I can’t stand this idea being bantied about. Washington is a cesspool. You have to be a liberal golden child ala Obama not to be tainted.

Sarah Palin “the Washington insider” will not work. The general public does not understand omnibus bills and the legislative process or lobbying. Senators make lousy candidates because voting records and associations are too difficult to explain. Only liberals like Obama can get away with it. No Republican will get the same pass.

The press and Hollywood will use Sarah in the Senate to eat her up daily. She must stay fresh and out of the fray. Her quirky, down home, outsider image is a big part of her appeal.

One senator in a minority party is not going to make a difference anyway especially if Republicans already have the seat. The Dems wont alow her to have one once of success in the Senate. If her name is attached to a Bill they will kill it. They will trivialize and marginalize her.

Horrible. Horrible. Horrible idea. Only if it appears she has no shot at the Presidency and a waning public voice should she jump in the Senate.

This is Lisa Murkowski trying to save her Senate seat from her most formidable potential foe, but her strategy here makes no sense.

Why would she even give Gov. Palin the idea of running against her at this point? It makes her look weak and vulnerable. If Gov. Palin doesn’t take her on, now, for sure, several other strong challengers will. She’s a product of the Alaska political game who only has her seat because her daddy gave it to her. This is cronyism at its apex, and the Honorable Senator knows it’s coming home to roost in a couple of years.

If I were her, I’d make nice with Sarah and try to get her on the team rather than antagonizing the phenom.

But, I guess that’s not what daddy told her to do.

As for Sarah jumping in the Senate, I’d agree it’s probably not her best chance for success later. Her best bet would be to travel the country, raise a lot of money for federal and state candidates, travel the world, strengthen her creds in national and foreign affairs, give speech after speech on what American can and should be, gather a strong inner circle talented enough to project her and her vision to a national audience (i.e. no turkey massacre backdrops) and even write a book on her vision for America.

To run on her own, she’ll need to beef up her bona fides, and now’s the time to start.

I’d offer one other piece of advice – don’t succumb to the necessity of running in 2012 if Obama looks strong or she’s not ready. Better to wait 4 more, continue making Alaska an example for the nation in competent, conservative government, rather than running out of a sense of obligation only to be thoroughly trounced. You’re only 44 – you’ve got time.

For Palin to ever run for a Senate seat would be the end of Palin for President. She is so very popular right now as she is not a Washington insider. Palin needs to stay in her role as Governor of Alaska, help with conservative campaigns, and continue to keep her approval ratings up in Alaska.

The article just seems to be trying to pick a fight where none exists. Palin would not ever stoop to the level of cat fighting with Murkowski. Palin is already way ahead of the Senator.

She’s had good publicity for her campaigning for Chambliss, and has been in the news. The Liberal Politico and I suspect you will see other MSM’s feel the need to stay on top of Palin bashing. They cannot allow her to gain any more steam, so they just create more and more bizarre stories to try to discredit her. They will never succeed.

The only way to get foreign policy “experience” is to be President or Secretary of State. Most of the most experienced as per beltway definition get most issues wrong. What matters are values and priciples and lessons learned from history. That can be discerned from any where.

was a show of “Republican Solidarity” with Sarah Palin.

We’ll see; she has a State to run now. It was on autopilot in policy terms and we had money coming out our ears for her first two sessions. Now she has to deal with the essential fact of Alaska politics in tight budget times: somebody getting something means somebody else doesn’t. That’s one thing when there’s lots of money and you can make a “budget restraint” headline and talking point by cutting a few projects in districts that didn’t support you anyway. It’s another thing when you have to tell somebody who supported you that they can’t have something they want. They often don’t take it well.

a cat fight….I would hope both women ignore the desires of the idiots who run the politico and other MSM….hint hint they are not run by women!

Really just so pathetic….this woman Sarah is beloved in the base of this party and these liberals would rather continue to trash her than to revel in their victory with The Messiah!

