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Caligirl 
She is appealing because she is not as varnished as the rest, you feel like she could be your neighbor. And she is a living example of pro life values. Look she is obviously authentic in a lot of ways. You know where she stands on stuff, I'll give her that.
Is that your impression of her?
She remind me of the kind of reasonably attractive woman who uses her charms to wrap a particularly sexually immature kind of man (that would be most of them BTW, regardless of age) around her conniving
femme fatale finger.
Her
winking to the camera act was offensive to me, to be frank.
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She is 'everything that is wrong' because she is so polarising and extreme and perhaps inflexible in some of her views.
And those are the things that make her everything
right to some others, too.
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You can't effectively lead a society as diverse as the US if you don't understand the perspective from other parts of the political spectrum.
True enough. The Republicans played the hand that Bush dealt them, but even their propaganda machine ( Palin included) couldn't make most Americans buy into their act this time round
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Her strength is 'rallying the base' but I don't know that she has much beyond that, time will tell.
I think the people who rally aound her and her stated values are somewhat discredited right now.
But the American people do seem to have a very short collective memory, so, like you, I think time will tell.
She's capitalizing on her fame (and infamy, too) and frankly, I can't fault her for that.