The former Pennsylvania senator’s been visiting key primary states since at least last summer, but since then the conservative-values tea-party movement has picked up a lot of steam. The country has changed, at least in terms of the stories and personalities to which the media devotes its energy, a lot since the young, good-looking, anti-abortion, anti-LGBT, and anti-immigration-reform activist lost his Senate seat by fourteen points in 2006. Memo to Sarah Palin — you’ve got company in your far-right corner. [CQ]
