This time it involves the arrest of her husband’s half sister — and this should NOT be used against her by her critics — and tensions between her family and her daughter’s ex-fiance. But in the way 21st century politics operates, it most assuredly will provide gloat material for some.The larger issue is this: through her own making or not, Palin has hit a nasty period of negative imagery and the hits in the form of news stories with her name in it that won’t help her imagery keep on comin’. Just being a dream story for tabloids does not a White House Oval Office victory in 2012 make…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.