Sisyphus: Not Obsessed w/Sarah Palin

Yesterday, Bubbles complained about progressives being irrationally obsessed with Sarah Palin. Really this is attacking the wrong target. Progressives aren’t obsessed so much as they are responding to the traditional media’s inextricable mania with Palin’s tightly controlled marketing endeavors and continuing to try and sell her as someone qualified to be the most powerful person on the planet. Witness today’s re-print in the Statesman of David Broder’s puff piece from the Washington Post fawning all over her like a dirty old man with delusions of adequacy and a pocketful of Viagra/ Sisyphus , 43rd State Blues. More here .

• The glass /Nicole LeFavour, Notes from the Floor
• D.C. connections /Randy Stapilus
• Marley and Me and Me /Idaho Conservative
• If you like liberty, don’t vote Democrat /Give Me Liberty
• 2-fer: Daily politics brief , and: Monday morning news /Treasured Valley

Question: Do you think progressives are obsessed w/Sarah Palin?