And if the stain (or little tin god, if you prefer) makes no huge errors in judgement or performance (and they would have to be much much bigger than the healthcare travesty or the Lybian error), the stain will not get beaten in 2012 by any of the cast of characters now in evidence in the rino/repub/indep/conserv group.
And I absolutely hate stating that....
All Palin has to do during the debate is look the camera in the eye, and say, "Remember four years ago, when you had a house and a job and could afford the gas for a real car?"
Case closed.