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.
>


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