The image I get of the Conservative Taliban Party (formerly known as the Republican Party) is really of a bunch of "heel" wrestlers.  I think that a wrestling image is actually even in the opening montage of the movie _Idiocracy_, and IMO it is aptly placed.

Think about professional wrestlers that the audience hates--their entire act is wrestling dirty, working the refs, saying things on the ring microphone intentionally to incite and anger the audience and the "face wrestlers" (the good guys).  If at any time they do or say anything which is slightly noble, it is death to the act--it will confuse the audience into having actual conflict as they process the action, when all the audience should have is pure bloodlust.  So regardless of what the heel wrestler is being interviewed about, he has to throw in a cheap shot at his opponent, or say the most maddening insult about the city they are wrestling in, or gloat about his greatness and kiss his biceps in a disgraceful lack of (what passes as) class.  The whole thing might be an act (the heel wrestlers and the face wrestlers all go out to dinner as friends after the cameras are off, just like Washington is all buddy-buddy about preventing any serious reform of the status quo or challenging the all-powerful Dem-Rep duopoly), but in the ring, every single thing the heel wrestler does has to be intentionally evil.

Ignoring her gender, and ignoring the fact that the parallel isn't perfect (a quarter of this country is _rooting_ for the bad guys, which rarely happens in a wrestling arena, and the Democrats are certainly not crowd favorites right now), Sarah Palin is very much a heel wrestler.  She seeks out camera attention, she distorts every fact to make herself always look like the victim (think of how a heel wrestler pretends to cower in fear to sucker in his opponent so that his manager can hit him from behind with a chair), she is stupid, she is arrogant, she is mean, she plays dirty, she is delusional, her speeches which try to tear down her opponents are nothing but poorly-acted "central casting" boiler plate insults, she blames the refs for her losses, and everything about her image is a complete, utter fraud.

And the MSM are the joke "announcers" who cover everything like it is actually happening for real, rather than all an act.  Who are perpetually awestruck by the spectacle that is the bad guy (with his robe and manager and music and pyrotechnics), and their reaction to this spectacle hypes the conflict and encourages the audience to feel an unwarranted sense of terror, as though they are themselves physically about to be hurt by the heel wrestler.  A perfect little world of flash and adrenaline and fakeness and lies--marketed screamingly to the stupid and to children.