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Palin is Failin
Maybe it was the SNL appearance that finally did in Sarah Palin. The VP nominee for the republican party finally appeared on the satire show next to the human caricature played by Tina Fey and was found wanting. Viewers quickly realized that Tina Fey was a better Sarah Palin than Sarah Palin. Time will tell, but it may be that the SNL appeance broke the spell that Caribou Barbie had on the nation. The truth is Sarah Palin was already sledding rapidly downhill. Polls have shown the Alaskan governor is at last clearly seen by voters as being far too inexperienced for the VP and is now among the most unpopular running mates in history. The brilliant creation of a conservative cupie doll for the GOP vice president has proven to be, like most of the McCain campaign, lacking in substance, superficial, nothing but window dressing.

And speaking of window dressing: the revelation that republican National Comittee allocated $150,000 dollars to outfit Sarah Palin and her daughters with clothes from Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy’s won’t go down well as the voting public struggles to swallow the idea of Palin's candidacy and her self-created persona as a small town, ethically enhanced reformer. Will the wanna-be empress’ new clothes be the final straw in Sarah Palin’s fairy tale?

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