UPDATE: Thanks to a reader for finding the magazine online at Books-a-Million, so people can get this from them if they don’t see it in their stores.

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If you go to your supermarket or drug store, there’s a magazine called “Historical Moments in Time”.

We’ve only seen this thing out three times so far:  once for Dr. Utopia, once for Sarah Palin when she was made the VP nominee, and now for Palin as a presidential candidate for 2012.

There’s no publisher given, which is weird. It’s $7.99 and an interesting read: there’s transcript of the Oprah interview, notes on Palin’s appearance on Rush, and bits about Barbra Walters too. There’s a large article entitled “The Case for Sarah Palin”.  There are many comparisons to Palin made, ranging from Reagan to Margaret Thatcher to Golda Meir.

The photos used of Palin are great; for example, shots of Palin in the Oprah interview show her smiling, not screengrabs of her talking that would have her with her mouth open or looking strange…those are the kinds of pictures used for Oprah in this magazine.  They honestly make the Charybdis of Lake Michigan look like the monster we insist she really is. Haggard, toad-like, racist, vile…the Oprah Chicagoans know well.

There are bits on the Tea Party movement, an article on Palin choosing to have her undercover angel Trig knowing he had Downs, Palin’s support for the troops, then an entire section showing Palin as a world leader, in very Margaret Thatcher-esque poses.

Towards the end, there’s a section on Palin connecting with average people, and her use of Facebook to hurl ninja throwing stars at the current administration.

It looks like something a presidential campaign would hand out.

It reads like Palin herself wrote it.

When we bought a copy at the CVS on Broadway in Boystown, the sales clerk, a woman in her 50s looked at it, smiled, checked that no one could hear her, and said, “I like her too”.

The magazine is on the table next to us as we write this.  The photo of Palin is staring at us in the face.  It sure feels like she’ll be the 2012 nominee and the next president.

If you can, get a copy…we’re sure there’s one in the White House with the teeth all blacked in and making the circles as a joke.  Probably the “intellectuals” there now are putting it on their chairs, farting on it, and laughing and laughing, high-fiving each other like frat animals.  Let them keep doing that.

Because there sure isn’t any magazine about Mitt Romney, Charlie Crist, Jon Huntsman, or Tim Pawlenty being passed around.

Got that GOP?