The UK spectator’s Coffee House blog sometimes comments about US politics from a supposedly right wing perspective but when I say that it generally references Brooks, Frum, Sullivan and Douthat probably guess the nature of it’s conservatism can easily be guessed.

Hence over the last two years the contributors have either ignored Sarah Palin or treated her with disdain. Similarly the well educated young chaps at the Coffee House completely ignored the town halls and other meetings that saw the birth of the Tea Party movement in 2009. Only in recent months, when GOP primary contests began to get under way did the movement become a topic of interest.

Now suddenly Palin appears at Coffee House as a person who could have a strong chance of getting the GOP nomination for 2012 – and regular readers must become puzzled for had not The Coffee House consistently dismissed her as an ignorant, uneducated irrelevance whose five minutes of fame fizzled out in November 2008 and totally evaporated a few months later when she resigned as Governor of Alaska?

Never fear for they have her measure. In a recent post resident superbrain Peter Hoskin gets us all the right stuff directly from the horse’s mouth – The New York Magazine (the natural home of all unbiased news and views on Palin) where John Heilemann wrote a strange article about Bloomberg running as a third party candidate, splitting the liberal/left vote with Obama and letting Palin win the White house.

Naturally this made Hoskin totally orgasmic because, like Heilemann and other pundits they are still hooked on meaningless favourability polls two years out of an election.

Two points to note. Heilemann is a liberal who thinks Obama has not been liberal enough. Secondly his claim to be a pundit whose words should be regarded with awe need to be taken with a pinch of salt because, in September, he poured scorn on Sharron Angle’s chances of beating Reid in Nevada, calling her a “nuthouse resident”…..mmmmm…checked the current polls yet, Mr H?

But then only someone like Hoskin at the Coffee house would assume that an article in The New York  Magazine would be a worthwhile gauge of anything Palin. But then I guess they would prefer something that reinforced their own prejudices rather than “Five Myths about Sarah Palin” by Matthew Continetti in The Washington Post ….I wonder why?