Sarah Palin industry faces depression - Ben Smith

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65359.html

What's left to say about the American Rorschach Test? Obviously plenty because it should never be swept under the rug that such a dangerously under qualified person got near the levers of power. The Republican party should not get off so easily either. They elevated her, no matter how reluctantly, and in doing so legitimized what she stood for: pure identity politics absent even the pretension that she was capable.

I do not say good riddance. I wanted her to run. She is elusive and aggressive at the same time and I wanted her netted and cornered, forced to stammer through a debate and hold her own against people who were serious.

We will never have that opportunity now, as the con has moved on to be with her followers, those desperate to be conned anyway. She strung us out for months, years, smiling all the way to the bank.

But, whatever. She's done for as far as being taken serious for office. The sliver of the populace that adores her has lost the sliver that could stand her and she now counts even less of the gullible as her base. She's not disappearing, but her power has waned immeasurably as her threat is no longer real.