“But she’s also heavily encumbered with baggage, a losing candidate at the national level with a long series of tabloidy family dramas and minor scandals. In one sense, she is all potential - a celebrity candidate in the age of celebrity candidates a mere 58 years old at a time when national leadership is contested among people pushing 80. DON YOUNG, “Palin is the embodiment of several conflicting truths in American politics. Now, running for the seat of the late Rep. ‘She’s not seen around much,’ SHELLEY HUGHES, the Republican state Senate majority leader, told me.” Yet here, in her own hometown, Republicans were laughing at her. And she may yet win, purely on name recognition. The 2008, populist folk-hero-of-the-right version of Palin, Siders writes, “would have thundered into a mere congressional race like a ‘mama grizzly’ (her term), easily clearing out any local competition. | AP Photos Bottom Right: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images But, I mean, it’s happening,” said one Alaska resident about Sarah Palin's campaign. “I mean, I don’t know that I know anybody that’s thrilled about it.
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