Hear! Hear!

Major Party Honors

For Sarah Palin ?

A major political party may be honoring former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, according to uninformed party outsiders who requested anonymity. The revelations came in an after-meeting apologue with cocktails among the party’s national committee.

“She’s done so much for us!” said one character, who added “and she hasn’t asked us for one dime for doing it!”

Palin is currently on what is being billed as a book tour for her memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” Some political analysts have suggested the tour is less about selling books than about keeping her political image fresh, but she’s drawing enthusiastic crowds and the book is ranking at the top of Amazon.com’s bestseller list.

Palin’s love/hate relationship with the national media continues with a dustup over a Newsweek cover photo of her in super-tight-and-short running gear and a spate of snide reporting about her confusing Iraq and Iran.

“That’s just what makes her so valuable to the party!” was the explanation offered by another commenting pol. “She’s doing things that no other politician out there would dream of doing and she’s doing them consistently.”

Palin was Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain’s surprise pick for the veep slot in the 2008 presidential campaign. She brought a style and command of both the facts and issues seldom seen on the national political stage.  Less than six month after the inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation’s 44^th President, Palin announced her resignation as Alaska’s governor.

“Former Gov. Palin and the crowds she draws are exactly the sort of thing we need to energize our base and draw the contrasts between us and them,” one party workhorse explained. “She’s really helping voters to understand the difference between what we offer and what the other side is pitching.”

Palin’s family life has been the subject of some media coverage since her unwed daughter Bristol delivered a baby boy and the expected marriage to the baby’s father, Levi Johnston, got sidetracked. Johnston, meanwhile, has posed for Playgirl.

“Those are just real-life, everyday issues the voters she attracts deal with in their own families and the contrast Gov. Palin makes with the way others handle those things has been a major asset for our party’s reach-out efforts,” a senior party official beamed.

Others were no less effusive in their praise of Palin, who is considered by many to be positioning herself for a 2012 run at the White House, talk she coyly turns. But there was no coyness in this meeting as the party elders filled their glasses and the most senior among them rose and said “Ladies and gentlemen, to Sarah Palin and her future!”

“Hear! Hear!” chorused the members of the Democratic National Committee.

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