Sarah Palin’s new, flashy, fisheye lens-shot campaign video shows just how much the former Governor loves the lame stream media attention. It’s all Sarah, all the time, 24/7 lame stream media news coverage with Palin front and center.
No real content, just cool-sounding sound bites, just like Palin herself: no real content, just cool-sounding sound bites.
CBS News says Palin’s “slick new campaign-style video that very much casts her as a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination.”
Palin has vowed to make a decision on a presidential run by next month. The high production values in her new video, which was produced by her “SarahPAC” political action committee, suggest she very much wants to be seen as seriously considering entering the race.
Palin has not, however, taken the traditional steps to lay the groundwork for a run, such as hiring staff or developing organizational and fundraising networks. And polls suggest she remains a polarizing figure – even among Republicans. In CBS News polling in June, a majority of Republicans said they did not want to see her enter the race.
Politico adds,
The Palin video closes with a promise to return: “Thank you Iowa! See you again September 3rd.â€
Palin is scheduled to keynote a tea party rally near Des Moines that day. And while she said during her last Iowa visit that she’s nearing a decision on a presidential run and doesn’t want to be “perceived as stringing people along,†she continues to milk her indecision for everything it’s worth. She reiterated to Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren at the close of a lengthy interview Thursday night that she’s still contemplating jumping in.
“I think we’re seeing a great awakening of the American public,†Palin says in one of the new video’s clips. “The individual Americans who want the exceptionalism put back into our country.â€
Palin ended an abbreviated leg of her One Nation bus tour last week after visiting Ronald Reagan’s childhood home that followed her trip to Iowa. She said she returned to Alaska for the start of the school year, and as of now, other than the Iowa event, her only public schedule is a rally in Missouri with pundit Glenn Beck on Oct. 7.
But ABC News claims, “It sure looks like she’s running.”
And Daily Kos concludes,
Palin’s entire public existence relies on people thinking she might one day again be a relevant political contender. If people don’t think that, the money stops rolling in, and she may have to start looking for a real job rather than having people pay her to take extended “vacations” in a bus with her name plastered on the side.
Why are we paying attention, you ask? Because it’s just so damn fun, of course! Nothing’s better than watching Palin snipe from the sidelines as she travels around the country staging events to step on every other Republican’s big day. She’s like a photobombing prairie dog of patriotism.
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