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To understand Sarah Palin it might work best to view the movie “The U.S. v. John Lennon.” The Nixon administration was unaccountably preoccupied with John Lennon. One of the commentators said that they had no interest in others like Mick Jagger and saw him as a flighty, marginal figure. But Nixon, his men and the FBI were dogged and driven in their obsession with Lennon. Likely the same with Palin. The latest, the HBO offering “Game Change,” suggests as well that people can’t stop thinking about her. Possibly because she and her husband, Todd, late of the Alaska Independence Party, are, like Lennon, potentially revolutionary figures.

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