There's more fallout this morning from Sarah Palin's bizarre speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday. On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough compared this speech to her triumphant one at the Republican National Convention in 2008, saying "It's a tragedy. We will let history decide how she got from that point to this point."
Nicole Wallace, who was one of Palin's key aides during the 2008 campaign, said "This is who she is. This, to me, is evidence that she has finally shed every one of those annoying handlers."
As noted in previous posts, she's really not running for anything and she's absolutely not interested in governing. As long as she claims to be "seriously thinking" about running, however, as long as she appears to be a serious part of the political process, she can continue to solicit contributions from her remaining supporters, and unbelievably, some of them continue to send her money. Presumably that was the goal with this speech and that brings me to the question in the title of this post.
What was Sarah Palin thinking? Why on earth would she stand in front of the national press and C-SPAN's cameras and deliver this speech? Is she really so removed from reality and so convinced of her own adorableness that she thought delivering this speech was going to enhance her brand? (Remember, this wasn't extemporaneous. The speech was written in advance.)
I've always thought Sarah Palin was a blithering idiot, but I also really, really don't like her and I'm aware that I was possibly being overly critical of someone whose ideology I don't share. Based on her performance on Saturday, however, maybe I wasn't so far off.
One more thing, and not for the first time. What does John McCain think now?
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