The most glittering star in the Republican firmament, whose every Facebook update and Twitter missive sets journalists’ laptops humming, who is currently embroiled in a feud with her next-door neighbor (now that the kid who knocked up her daughter has temporarily faded from view), who has one best-selling book and another on the way, not to mention the six-figure speaking fees and the gigs on two different cable networks, doesn’t actually hold a job. In fact, neither do most of the other probable 2012 GOP contenders, the ex-governors and ex-congressmen, now politically famous for being famous.
Remember when they mocked Barack Obama for being just a “celebrity”? Those were the days.
— Paul Waldman