Well said. Lisa Murkowski is now the senior senator from Alaska and regardless of how she got there Gov Palin will need her support in Washington to get the pipeline and the other items done that she needs. A senate primary battle is the last thing I think the republican party needs right now. Gov Palin and Murkowski could become great allies. She needs to end the speculation now.

the best known Democrat in the State who had the backing of the whole Democrat establishment in the Country.

I damn well didn’t like the appointment and it ruined the gubernatorial administration I was a part of, but when the time came, Lisa won her seat fair and square.

It doesn’t matter where Palin decides to go. She has to show that she can throw a punch. Republicans are craving someone who can fire it right back at the libs and the press. If Palin shows she can do that without even trying, she will be a force to be to be recogned with. We know she can take it, now she has to show she can dish it out with a smile.

Sarah Palin is not going to run for the Senate this idea is too stupid for words.

It’s beneath her, she won’t do it. She will run for re-election in 2010 and win, then, baring what happens to this country, she will run for President. She basically has the GOP nomination in the bag. Sarah doesn’t belong in the senate, the only thing people learn from going to the senate is how to become corrupt. The Senate seat is beneath Sarah, what is Lisa so worried about, she deserves some credit, she got the job the hard way, her daddy gave it to her. Now THAT is what a call earning a living the old fashion way

Palin needs to use her celebrity to stake out policcy positions…not to fight the old battles of 2008. The way back for the Republicans is to take a policy position and wait for the electorate to come to them.

Voter turn out in 2008 was much lower than expectation because neither candidate appealed to the true conservative voters. Who are they? Those that work and think the political/economic system uses them… Nearly everybody that depends on W-2 income.

Conservatism and Republicans need to be defined as a Limited Government Party. Right now, no one knows what Republicans and conservatives stand for.

Will be to help Alaska weather the deep recessions that will surely affect most of the lower 48 states. As we all know, the effects of the recession and struggling economy will generate deep budget deficits due to decreased revenue.

States like VA, that are now blue will experience deep pain through the considerable increase in taxes that are coming as we speak through the counties especially Prince William.

If Sarah Palin can run her state and keep the state’s budget in the black through the desperate period we are about to enter, that will prove to be much more of a political accomplishment than anything that she will ever be able to do in the U.S. Senate. Also in the Senate, she would most likely will be relegated to the corner by the Democrat majority.

As I stated previously, VA has been run now by two so-called “fiscal conservatives” which with the Democrat and RINOs in the VA Legislature and Senate including the big-tax and spenders in NOVA counties will raise taxes considerably as a panacea to cure the budget shortfalls. God forbid they try running on a realistic budget instead of spending everything in sight and being truely a fiscal conservative. If Sarah can contrast herself with the way VA and the federal is currently being run by keeping her state in the black through fiscal responsibility, she may have a considerable edge in the 2012.

Sarah Palins best chance is through Senate for a number of reasons. 1st is exposure which she will not get being in Alaska unless she spends too much time away from current job. Next is the question of national media.She needs to get used them and lastly she needs to learn more. I cannot believe she couldn’t name one USSC decsion she disagreed with other than Roe v Wade. What about the Kelo Case ?

as long as it gets her to the White House in ’12. My gut instinct is that she’d be better served keeping the Governor’s chair for another term and showing the nation exactly how effective a Conservative Executive she really is. However there would be several major advantages to going to Washington. The first is that by having a couple of years of exposure to the MSM up close her obvious intelligence and charisma would show through and they’d no longer be able to cast her in the role of the rube from the provinces. The second is that Senate Republicans need the kind of leadership she can provide in the fight against the Obamessiah’s charge to nationalize and socialize our entire economy. Conservative voters and even moderates who will by that time be completely sick of the Democrat Congress will appreciate it. The third reason why it’s not a bad idea is that the Obamessiah showed us that it’s possible to spend a couple of years in the Senate without leaving any kind of legislative tracks that can trip you up in an election. A long career there makes that unavoidable but if the Senate is used only as a brief stepping stone it can’t hurt.