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Like a lot of Salon readers, I'm getting a bit tired of "all Palin all the time," but there are at least three good reasons why articles like this one continue to be useful:
- As other readers have pointed out, the MSM isn't doing any real dirt-digging at all on Palin (or McCain, for that matter.) Getting the word out about just how corrupt she is gives Salon readers ammunition for the proverbial water-cooler discussions, and that may just possibly change some low-information voters' minds between now and November.
- Salon readership is mostly Democratic, but, as the letters sections continue to demonstrate, not entirely. At least a few Republican readers might learn something they didn't know about their candidate, and since pretty much everything that's come about Palin's performance as a mayor and governor is negative, that can't hurt. The right-wing trolls will never change their minds, of course, but is it too much to hope for that there still a few thoughtful, principled conservatives out there?
- There is a very good chance that Palin is running for President. McCain is old and sick; he is more likely to die in office than any major-party candidate in living memory (yes, including Reagan in 1984; Reagan was older then than McCain is now, but he didn't have anything like McCain's terrible health history.) If he wins, and then dies and leaves us with President Palin, at least we'll have a little more information to help us anticipate the actions of the stunningly incompetent and corrupt regime which will inevitably follow.
