Now surely you don’t mean to imply that Biff and Buffy over at the RNC aren’t doing a great job? :>)

she’ll probably never be president.

Although others may have thought so or said so, I haven’t seen any write it here before. I think you’re right. But you were probably right even before her recent resignation announcement. McCain pulled her onto the national stage before her time, possibly destroying any real chance she might have had in four or eight more years. Besides that, hardly anybody will ever be President, so she really isn’t that different from Tommy Thompson, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, or Bob Dole–they all had lots more experience than she has, and they were either eliminated in the primaries or lost to a much less experienced opponent. Not every politician even wants to be President.

She may well agree with me, and her intentions may be to become a representative of conservative ideas and supporter of other conservatives, not a Presidential candidate herself.

Or, she may think that she’s more like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama than she is like Bob Dole and John McCain, and in some respects that is true, too. Obviously, so I won’t belabor the point.

What we all should acknowledge is that the “free press” and its free support of any Democrat is the monkey wrench in the works. Democrats who are clearly “inappropriate” get elected, while clean conservatives are trashed and thrown away. Bush barely overcame the handicap; Obama used it expertly.

Here is a guess from me: IF she is planning to run for President, it’s in 2008 (just a guess based on the resignation timing). She will spend some time in seclusion, writing her book and boning up on international affairs (no pun intended) and sharpening her knowledge of history, national issues and economics.

Only then will she begin speaking about those subjects, making it clear what her positions are and why the Democrats’ positions are wrong. She will hammer Democrats on every inconsistency in their performances, everything they’ve done wrong, everything they’ve switched positions on, everything they’ve lied about. She’ll eschew her own personal story in favor of her personal and public charisma and powerful ideas. She’ll be able to make a series of speeches, each one on a specific issue, rather than each one having to cover the whole field.

Her interaction with the press will be limited to press conference Q and A’s on specific topics, not half-hour or longer one-on-one interviews. She’ll take her message to America in new ways that bypass the filter of the SCUM. If she can carry it off, she will be nominated and probably elected if she continues to promote conservative ideas forcefully and without equivocation.

If she does this, the fact that she resigned as Governor of Alaska will be meaningless to voters. They’ll recognize it as a politician positioning for an attack, and they’ll appreciate that it was a necessary move, because without it she’d have been tied up in Alaska, swatting flies.

OTOH, if she follows almost any other path, she won’t be able to overcome the “novice, not-ready-for-prime-time” label.

And you are right, “Most people don’t pay close enough attention to politics to understand her reasoning,” in fact they don’t pay enough attention to even be aware of the atrocities of the Obama administration–GM, Chrysler, trillions of dollars of overspending or to know much about Sarah Palin eiher way. In fact, most of them probably couldn’t tell you that a trillion dollars is a million dollars, a million times. So for a whole lot of people, the next time they hear a speech by Sarah Palin will be the first time they hear a speech by Sarah Palin. She still has plenty of opportunity to move forward on the national scene.

but I am dropping it and don’t want to have hard feelings with you.

Most people don’t pay close enough attention to politics to understand her reasoning, regardless of how good it may be. It will be easier for David Axelrod to call her a “quitter” who “folded under pressure” than for Sarah to convince the masses why she quit the governorship. Heck, he’s probably already written a few rough drafts for campaign commercials should she challenge him in 2012.

Of course, I could be wrong. I actually thought the American people would never elect an empty suit socialist with no experience. I haven’t trusted my judgement since.

I’m glad to see you’re not among them.

I actually fired this off after a half a cup, it was really a rant out of frustration…I like Romney, he’s surfin buddies with my boy Rohrbacher….I’m still not sure if I trust him like I do Sarah……..nevermind….I’m sure I don’t

Her talents can be used by the party in other ways.