Not to count any chickens, but did anyone else notice on Saturday Night Live Sarah Pallin told Lorne Michaels that she didn’t think the opening sketch was a realistic depiction of how her press conferences “would have gone.” Granted, she was talking about the press conferences her campaign refused to allow her to give on the trail and not exactly those she would have given were she to have won the vice-presidency, but the use of the perfect conditional here does have a ring of finality. Robert Kubey points out Sarah Palin’s appearance on SNL was a huge GOP disaster, but clearly a disaster for the many does not necessarily equal a disaster for the few, in this case the very few: Sarah Palin and her entourage.

As Obama’s lead solidifies, some are speculating what Palin’s “next” move will be, such as getting her own reality show or becoming a pundit on Fox News. Since the closing arguments are expected to begin today in the corruption trial of Alaska senior Senator Ted Stevens (video above), the thought occurs that we may not be done with Sarah Palin the politician. She will have been the Republican Party’s Vice Presidential candidate and like the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie, it’s more prudent, risk-averse and dare I use the word conservative in the healthy sense of not flying by the seat of your pants (i.e. hail Mary passes with veep candidate selection) to leverage an existing brand with all those marketing dollars already behind it rather than starting form scratch. Then again perhaps there aren’t very many dollars behind this brand, which is why the McCain campaign, desperate to compete with financially flush Obama’s television time, had to let Palin appear on SNL as a way to get exposure on the cheap. Also I’m reminded Governor Palin has a Troopergate investigation of her own to get through. And that Flintstones movie bombed didn’t it… Notwithstanding, an old publicity adage seems to apply: it doesn’t matter what you say about me as long as you spell my name right.

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