Sarah Palin is dissatisfied with the prevailing model of mass politics:

On the tarmac, Palin also referred to robocalls as “inside baseball,” suggesting it was not her call for the campaign to randomly call voters with negative attacks on Obama. “If I called all the shots, and if I could wave a magic wand, I would be sitting at a kitchen table with more and more Americans … and not having to rely on the old conventional ways of campaigning that includes those robocalls and includes spending so much money on the television ads that I think is kinda draining out there in terms of Americans’ attention span,” she said.

That is to say, if Sarah Palin were calling the shots and bearing a magic wand, the United States would be as populous as a small town — say, for instance, a small town in Alaska — and she’d be calling Barack Obama a terrorist consort at your kitchen table.

Speaking merely for myself, I’ve never heard a stronger rationale for eliminating the very idea of a kitchen.