TurquoiseB wrote: > I said this way back when, the *first* time that > Sarah Palin became a nonentity, but it's worth > saying again because she refuses to stay one. > > I don't think that even *she* is stupid enough > to believe that she could be elected President. > Besides, being President involves actual *work*, > and Sarah Palin's record indicates that she > really doesn't *like* work. She has been described > even by her *friends* as "phoning in" her work as > Governor. She quit her first gig as a city council- > woman, quit her gig on the Alaska Oil and Gas > Conservation Commission, and now she's quit as > governor. The woman has an absolute *aversion* > to work. > "Psychological projection (or projection bias) is when a person's personal attributes, thoughts, and/or emotions are ascribed onto another person or people."
Psychological projection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection > What she *likes* is being on camera, being the > center of attention, and being able to talk to a > captive audience. So that's my bet for what she'll > wind up doing. She'll become a TV talk show host / > televangelist. > > After all, she was already on the evangelist path > (about to become a member of her Pentecostalist > Church's traveling missionaries or "commission > students) when she got herself knocked up and got > sidetracked into her first shot at being a nonentity. > > Besides, as evidenced by all the talk-show hosts > who get away with being drug addicts and idiots, > and all the TV preachers who get away with even > more, it's the perfect gig for Sarah because > *there is no accountability*. She believes that > she can get away with pretty much anything if > she just smiles pretty for the camera and runs > her "Miss Congeniality" number and talks about > Jeeeezus enough. And the ongoing success of the > TV talk show hosts and TV preachers indicates > that she may be right about this. > > Mark my words...politics is *not* in Sarah Palin's > future. It's not flashy enough for her, and it > involves actual work. She's going to take the same > route that other lazy, unintelligent slackers like > Rush Limbaugh have taken in the past. > > And she'll be a ratings goddess when she does, > because even those who despise her will watch her. > For them it'll be like watching a train wreck, but > they'll still be watching, their eyeballs glued > to the screen. And that's all that's necessary > to get ratings. >