I’m easing back into things here, so I figured I’d start with some real fluff, and what’s fluffier than Sarah Palin? Talking Points is reporting that there are mixed signs about her intentions, but that there are indications that she will throw her bonnet into the ring come September. Personally, I hope she runs, and I think she will. For a number of Republicans, running for President has nothing to do with actually wanting to be President-it’s a money making move. Sarah has found, in recent months, that even the idiot media can in fact get enough of her if she’s not in the game. Her shelf life has nearly expired and the only way to reinvigorate it is for her to get back in the mix. She can keep her brand in the black for years after the next election, because after she loses she can play the victim of the media, the Democrats, and the Republican establishment, which she can blame for denying her the nomination she doesn’t really want. She could potentially grift for at least four more years nursing that grievance, and go out with an avalanche of cash in 2012 by going the distance as a third party candidate. If she doesn’t get back in the game she’ll just be another Christine O’Donnell, reduced to walking off of a TV set just to generate some short term buzz.
For my own part, I’d just love to watch the Palin-Bachmann battles, as they fight over the same turf. Bachmann may actually want to win, making her the more vulnerable of the two, as Sarah can stick to nothing but raw meat for the right wing yahoos, while Bachmann will be forced to trim her sails a bit, against the off chance that the Republican party will actually nominate her.
All of which would make the Republican party like a club for the insane, which, come to think of it, it is.
I’ll say it again: Obama is the luckiest guy in the world. No one with the sad record he has put together should be the favorite at this point, but he still is. If he were allowed to pick his opponents, he couldn’t have done better.
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