In 1984, the Democratic VP was a charismatic young woman who made history, turned out huge audiences, and fired up the party base. Unfortunately she had some controversies during the campaign which ended up costing her party a point or two.

When her party lost, did the Corporate Media annoint Geraldine Ferraro as the savior of her party, worthy of endless TV coverage? Absolutely not. She was immediately made into a non-person. She lost a subsequent campaign for U.S. Senate and faded into obscurity as an occasional guest on FOX News.

So why is Sarah Palin being treated as a conquering heroine?

Obviously she has nothing intelligent to say about the nation's problems, which are overwhelming. If she did, she would have said them on the campaign trail.

She doesn't even look great because she had to give back her fabulous Neiman-Marcus clothes.

Is it because the Corporate Media is terrified to interview the real leaders of the Republican Party - George Bush, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell, and John Boehner - for fear the American people would tar, feather, and drag them through the streets for the damage they've done to our country?

Update 1: There's one question the Corporate Media refuses to ask Palin. Does she acknowledge her baseless accusations that Obama was "palling around with terrorists" produced a dramatic increase in the number of death threats against Barack Obama? Does she take responsibility for the consequences of her accusations? Will she condemn those who threatened violence against Obama because of her lies?

Update 2: However you slice it, Palin is a loser:

NBC’s Ana Maria Arumi crunched exit poll numbers on Palin for David Gregory’s “1600” on MSNBC. The results: The voters who found her to be qualified to be president were Republicans (74%), from the South (45%), and from rural areas (45%). She greatly underperformed among college grads (35%), independents (35%), and in the suburbs (40%).