Does Silvio Berlusconi Explain Sarah Palin?
5 March 2010 7:00 AM, PST There were three Sarah Palin stories yesterday. She and her retinue hit the Oscars like “locusts,” grabbing all the freebies they could find (a natural reflex your first time in Hollywood during Oscar week). She’s deep into her next book (after the first, it must seem like printing money). And she’s shopping a reality TV show (Who isn’t? And who better than Sarah Palin to have one?). Face it: Nobody, Democrat or Republican, with an iota of professional political sense, is able to adequately explain how this career has gotten this far and how it might plausibly unfold. She wants, without excuses, whatever she can have, whether or not she comes out looking kooky, craven, or comic. For more than twenty years, in Italy, there has been, among most Italians, an attempt to explain that most inexplicable political creature, Silvio Berlusconi.
