‘Attention deficit’ may lead to Palin return
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Cue the laugh track.
Sarah Palin, America’s queen of unintentional political hilarity, might be getting the itch to seek public office again.
Palin told Sean Hannity on his radio program that she’s considering a run next year for the U.S. Senate seat in Alaska currently held by Democrat Mark Begich, who she said “has got to be replaced.”
Said Palin, according to a report on the Atlantic Wire website, “I’ve considered it because people have requested me considering it, but I’m still waiting to see what the lineup will be and hoping that, there again, there will be some new blood, new energy, not just kind of picking from the same old politicians in the state.”
We have to presume that Palin, somehow, doesn’t consider herself one of the “same old politicians” in Alaska. Perhaps she considers herself a fresh option since she didn’t get a chance to grow stale in the governor’s office, from which she bolted halfway through her term, presumably because the money was much better at Fox News, there was a lot less real work to be done there and the spotlight was much brighter.
Of course, we’ve seen this show before. In 2011, Palin played the will-she-or-won’t-she game in regard to running for the White House. Atlantic notes that when Palin finally announced she would not seek the GOP presidential nomination, she trotted out the old “spend more time with the family” reasoning.
As far as we know, she still has a family. Are they less important now?
“I think any American with a heart for service has to always have in the back of their mind that they would do anything, everything that they could, to help the cause, even if it’s something that doesn’t look necessarily appealing.”
Like finishing out a term in the governor’s office?
Palin has been a clown since she burst upon the scene as John McCain’s running mate in 2008, but no one can deny her incredible skill at self-promotion.
We probably should just resign ourselves to the fact that this bad penny will keep popping up every time she sees the stage lights begin to dim.