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The conservative mini-movement to distance Sarah Palin from the Republican Party and movement conservatism is stuffed with delicious, mouth-watering irony, as Daniel Larison points out:

It’s true that Palin relies on shallow talking points, but where do these come from? They come from the institutions and leaders of the movement that is supposedly so concerned with ideas. Palin is disinterested in ideas, and she has flourished in the conservative media for years. She does rely on shallow talking points, and legions of conservative pundits have repeatedly defended her against charges that she is ignorant and incurious. Everything about her public persona since she received the VP nomination has been built up around tapping into resentment, grievance, and identity politics, all of which are in one way or another antithetical to critical thinking and substantive discussion of policy, and for a while most of her new detractors said nothing or gushed about how wonderful she was.

Palin is really no different from most of the Republican base and it's only now that some of the cooler heads are adding up the electoral votes that they speak out against Snow Snooki. I will only take these criticisms seriously when Fats Limbaugh, The Baby Jesus Hannity and Glenda Beck are also denounced by these conservative mandarins. Note that Limbaugh and Beck have been keynote speakers at CPAC so any denunciation of them will result in the fracturing of the conservative movement. (YAH!)