There is a Facebook group called sarahpalinisamoron. If there wasn’t, I was going to create one.
I raised this dynamic with an experienced political web operative — who did not want to go on record antagonizing Palin — and this pol argued that while Palin can drive magazine covers and book sales, her core political support remains vastly overstated. “More of the viewers were people critical of her rather than fans, although the lazy implication is for people to say, ‘Look at all her fans, she has 300k views on YouTube,’” said the operative, adding, “She doesn’t have real support among actual people, even Republican primary voters. She is a self-perpetuating phenomenon of, by and for the media.”
She is a media creation and she is self perpetuating.