It may be hard to do if you’re a liberal blogger, frustrated with what your administration has managed to achieve so far and the general unwillingness of Obama to actually act liberal, but spare a thought for your poor, befuddled rightwing counterpart. Imagine you’re one of the original warbloggers. You were just another middle manager or low ranking IT consultant, ignorant of politics until 9/11 changed everything and you started to spew your hate and fear online sometime in 2002 or 2003. Sometime later you got lucky on a few stories and got linked to by Instapundit (or maybe you are instapundit) and you got your own following, even some handy extra income from the blogads you put up. For a few years it was all good, making some pocket money from annoying liberals and sure, you sometimes had your doubts about Bush but they were quickly suppressed by his continuing succes and your share in it.
But then it all went wrong. The wars you supported turned sour and the country turned on the Republicans some time later, but while you could see the writing on the wall, your commenters and peers stayed optimistic, convinced everything would work out in the end. Even when the economy turned south and the best your party could nominate for the presidential elections was McCain they stayed optimistic and you went with them. But then Sarah Palin became the vicepresidential candidate and it all seemed too much. Bush may have been a bit dim, but here was somebody who wasn’t just dumb, but without any of the advantages Bush brought to the table, hailed as the second coming. What was wrong with your party? Couldn’t they see how bad she was? You almost feelt glad that McCain lost the election.
Now fast forward a year and here this Palin woman — whom you thought would never ever show her face again — is launchign her “autobiography”, featured on Oprah and talking serioously about whether or not she would be a candidate in 2012. It’s enough to make you eat a shotgun…