Laugh all you want, but ...

Joe McGinniss says laugh all you want about Sarah Palin. But "let’s face facts: however we feel about her, Sarah remains the biggest elephant in the GOP 2012 tent. ... Sarah will do as Sarah wants to do. And she has the ersatz charisma and political acumen to make it matter. Within 24 hours of the eight-candidate Iowa GOP debate, Sarah has captured national media attention simply by showing up to eat fried butter on a stick and pet a cow. We may doubt it, we may disdain it, we may denounce it, but here’s the fact: Sarah Palin has clout. She remains a potent force in behalf of all that could destroy our country from within. And smug, snarky, ridicule from the self-satisfied left will only make her stronger. She’s easy to laugh at. I do it myself. But she who laughs last may laugh best. That scares me. I hope it scares you." It does. But McGinniss is seeing goblins in the night, methinks. Moreover, there is one unmovable object standing between Palin and the White House: the great majority of the American people. They are sometimes confused, but they are not stupid.