Bristol Palin Still the Dancing Grizzly Cub of America's Heart

Can we get Wouldn't Let Sarah Palin's Daughter Get Eliminated from Dancing with the Stars carved onto America's tombstone?

Seems like a fitting epitaph, don't you think?

Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, will return for the ninth week of the Walt Disney Co. network’s show, after her tango with partner Mark Ballas tied for the judges’ worst score…

"There’s a strong popular movement behind Sarah Palin at the moment and she’s receiving a lot of support from the Tea Party," Conrad Green, executive producer of the program, said in a Nov. 4 interview. "It's entirely possible some of those people are behind Bristol for political reasons."

During the taping of the Nov. 8 show, the 20-year-old Palin wore a Tea Party t-shirt while rehearsing.

I like to imagine Mitt Romney and his daughter sitting in front of the television together, watching this in shared terrified silence, a wedge of unspoken resentment being driven down deeper and deeper with each passing week. Somewhere in the distance, a lonely nightingale chirps its doleful song.

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