Hopefully we have heard the last of Sarah Palin. Bursting onto the scene in 2007 as part of John McCain's campaign against Barack Obama, Palin was tRump before most Americans had ever heard of the future president. Proud of her ignorance of history as well as current events, her middle age sex appeal was evidently the only thing she was able to convey. Most pundits have concluded her nomination as McCain's running mate was the death knell of his campaign.
After flaming out in 2008, Palin made the rounds of celebrity TV, eventually resigning as Alaska's governor to host her own short lived reality show. Finally she sank into blessed obscurity only to decide to run for Don Young's seat after he died. A victim of her high negatives in Alaska, she lost under the new ranked choice voting system when the third candidates vote was redistributed between Palin and the democratic candidate. Obviously many voters decided they preferred Mary Peltola to Palin as their second choice to Nick Begich.
Hopefully we have heard the last of Palin, but after a lifetime of underestimating the stupidity of the average American voter I won't write her off just yet. She still has a chance in November to make us weep once more.
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