"New thing! New shiny thing to attract my attention."
Americans seem to be an interesting hybrid of magpies and goldfish. Short attention spans, always waiting for the new piece of sparkle to catch our eye.
And Sarah Palin is catching eyes. Worried? I'm not.
Why not?
Because Americans get pissed off with the new thing after eight weeks, and consign them to obscurity on the ninth. It's called The Sanjaya Effect.
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We live in the Age of the Attention Whore. And I know now that some Freeper is going to say "he called her a whore!". Shut up. I would call it a niggling issue, but I don't want to give you Freepers ideas.
Everyone knows what an attention whore is, and it doesn't matter if they're men or women. People will talk about the new shining star on TV until they naturally get sick and tired of all the wall-to-wall pushing of the person and that's when they realize they don't have to keep listening about them any more.
All they have to do is not vote for them, or vote for someone else.
Sarah Palin was introduced as the VP nominee on August 29th. That was her initial "in front of the judges" moment (Sanjaya Effect, remember). People were wowed.
We're now on the "Steppin' Out With My Baby" (Irving Berlin) week. And people are beginning to notice that Sanjaya Sarah (sorry) is all hat and no cattle.
The debates will be her "Bathwater" week, no doubt about it.
Her Bonnie Raitt "Something to Talk About" performance will be the week just before the election. And we all know what happened to Sanjaya the week after that. People had something to talk about. And said "you know what? Thanks, but no thanks..."
I just don't know when she'll put her hair up in a Mohawk to detract from not talking about the economy.