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Can it really be that the hard right wing of the Republican Party has come to its senses regarding a former half-term Alaska governor who for the past half-dozen years or so has been its darling?<\/p>\n

Sarah Palin stood before the Iowa Freedom Summit and delivered what can only be described as a rhetorical goulash of blather.<\/p>\n

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It didn’t play well in Peoria, let alone in GOP strategists’ living rooms.<\/p>\n

Her TelePrompter, loaded with prepared remarks, went pffftt. <\/em>Left to her devices, Palin stammered her way through a bizarre litany of nonsensical sentences.<\/p>\n

As the Washington Post described it: “Her address was a 31 1\/2-minute roller coaster ride of cliches, non sequiturs and warmed-over grievances. One line that stood out: ‘GOP leaders, by the way, you know, \u2018The Man,\u2019 can only ride ya when your back is bent. So strengthen it. Then The Man can\u2019t ride ya.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

The Post reports that the critiques from those who heard Palin were harsh and unforgiving.<\/p>\n

Darn! I was hoping she’d make a go of it, that her “serious” consideration of a White House campaign in 2016 would turn into the real thing.<\/p>\n

Silly me. I guess I had forgotten — if only for a moment or two — about how miserable a campaigner she turned out to be when Sen. John McCain selected her as his vice-presidential running mate in the 2008 White House campaign. Or that she’d gotten twisted up in that goofy reality TV show. Or that she’s making a lot of money as a Fox News “contributor”; her precise contribution<\/em> to Fox remains something of a mystery.<\/p>\n

I suppose there’s some other stuff to mention, but I’ll just let it lie.<\/p>\n

With that, I’ll bid adieu to Sarah Palin. It was nice while it lasted.<\/p>\n

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