why do those fish keep swimming in the barrel?

an open letter

Dear former Governor Palin:

It appears that you have managed to put together your second book in two years, all the while traversing the lower 48 on behalf of your grizzly cubs, decrying the free media while accepting paid media opportunities, and communicating directly with your fans and acolytes via digital media.

Now there's some leakage from this book, including the following line:

"Do you ever wonder where the producers of American Idol come up with the seemingly endless supply of people who can’t sing but are deluded enough to get up in front of a national television audience and screech out a song anyway?"

let's play a fun word game for a moment, and do the following with some words:

If you replace producers with parties, people with candidates, sing with lead, and song with speech in this line, would you be talking about yourself?

"Do you ever wonder where the parties come up with the seemingly endless supply of candidates who can’t lead but are deluded enough to get up in front of a national television audience and screech out a speech anyway?"

Sincerely,