Sarah Palin Has Captured Our Imagination

Each Palin disaster, instead of spelling the end of her, sets the story up for a new chapter -- even if it's a new disaster.
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Americans can't get enough of Sarah Palin. It doesn't matter which side of the Sarah Palin argument you're on. Awe or apoplexy produces the same result: Give me more coverage of Sarah.

The Times today follows my Vanity Fair colleague Todd Purdum with a meticulous documentation of Palin's personal and professional dysfunction that should, reasonably, doom any political career.

And yet, I dare say, that won't be the effect of the Times' investigation at all. Each Palin disaster, instead of spelling the end of her, sets the story up for a new chapter -- even if it's a new disaster.

We're no longer looking at Palin as principally a politician. We see her as the main character in a satisfying tale that over and over again confirms whatever it is we want to think about her.

We certainly don't want this story to end.

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