New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Secret of Sarah Palin's Staying Power

July 9, 2009

In October 2005, when President Bush announced his nominee for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Sandra Day O'Connor, conservatives rose up in perfectly reasonable fury. Harriet Miers, they noted, was intellectually undistinguished, ill-qualified for the job, lacking impeccable conservative credentials, and inept in handling basic constitutional questions.

Today, writes Steve Chapman, the same things could be said about Sarah Palin. Yet just as quickly and vigorously as conservatives rejected Miers, they embraced Palin. Even after her bungling performance in the 2008 campaign and her strange decision to resign as governor of Alaska, some of them still do.

Read all about it here.