My two favorite brunettes are always in the news: the Mama Grizzly(Sarah Palin) and the Historian Extraordinaire/Financial Wizard(my words)(Michele Bachman). They are sound bites waiting to happen; fodder for fans and pundits alike. Now who would have ever thought that one would, in effect, steal the thunder of the other?  Bachman has been stealing Palin’s thunder as of late and last week the mere linking of her possibly forming a presidential exploratory committee had the media atwitter. Meanwhile Palin’s fan base was dialing back her presidential aspirations while she jetted off to India to deliver a keynote speech at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi.  Conservative Andrew Breitbart says the presidency is beneath her and she would be better in a “Oprah Type” political role, in other words a king-maker and not a king.

Wonder if it has anything to do with her poll numbers being way down and I also wonder if Sarah Palin feels the presidency is beneath her? At times she acts as if she is already president; interjecting her often incorrect thoughts on policy. Why is this woman ever asked to give her opinion on anything, she is just not that bright. She is the  type that reads the news headlines and not the story e.g., just the other day she said that our intervention in Libya was costing 600 million a day. The 600 million figure is actually for the first week of the intervention and host Greta Van Susteren didn’t bother to correct her either. Ted Koppel would have never let that happen, she would have been corrected early and often.

Americans seemed to have soured on Sister Sarah because even back to January Bachman wasn’t really a factor other than spouting her usual Obama-speak and quoting history incorrectly. Things seemed to have turned when she did the “Tea Party” response to the State of the Union complete with Glen Beckish charts and graphs. Recently she’s been crisscrossing the country, raising lots of money and garbling history along the way. She been to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina; all states that vote early in the presidential nomination. You can barely turn on the television without seeing her. On a recent Meet the Press appearance  she was on point with her talking points so much so that she barely veered off  and repeated the same thing no matter which question she was asked. An article in the New York Times calls her the next Sarah Palin but I think she’s more calculated  politically than Sarah. She has aligned herself with the Tea Party base and isn’t afraid to speak up for them. For all that the Republicans control they just can’t find a person that will totally captivate the base as Obama and Clinton did in the last election. No fresh faces but the same old tired ones: Palin, Romney, Huckabee, T-Paw, Hee-Haw…I mean Haley Barbour and Newt. Bill Clinton could say he was running again and garner more interest. It’s fitting then I guess that Bachman and even Herman Cain are on the lips of some Republicans who just want to get excited about who’s running.

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