Do you think Palin will run for president?

[Wetzelbill]

I wonder, if McCain loses, if she'll end up running four years from now. I think if they win she'd assuredly do it in 4 to 8 years, but something about her unnerving and undeserved confidence in her abilities makes me think she'll do it. Palin seems to think she could truly run the country, even though she knows little about anything. She actually revels in ignorance, and her naked ambition is evident enough, so I think she'll give it a shot as soon as she can.

[waiting for hope]

1. You Betcha!

Her ego is the size of Alaska, no wait, Russia!

[Soup Bean]

8. I think she's running RIGHT NOW.

If I had the unfortunate circumstances of being John McCain, I would really be pissed that my running mate, whom I MADE, is running around dissing me, knocking down my positions, and letting them talk creepy about me on SNL. Wotta Marroon (jacket that is. Is that red jacket all Palin has)?

[Bucky]

2. 2016. You'll see her pass on running for Senate in 2014, then pray for "Hope Fatigue"

[Barack_America]

3. She already is. nt

[begin_within]

4. She'll be running

for the border.

[graywarrior]

5. She thinks she will

[frickaline]

64. haha! exactly. (nt)

[medeak]

6. there is already a campaign org for her...will have to look up n/t

[pocoloco]

7. That's what she is doing now.

Not likely to get another shot.

[BlooInBloo]

9. Gawd i hope so!!!!

[Jackpine Radical]

10. She will try, and it will go nowhere.

The one fly in my predictive ointment is if she's in prison or something (at least majorly disgraced) for one or another gross misdeed.

[DeadManInc]

11. Her political career is over.

[minnesota_liberal]

45. No, but it will be in 2 weeks.

Except in the oil-rich, Federal welfare state of Alaska, where she probably has another 25 months.

[still_one]

12. Not if they lose. Her republican career will be over. My guess

is that she will become a right wing radio talk show host, or get a job on faux

[WindRiverMan]

50. Nah, she won't leave Alaska. Todd won't let her.

She will go back to Alaska, finish her term as governor, get spanked in the primaries. Test the water for 2012, find out that Rudy Guliani had a better shot, then go back to Alaska and run for mayor of Anchorage or the Senate. Palin had few friends in the Republican party up there, now the democrats up there hate her. Her options are limited.

[babylonsister]

13. No, but she might be in jail or disgraced by Alaskans from ever

running for anything again. This last stunt must have many of them fuming:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/10/ap_investigation_palin_childre.php

AP INVESTIGATION: Palin charged state for children's travel, later amended expense reports

[mckara]

14. Maybe, When She Grows Up

[Colobo]

15. 2012- Either Romney or Palin vs. Obama.

[Thrill]

16. Yes. Palin/Jindal. Bet that

[political_Dem]

33. Good Grief. I hope not.

That's having twice the fundies all the time.

[madamesilverspurs]

72. Some MSM pundit

said a few days ago that 2012 would be Palin and Jeb Bush.

[Marsala]

17. She'll be 2012's Rudy

...unless she gets impeached on ethical grounds. There is a remote possibility that the Repukes will lose their collective minds and nominate her, but it's very remote.

[Wetzelbill]

25. that's what I was thinking too

[Tallison]

34. I don't think she'd get far in the primaries

Her rivals would eat her alive without a miraculous about-face in her knowledge base and current affairs command, regarding which she's innately incurious. And her negatives reflect a fatal mainstream aversion to the Palin brand.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

18. She'd better hope she survives the rest of her gubernatorial term,

but if she does, Mooselini will be back in four years like a belch from a bad onion.

[Rectangle]

19. IMO, she'd get chewed up by her rivals - unless she

improves EXPOTENTIALLY!! Also she'd have to go on Meet the Press, FTN
hardball ect... Than could/would get UGLY!!!!!!!!

[Hippo_Tron]

20. If she's the nominee in 2012, Obama won't even have to leave the White House to campaign

Just give her a TV camera and a microphone and let her talk.

[CrispyQ]

21. This campaign is her 15 minutes of fame.

I think she'll be lucky to be re-elected as Alaska gov. But she's sure having the time of her life, I'll say that. $150k wardrobe & makeover? Shit, I thought Stacey & Clinton were generous with their $5k. ;)

[mtnsnake]

22. She'll be nothing more than a bad memory for everyone on both parties by then

I doubt if she'll even win her re-election bid for Governor of Alaska when the time comes.

Sarah Palin is a joke and nothing more.

[WeDidIt]

23. She'll run in 2012

Jindal will beat her, though.

