I'm less interested in the murky, paranormal state of Sarah Palin's marriage than I am in flighty impetuosities such as flaking out of a high-profile speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on the flimsiest of insultingly lame excuses. Each loudly heralded Palin appearance becomes a tale of suspense, it being very tough to nail down her commitment to attend even after the event has been announced. I hope Palin isn't intent on following the wayward path of George "No Show" Jones, because, unlike George Jones, her voice doesn't have the soulful depths to justify a bare stage--she can only toy so many times with her fans' rabid anticipation.
Perhaps Palin's pullout from the Reagan Library event is part of a larger disappearing act to re-sculpt her image and reposition her as a sparkly media star. "Here’s my take on the timetable," writes John Gorman.
We won’t see or hear much from Sarah Palin until her book comes out next spring.
While her memoirs are being rewritten - she’ll be remade and remodeled into Sarah Palin, media princess by the industry’s best image consultants and talent coaches (sorry, I’m not available for this one).
[There’s no lack of image consultants and groomers. Even those negative Palin nicknames - Sarah Barracuda and Caribou Barbie - can be transformed into terms of endearment.
A cleaned-up, sexy-but-not-too-sexy librarian, ready-for-media Sarah could easily pull off a one-two - radio and television...]
The new, improved Sarah will reemerge to make the publicity rounds to pitch her memoirs. If her handlers pull off the remake/remodel, she’ll parlay her appearances into a daily full-time radio talk show for Clear - or whatever they're called by then - and as a commentator on - come on, what else - Fox News.
Plausible. But if that's the half-crocked plan under consideration Camp Palin, it may be a bit counterproductive to have your lawyer threatening to serve a blogger with a summons while kindergarten is in session. As stealth tactics go, that's not very stealthy.
