The way I look at it is she's just a side show. Less cred than the Limbaugh's and the Beck's. Hell, even Orly is smarter and more respected intellectually than SP. NONE of these aforementioned a$$-wipes demand an ounce of worry.
She is a cunning freak, and will inspire weak-minded people to blindly follow. It's America- we have our share of crazies. But she is a special type of crazy. She games very very well.
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So eventually, after the luster is gone- she will spiral to her toilet.
What spirals with her? A LOT of pro and con SP entrepreneurs that cash in on her polarity and notoriety.
When she's gone, there will be plenty of mundane sites and pundits, with barely a hose for their trumpet.
She actually does stimulate the economy.
Look at what she has spawned? The Mudflats ( http://www.themudflats.net/ ) wouldn't be as heavily populated by outsiders like myself, if it weren't for her. Immoral majority ( http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/ )would be a rant, and Palingates ( http://palingates.blogspot.com/ ) would need a new namesake for it's hinges. Shannyn Moore ( http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/ )wouldn't be on HP as much, and ADN.com would lose a lot of out of state traffic.
She literally is the paprika for local politics (you like it or hate it- but you can't miss it).
I applaud these sites (don't get me wrong- I love the flats- and devour the other sites) but you gotta think that without her, the blogosphere in Alaska would be a little thinner.
I have to say, I like dissing on her- because it is so much fun, and too easy almost.
I'm going to post this diatribe of the DailyKos now to test that theory. Well heck- on top of that- click on my link just to see if the theory holds out. I figure this topic is worth 100 or so additional peeps.
Curently my count is 5251 visits. Between here and Daily Kos I figure to bump it up.
The sad thing is, my real story for the day was taking a 20 day old baby girl off cardiopulmonary ECMO support for a process that lasted three hours. Three hours of a painful and and sad end to newborn's life and the dreams of her parents. Now THAT was a hard dose of reality. But not noteworthy to anyone but the family and tremendous nursing staff we had involved in the effort.
I'm gonna go count some beans now...
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