The Palin Flop

Conor Friedersdorf has come under attack from Palin fans for reporting that his screening of The Undefeated was almost empty. Besides the personal attacks and conspiracy theories, he questions the larger issue:

[W]hat is ultimately at stake? Say it earns billions. Is that going to shrink the federal government? Or reform entitlements? Or affect the foreign policy America adopts? Why would an ideological movement that insists the country is going down the tubes waste so much time and energy complaining about their perception that a movie is doing better than the MSM says?