Andrew Malcolm:

Wow, for somebody who’s supposed to be such a political joke, an Arctic ditz and eminently dismissable as a serious anything except maybe a stay-at-home hockey mom, Sarah Palin is sure drawing an awful lot of attention from Democrats and eager critics.

The launch of her “Going Rogue” interviews Monday on “Oprah,” of her book today, of her on-air chat today with Rush Limbaugh at 10 a.m. Pacific and of her mid-America bus book tour Wednesday ignited a surprisingly large blizzard of derogatory Democrat dis-missives.

Every few minutes another note from Democratic National Committee operatives and others dropped into electronic mailboxes across the media-verse, helpfully passing on even the tiniest tidbit of negative news about Palin.

You know how sometimes a friend tells you how much he/she doesn’t really care about….

…someone else. Really doesn’t! And repeats it a sufficient number of times that you become convinced of precisely the opposite?

So maybe she does matter after all. (All previous ellipse are in the original.)

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There is much more.

I agree with Malcolm. I can’t recall so many Democrats being that concerned about the GOP’s future and that of a potential candidate. It is a very interesting reaction. Republicans tend to do the opposite. When it looked like an angry Gov. Howard Dean, might be nominated in 2004 by the Democrats, the conservative National Review did a cover story saying in effect “Please nominate this guy.”

Jules Crittenden also notices the “problem,” and asks “Why is everbody talking about her?”