Itz News to Me

If there’s any evidence that Sarah Palin is doing the right thing, it’s that she has evidently begun annoying Beltway Republicans.

I guess that the inside-the-Beltway crowd still hasn’t figured out that their way is the wrong way. The base tried to tell them in November when they stayed away from the polls - resulting in Democratic victories in previously uncontested Red states. But they’re so disconnected from voters that even messages like that and the Tea Party demonstrations have made only the most superficial impact on them.

Palin excites the conservative base. Even if D.C. Republicans don’t think she’s a viable candidate for 2012, they should embrace her for the simple reason that their base does. Until the Beltway crowd figures out that slipping anonymous quotes to the media in exchange for invitations to the right dinner parties isn’t going to get you votes at the ballot box, they’re condemned to repeat their losses of 2006 and 2008.

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