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Sarah Palin Is the New Al Gore

The right's answer to the left's biggest political celebrity.

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Slate V: Sarah Palin's Tax Day Rant

Clarification: A previous version of this article listed brown M&Ms as a requirement of celebrity riders. This requirement, made famous by the band Van Halen, was put in contracts not as a peculiar band perk but to ensure that the venue was paying attention.

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John Dickerson is Slate's chief political correspondent and author of On Her Trail. He can be reached at slatepolitics@gmail.com. Read his series on the presidency and his series on risk. Follow him on Twitter.

Photograph of Sarah Palin by Ethan Miller/Getty Images.