SARAH ON SATURDAY – AT 10:45 A.M. ET:  There's still plenty of buzz about the 24,000 Sarah Palin e-mails released by the state of Alaska yesterday.  And a lot of the buzz has to do with the fact that the whole incident is a bust.  Nothing of significance has been found, despite the fevered efforts of mainstream journalists, some of whom have actually asked for the help of readers to go through the messages.

Could this mess actually help Sarah Palin?  Thomas Lifson, at American Thinker, believes it can, and gives us our quote of the day, pointing out that Bill Clinton's popularity actually went up during the impeachment process that dominated his second term:

It seems incongruous to put Bill Clinton in the same sentence as Sarah Palin, but the political jujitsu the former president accomplished when struggling with the damning evidence of Oval Office misconduct and perjury in its cover-up has a lesson. The American public loves underdogs and despises bullies. Polls asking the public about various occupations inevitably find that politicians and media rank near the bottom in terms of credibility and likability. President Clinton and his attack dogs recognized that the impeachment-minded GOP House could be demonized, in effect spray painting him with Teflon® against their attack.

One can at least wonder if something of the same process might be at work with Mrs. Palin. She has demonstrated time and again an ability to confound her haters with unorthodox tactics, turning their fury back against them. The feeding frenzy in Juneau offers her another opportunity to turn the tables on those who seek to destroy her.

COMMENT:  Lifson makes a good point, although I hasten to add that the press was on Bill Clinton's side, and isn't on Sarah Palin's.  However, I hope the public is on Sarah's side.  Perhaps voters will notice the intensity of the hatred directed at Sarah, while Barack Obama gets a free pass on almost everything.

But again I express my frustration that Sarah resigned her governorship.  It simply deflated her stature.  She hasn't regained it.  I think the future is uncertain, but some public outrage at what the press is trying to do to her would at least be encouraging.

June 11, 2011