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As Sarah Palin continues to make political headlines, the mania surrounding her future and potential GOP presidential primary candidacy is heating up. Some think she'll start a conservative think tank, but many hope she runs for the highest office in the land. So would she make a good president or not? To answer this, we quizzed our large group of political insiders on whether she would make a good or bad president. Following are the 10 reasons Sarah Palin would make a good president.

I just hope that in November 2012 we will elect Sarah Palin as President!

On any trick-or-treat night, you can expect to see a bit of the unexpected. What the residents of tiny Dauphin borough didn't expect, though, was to find a fleet of TV cameras show up on their doorsteps, followed by two burly men wearing suits and earpieces, followed by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, her husband and their daughter. No, it wasn't Tina Fey or any other Palin impersonator. The Republican vice presidential candidate stopped in the blink-and-you'll-miss-it town off Route 322 on Friday night to take her daughter Piper out for candy. And none of the residents, not even the Borough...

By Shawn Steel CRP National Committeeman to the RNC October 4, 2008 Not since Ronald Reagan's final campaign rally at Orange County's Mile Square Park on the eve of the 1984 election, have thousands of Californian Republicans gathered. Neither Bush could do it. None of last year's Republican presidential candidates could fill the Home Depot Tennis Center. The Center has 13,000 court side seats. All those seats plus the suites were filled to capacity. Still thousands more were slowly streaming into the stadium quickly filled up the court yard. Thousands more found standing room around the rim of the stadium....

It's time. All three senators in the race should be back in Washington doing their jobs (for better or worse.)If McCain has any confidence in Palin, he should let her do her stuff. I'm willing to chance it. I think she'll do well. Can't do any worse than Biden.Go for it, John. Set her loose.

Exactly how broad is the reach of this online political earthquake known as Sarah Palin? Check out the numbers: More than 1.1 million people read the Alaska governor's Wikipedia article within the first 36 hours following her introduction as Sen. John McCain's running mate, according to the online metric site Compete.com. In fact, Palin's Wikipedia article clocked in as the most popular on the site in the month of August. Michael Phelps, the 14-time Olympic gold medalist, placed second. YouTube has been flooded with Palin videos -- some of them snarky and mean, others equally effusive and elated. Before her...

Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly believes GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has brought the most energy and enthusiasm to the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan. And polls among white women are indicating the Alaska governor has revitalized the GOP campaign among that demographic. Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly says she personally knows delegates who went to the Republican National Convention (RNC) last week not planning to vote for John McCain -- but after hearing Sarah Palin's speech, were "standing up on chairs cheering for the McCain-Palin ticket." "I think it is energy and excitement that we haven't had in years. It's...

The true extent to which Palin-mania has come to dominate the TV news cycle hit home for me last night as I flipped through the channels on the Palin campaign’s charter flight from Reno to Denver. Within a period of about a half hour, I caught the much-anticipated debut of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night,” as well as seperate Palin documentaries on MSNBC and CNN. Tina Fey was such a dead ringer for Palin that I was tempted to open the curtains that separate the governor and her staff from the media to make sure she was...

The media is trying to make hay that Palin did not know what the Bush Doctrine was. Wikipedia is not a great source, but it does provide a consensus of sorts that tells us what terms mean. According to Wikipedia: "The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was...

We've been through Obamamania. Now a new phenomenon is sweeping America – Palinmania. Even before Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska had appeared on the stage to introduce Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, the chant went up around the hall: "We want Sarah!" A tear rolled down the cheek of a middle-aged woman volunteer who moments earlier had been barking orders to keep the exits clear. A mother clutched the hand of her 11-year-old daughter, whose face was made up like a clown with stars and the letters P-A-L-I-N painted across her face. Outside, queues which began six hours...

** EXCERPT **>>snip<<So here are a few thoughts on Palinmania and how it has lifted McCain: 1. It's not just about Palin - it's about what McCain's picking her tells voters about McCain. Again and again, people in Lancaster praised him for his astuteness and his willingness to do something daring.2. Palin has been successfully presented as the ultimate outsider - and the more she's derided by the mainstream press, the more this helps McCain. He's reclaimed the "maverick" label, first given to him by the press.3. Palin exceeded expectations with her accomplished speech at the convention. Frankly, the media-driven...

Just listen to the crowd. I’ve honestly never seen anything like this for a conservative politician before. Update: Maverick by four, says Zogby. “Clearly, Palin is helping the McCain ticket.”