Sarah Palin's Paul Revere Meets Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert jumped on the story of Sarah Palin's fuzzy history last night.  Her crazy version of Paul Revere as a gun toting Benedict Arnold is shown to be entirely possible by Mr. Colbert.  While she has insisted that she was not wrong Stephen comes through and demonstrates that Paul Revere could have done just what Sarah Palin said.

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Sarah Palin's Paul Revere: Batshit Crazy

Over the weekend, our favorite half governor Sarah Palin severely botched the story of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride.   She didn't get the actual story or even the poem's story right.  Here is what she said, verbatim:

He who warned the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.

The only things she got right were: 1.  There was a man named Paul Revere.  2.  There was a horse involved.  According to her, Paul Revere basically did a Revolutionary War style drive by on New England.  He went all Yosemite Sam on a sleeping populace and oh by the way, warned the wrong side. 

Pictured: Paul "Benedict Arnold" Revere

Now, technically they were ALL British at that time, but that's giving her way too much credit considering she thinks the Revolutionary War was about gun control and security.  There were no efforts to put bans on assault rifles and your average hand gun was the size of loaf of bread.  As far as security, the British military was the baddest force on the planet at that point in time.  9/11 wasn't going to happen for another 225 years.  People's biggest security problem was bad drinking water.


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 All this came from a "gotcha question" which was something to the effect of "what have you seen today and where are you headed?"  But don't fret, in true Palin fashion, she has already insisted that she was right. 

Sarah Palin Resigns, Butchers Public Speaking...

Well, last Sunday, Sarah Palin has quit.  She gave a rambling, disjointed speech as a farewell to the people of Alaska.  She attacked the media, Hollywood, and her opponents.  The speech was so bad that Vanity Fair decided to copy edit it.  You can see the results here.  They are bad.  Very bad.  Red ink is everywhere and they even did fact checking.

You Leave for Two Weeks and So Much Happens....

First, before Puggling went on vacation Michael Jackson died and then while we were mourning our loss, Sarah Palin up and resigns from her post as governor of Alaska.  She must have been a personal friend of MJ and is now using this time to reflect on life and loss.

We here are not interested in necessarily what Ms. Palin's motives were, however we are more interested in what this means to the 2012 Presidential race.  While according to a Gallup poll, a good many Americans still see a political future for her.  However, the ethics complaints, the spat with David Letterman (while it appeared at the time that he lost this battle, he may have won the war) and the Baby Daddy drama with Levi Johnston have taken away from her appearance as a serious political entity. 

The Palin Issue: Round 2

Sarah Palin is a polarizing person. Many Americans know this. However, she appears not to. She has recently set up a political action committee, SarahPAC, in an apparent move towards presidential candidacy in 2012. In a USA Today/Gallup poll right after the election (the latest data we could find), Sarah Palin had an 83% favorable rating from Republicans, while nearly the same unfavorable from Democrats. While this may not be surprising to many, it is the number of independents which make up the real difference. Independents held her unfavorable by a margin of 48% to 44%, outside the margin of error.

Some could argue that her conduct since has not helped her image. The Thanksgiving interview (where she was filmed with turkeys being beheaded behind her), the Levi Johnston debacle (see Banks, Tyra) and her recent rambling appearance at an Evansville, Indiana right to life group have all hurt her. While many Americans can reinvent themselves (Joe Biden got in big trouble for plagiarizing a stump speech of a member of parliament a couple decades ago), four years is probably not enough time for Palin. Her negatives were her lack of experience, lack of command of facts and her right wing stances. And don't forget the Katie Couric interview, perhaps one of the most damaging interviews in political history. It will not disappear any time soon. All of these alienate the middle, which is where elections are won and lost. She will appear formidable in the Republican primary where appealing to the extremes of the party gain you votes (see this article over at Politico.com). Look for Palin to do well out of the gates in the 2012 contest, but fade quickly in the finish where the middle matters.