[SheilaT]

24. No. She's going to be

the biggest has-been of all time on November 5th. She'll be a trivia question in another year.

[Wetzelbill]

29. yeah but do you think that would stop her?

It's kind of hard to get the joke when you don't understand that everybody is laughing at you. I think she's just goofy enough to try it.

[SheilaT]

63. She might, as you so correctly put it, be goofy enough

to try. However, it's impossible for me to see her having any significant support in four or eight years to be able to mount any sort of campaign at all. There's a distant possibility she'll announce a run, but if that happens she'll drop out very quickly. More to the point, I can't imagine she'll be in any kind of position to even start any kind of presidential campaign. I doubt she'll be re-elected as governor of Alaska two years from now. She's the kind of small-town politician who sometimes can run a small town for years, but can't begin to succeed on a larger playing field. The ONLY reason she's the VP candidate is because McCain or someone advising him apparently thought that all the disappointed Hillary supporters would move en masse to the Republican Party to vote for a woman, any woman.

The real thing to worry about might be that she'll spend the next twenty or thirty years trying to play the victim card, about how she was smeared by that nasty left wing liberal media elite but is truly beloved by real, Patriotic Americans. There will be a tiny but vocal minority who will beat that drum endlessly.

[glowing]

26. I don't think so.. She has a lot of really high negatives..

Her smarter route would have been sneaking into the Senate. She's not Presidential, but had she been in the Senate a couple of years, plucking her into a VP spot then would have prepared her much better for the National stage.. No, I don't think she's anything but a cheerleader now.

[Doremus]

27. In 10 years Tweety will run a segment: "Whatever happened to Sarah Palin?"

After she's impeached in Alaska she'll fade into obscurity. Mercifully so, for her and us.

[jberryhill]

75. Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine /nt

[Tallison]

28. She'll WAY lose in the primary stage

She freaks as many moderate Republicans as liberals out by her polarizing effect. The more her notoriety rises, the further her favorability falls. She'll become the Kucinich of the Republican party - energizing to the base, but too radical to ever put out front.

[tblue]

35. Bingo! Thats my prediction, too.

Though I like Dennis & have never voted for him.

[Tallison]

39. I like him, too

But I'm too practical to put him out front. He can remain the conscience of our party, and Palin...well, I'm sure she'll find a niche well-ensconced among the party faithful.

[Wetzelbill]

37. yeah I think so too

A woman would be hard pressed to win a GOP presidential primary.

Kucinich is hardly radical though. He's just an actual liberal Democrat, seeing one of those seems weird to people because everything has gone so far to the Right.

[Tallison]

40. It's mainstream perception that counts in Presidential politics

which is why McCain's flaying so badly now. I like Kucinich a lot, too - he represents my worldview better than any major Democratic players. That said, a two-party system is all about striking the perfect compromise, and you can't win baby steps with idealism. But...I know we're we all know that here.

:hi:

[Uzybone]

30. She has a full backpack full of scandals

She is done.

[Poseidan]

31. no chance

Very few candidates are viable more than once. Usually, they become viable because of present circumstance. Obviously, in Palin's case, she was only chosen for present circumstance.

[Jed Dilligan]

32. I sure hope she does.

[political_Dem]

36. That's why it is up to Alaska to punish her for her violation of ethics standards.

It is also important that she is made to pay for her corruption. She needs to be recalled or impeached. That is the only way to make her politically neutralized so she can't run again.

[salin]

38. if yes, only for a very short period of time

she might have had a shot at a longer run in the GOP primaries (four years from now), had she not joined this ticket. Numbers now show that she has become a bigger drag on McCain than Bush. In the post election (assuming Obama wins - which looks more and more likely) she will be even more savaged. Her own party will savage any such candidacy. If she doesn't get that after this election doesn't teach her anything (per taming her arrogance to assume that her experience really has prepared her to run this country), than she deserves the thrashing she would likely get in her parties own primaries.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

41. Yes

And she'll pick dipshit Dan Quayle as her VP.

[bridgit]

42. In spite of her Miss Congeniality running game by then she'll be a bit long in the tooth

It'll take more than a $75,000 trip to Neiman-Marcus & cocktails at the Rove' to pull that off imo

[Jade Fox]

43. Two words: Dan Quayle

It's pretty hard to recover from having become a national joke. Yes, Quayle was elected along with Bush Senior in '88, but his subsequent attempts at public office went nowhere.

Who would back Palin for President? I'm pretty sure the Republicans at this point wish she were never born.

