The invisible Sarah Palin.

On one hand I think the American public is correct in that they have had enough of the former governor and her holier than thou lifestyle. But, on the other hand I think she is politically dangerous and we don't need another populous candidate for president if that is what she might have on her mind.

But, to update:

September 22, 2021

...Todd Palin filed for divorce in 2019 (click here) after 31 years of marriage, according to People, citing "incompatibility of temperament." While they didn't publicly reveal the cause of their split, it's possible that the pressures of fame took their toll on the couple. Family friend John Coale told the outlet, "It's been a long road to this. The family just had to take so much and couldn't handle it, I don't know if anybody could. It's a tragedy. Sarah Palin is a great person, and now it seems the family is in tatters" (via People)....

I think "incompatibility of temperament" is interesting and a bit abusive, if not a lot abusive. It isn't the same as irreconcible differences. I can picture her being verbally abusive. I think that political identity lends itself to abusive behavior and alienating personality. She is dating a former NHL start.

February 12, 2022
By Dana Kennedy

Ex-NHL star Ron Duguay (click here) has confirmed that he and “buddy” Sarah Palin are indeed dating, according to a report.

Duguay has been on hand supporting the one-time vice presidential candidate at the Manhattan Federal Courthouse, where her defamation case against The New York Times was in its seventh day of trial Friday.

“We’re friends. I’m here to support her,” The New York Rangers legend said of Palin on the courthouse steps earlier Friday....

This all came to light with the conclusion of her recent libel trial with the New York Times. She may be trying to change her image, new man, hence, new woman. I think her political days are over. I would be surprised if after Trump another populous candidate actually gains the country's interest.

February 10, 2022

By Seth Stevenson

...I admit, at this point in her testimony, *click here) I was a little impressed. Palin in no way resembled the caricature I had in my head. She was confident, articulate, and—somewhat to my surprise—quite lucid. I’m not saying she was Stephen Hawking, but she at least evinced a sort of horse sense, paired with grinning charisma, that you could imagine might make her an effective mayor or governor. Then, about a half-hour in, the wheels came off.

Palin’s own attorney asked her to shift her focus forward from 2011 to 2017, when a New York Times editorial revived that false connection between Palin’s rhetoric and the Giffords shooting (thereby provoking this lawsuit). Palin responded by saying the Times had “lied” about it “again.” A lawyer for the Times objected, for obvious reasons: No one—including Palin in her filed complaint—has ever alleged that the New York Times got this wrong on any other occasion aside from that one editorial.

Palin’s lawyer tried to help her clean it up. Judge Jed S. Rakoff invited her to clarify what she meant. But Palin doubled down, saying, “My view was the Times took a lot of liberties” in the wake of the Giffords shooting and that the paper had “led the charge” against her back then. Confused looks sprouted on everyone’s faces. Reporters exchanged glances. Palin grew flustered, recognizing that something had curdled but not exactly sure what she’d screwed up. And here she reverted to the caricature: that fidgety posture and those looping, meaningless sentences. “I don’t have the specific references in front of me,” she said, desperately scrambling to recover....

The conclusion is:

February 14, 202
By Jody Godoy and Jonathan Stempel

...In an abrupt twist (click here) in a trial seen as a test of longstanding protections for American media, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said Palin's lawsuit must be dismissed because she failed to show the Times acted with "actual malice," the standard in lawsuits involving public figures....