Chris Cillizza Is Now Comparing Bill Clinton To Sarah Palin

Chris Cillizza, the WaPo’s political analyst, really doesn’t get Sarah Palin. Via The Fix:

After enduring months of derision within Republican circles for her role as the party’s 2008 vice presidential nominee and her uneven performance as a national figure this year, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is experiencing something of a rebound among the D.C. chattering class in the 48 hours since the release of a very tough profile on her in Vanity Fair magazine.

Chris thinks the ‘rebound’ in her approval from the ‘political insiders’ is caused by the sheer volume of derision Sarah Palin has endured from insiders and tries chalking it up to sort of ‘piling on effect’. Chris even tries making the connection to Slick Willy’s self inflicted damage caused by his serial infidelity and tryst with the intern:

It’s not uncommon for a series of negative stories — no matter how much truth is contained therein — to have a boomerang effect on the person at the center of the controversy.

One needs only look back as far as the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton to see that phenomenon at work. The wall to wall coverage of Clinton had the effect — over time — of convincing people that Clinton had been beaten up enough and turning public opinion to his side.

I think Chris Cillizza’s PDS is really starting to show. It’s quite a stretch comparing the hatchet job that political insiders are performing on Sarah Palin to Bill Clinton’s lying under oath, having other people lie for him, being impeached, being disbarred and his whole host of other issues he brought to the White House.

Sarah Palin is, as The BlogProf put it so succinctly, a citizen politician, not a career politician and the voting population instinctively gets her and her message. The D.C chattering class are sensing the backlash from their actions in the voting public. That is what they are reacting to.

Chris Cillizza, I think John Cleese said it best…

Are you totally Deranged?

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