Rob #9

Trivia is only going to get them so far. I think if prosecutions go forward that #14 Andrew X is correct – it’ll be seen as what it is, an attempt to divert attention. It’ll also open the door to the idea that it’s legitimate to prosecute the officials of an outgoing administration, and it doesn’t take a vivid imagination to see where that particular idea would lead.

You seem to be saying that Sarah P is no longer anything but a diversion, and I couldn’t disagree with you more on that. She’s central. She may never win the WH, but she’s going to be a political force for a while. There’s a lot of disgust in this country with the way the looters were allowed a free hand, and that’s gotta go somewhere. She’s about the only prominent national figure on either side who isn’t tainted by this, and that’s why there has been a relentless attack on her by both political parties.

The political and financial establishment knows people are pissed, and they also know that they have no intention of providing a true accounting of what happened, or who was responsible, because many of them would be implicated in some way. Plus they like things just the way they are, and don’t need some “hick populist” from Alaska riling up the people.

So they can’t do what people are demanding, and they don’t need a very prominent figure pointing this out to the masses. They need to make her go away, and they’ve decided that ridicule is the way to do it. That may keep her out of the WH, but I don’t think she’s going anywhere.