Baked Alaskan: Stick a Fork in Sarah Palin. She’s Done

I hope one can still use cooking metaphors in this new age of low-key rhetoric, right? Anyway, this has been another Bad Week for Palin Inc. She’s been traduced this week and the statement she’s released today, while typically punchy, isn’t likely to change anyone’s opinion. Nevertheless, the fall-out from the Tucson shootings has damaged the erstwhile Governor and added weight to the sense, fair or not, that nominating her may be more trouble than it’s worth. I think her prospects of winning the Republican nomination have been sliding quietly for some time (whatever the polls say) and this week’s events do nothing to change that. Among the reasons why I think she’s done:

1. Television is not enough. Her appearances on Fox and her Alaska-themed reality show are grand ways of maintaining her public profile. Unfortunately neither helps her political ambitions; indeed they may prove counter-productive. It’s good for Brand Palin as a commercial enterprise; bad for Palin the Politician.