Sarah Palin's Sarah Palin Movie All About Sarah Palin

Just as I was about to fall into inescapable despair over the prospect of Sarah Palin keeping herself out of the 2012 GOP presidential primaries, news hits that she's produced a movie all about herself and how awesome she is and how quitting her governor job midway through her term makes her a superhero or something.

And she's premiering it in Iowa!

[It] is a two-hour-long, sweeping epic, a rough cut of which [conservative filmmaker Stephen K.] Bannon screened privately for Sarah and Todd Palin last Wednesday in Arizona, where Alaska's most famous couple has been rumored to have purchased a new home. When it premieres in Iowa next month, the film is poised to serve as a galvanizing prelude to Palin's prospective presidential campaign — an unconventional reintroduction to the nation that she and her political team have spent months eagerly anticipating, even as Beltway Republicans have largely concluded that she won't run.

Bannon, a former naval officer and ex-Goldman Sachs banker, sees his documentary as the first step in Palin's effort to rebuild her image in the eyes of voters who may have soured on her, yet might reconsider if old caricatures begin to fade. The film will also appeal to staunch Palin supporters who have long celebrated her biting rhetoric and conservative populism yet know little about her record in Alaska and have perhaps written her off as presidential material.

"This film is a call to action for a campaign like 1976: Reagan vs. the establishment," Bannon told RealClearPolitics. "Let's have a good old-fashioned brouhaha."

Wow! Sounds incredibly moving. But will it carry intellectual heft?

Bannon dramatizes the theme of Palin's persecution at the hands of her enemies in the media and both political parties, a notion the former governor has long embraced. Images of lions killing a zebra and a dead medieval soldier with an arrow sticking in his back dramatize the ethics complaints filed by obscure Alaskan citizens, which Palin has cited as the primary reason for her sudden resignation in July of 2009.

Oh, good. I was worried there for a minute.