a juggernaut who could go all the way.