Sarah Palin's New Normal

*This is an interesting process. When will it stop? Sarah Palin seems to imagine that when she returns to private life, nobody is going to legally and extralegally harass her. On the contrary: I'm rather imagining that the persecution of Sarah Palin intensifies radically once she leaves office. Nobody is harassing her *because she is Governor of Alaska.* She's catching hell for the stark fact that she is Sarah Palin, a polarizing hate figure.

*Let me use a sports metaphor here, for the Palin