Very true, but if they were using Simpson's quotes then the joke really was on them.

Back to Palin, from a UK perspective the will she/won't she aspect of her prospective electoral campaign dominates any coverage about the presidential elections (apart from her many gaffes, and no-one over here knows who Paul Revere was anyway), but she certainly seems to be casting a long dark shadow that keeps the rest of the potential candidates off our screens (in fact, who are the rest of the potential candidates?).