[malik flavors]

44. She'll win the primaries with ease, then it will be Clinton Vs. Palin in 2016.

[mmonk]

46. That would be wonderful if she did.

Her only realistic shot at the White House besides using her gun is as a VP candidate and the President dies in office.

[PatSeg]

47. Nope

I think she'd like to and may even believe she will run, but she is on the fast-track to "has-been" world. Meanwhile, she seems to have lots of political dirt to clean up in Alaska. She might want to withdraw from the public eye, spend more time with the family, get in a little hunting, etc. Bye, bye Sarah - we hardly knew ya, thank god.

[dansolo]

48. She won't even be governor any more in 4 years

I doubt very much that any one is going to take her seriously when she is either impeached or loses re-election in two years.

[lonestarnot]

49. I think all she better do is just run.

:crazy: That may be something she could understand.

[IDemo]

51. Maybe as an independent. The republic party ain't gonna touch her

Maybe as the "Real American Party" candidate? :)

[BlueGirlRedState]

52. I think she and a lot of others will start running on Nov. 5

The next slate of GOP hopefuls will start their engines on Nov. 5, Sarah among them.

I think their best hope is getting the constitution changed to allow Arnold to run in 2012.

[Disturbed]

58. She will be lucky if she survives as Gov. within the next six months.

She has been exposed as a corrupt, inept Gov.

[TheDonkey]

53. No rethugs will throw her under the bus after the ticket is embarassed in 2 weeks.

[treestar]

54. Anybody can run for President

I could do it if I wanted to.

[complain jane]

55. I'm convinced she CAN run the country

into the ground like a fucking dart.

[Ioo]

56. God I hope so - Cake Walk is she gets the nod

We could run anyone.

[skipos]

57. I hope so.

She stimulates the 25% base, and repulses everybody else.

[Ferret Annica]

59. A dumber then Dan Quayle candidate with lipstick

Just what we need.

[whistler162]

60. I don't know....

do Federal prison's have cell block Presidents.

[JimWis]

61. Hell no. After Obama wins, the Repugs will regroup and try to

rebuild their party for the next 4 years. They will be out looking for the best candidate they can find. And it won't be Palin. Of course Obama will be doing 8 years so it won't matter. By then, Palin will be history only.

[D23MIURG23]

62. Of course. And her candidacy will look just like Huckabees.

None of the Adults on the other side want her.

[Orsino]

65. Not when she loses as resoundingly as she's about to.

Not when Alaskans finally take a close look at her rule by vendetta, and gain the courage to laugh at her.

No, she's not going to run for president again. She will be very lucky to escape the consequences of her abuses of power back home.

No, the GOP will have had enough of failure, and will be busy rebranding themselves. Again.

[Clio the Leo]

66. Maybe, but if she does, she'll be wearing four year old clothes. :-) NT

[sofa king]

67. We can only hope.

Like this President, it's pretty obvious that she'll never be qualified for the job. Unlike this President, people are now likely to care about that sort of thing for a long, long time.

[terrya]

68. Hell yes, she will.

This woman is very ambitious.

She'll be laying the groundwork for 2012 right after January.

[AtomTan]

69. The Palins

All I see in her future is a reality series.

[workinclasszero]

70. Mooselini is already running for 2012

as others have said. She and the reich wing are just using McBush to do it.

[Essene]

71. she may try... but she's toast after this election

[Frank Cannon]

73. Not as a Republican

I believe her career with the GOP is over.

She might be the standard bearer for some idiot fundamentalist psycho third party, however.

[No Elephants]

74. With all that's come out, Dems in Alaska should start an Impeach Palin movement ASAP.

[sampsonblk]

76. Absolutely

Unless she is blamed by conservatives for this impending landslide.

[LanternWaste]

77. Much like a stoner after smoking three big joints, she's now...

Much like a stoner wearing one sandal and dirty shorts after smoking three big joints and zoning out on South Park, she's now toasted to the nth degree.

She's illustrated herself to be nothing more than a caricature of the modern, strong female politician. She's made far too many mistakes to be considered viable in any national race after this. She's become, for all intents and purposes, nothing more than a cartoon character.

I think that her most vocal media supporters are simply wishing for this race to end so they can stop defending her with with twists and turns in logic that even they know are just too absurd to swallow.

Chances are, she's not going to win even her gubernatorial re-election campaign when that finally comes around. The finally GOP realizes (but won't say aloud) what we've been saying all along-- "Sarah Palin-- WTF were we/they thinking?"