[Fiji Hill]

she told Fox Business host Eric Bolling that she still has the fire in her belly and is still game to run for office.

If that's so, then she should throw her ushanka into the ring. She will have more credibility if she survives being tested in what Richard Nixon called "the fire of the primaries" than if she backed into the nomination as a result of a brokered deal.

[Argus]

I think Palin was already tested in the fire of an actual general election campaign four years ago. Tougher than any primary.

[throwback]

True. She seems to be getting a lot of air time lately, and I don't get why exactly. I've heard people credit her with Newt's surge in SC. Yet if you noticed the sequence, she didn't lean in to Newt till after his first debate where Newt had already begun to turn SC on his own. Then Newt fell down going into Florida yet you'd assume the Palin mojo would still have been operative.

[Jim Noble]

The primaries are worthless as a way to choose a candidate.

They should either be abolished, or their role severely curtailed.