[libbylu]

Give it up. Vanity record today?

[Boiling Pots]

Screw history, look at Barack Obama.

Now, can we forget about 2012 and focus on 2010, please???

Sarah Palin should go back to Alaska, act as she were (low key, effective) and build a record of accomplishment.

[Perdogg]

You can see a pattern.

[Tarpon]

Sarah is Sarah, the losers on your list, who were they. She has a real job with real responsibilities. Unlike Obama and slo Joe.

When she decides, she will let us know.

[hercuroc]

If Sarah Palin were to run when she reaches Hillary's age the year would be 2024.

She's only 44 years old.

She has many years ahead of her in the running if she chooses.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

Well Palin lose a Lt. Gov race (which is kinda like a state VP) and then she won governor.

[ejonesie22]

On September 12, 2001 if someone told you that before the decade was out the American people would elect a President with a name like Barrack Hussein Obama, who had a Muslim father and was educated in a madras and raised in the Islamic tradition for a period of time, you would have said “no way!”

History and precedent seems to mean little now days.

[Blogger]

What were Palin’s changes of being a Female Vice Presidential candidate? Let’s see, would that be 2 in how many? There were 72 almost Vice Presidents and 46 Vice Presidents - so 2 in 118 odds??? Yet, she did it. Message in that.

[Fred]

STOP WITH THE PALIN CRAP ALREADY!!!! Is there some kind of freeper stalking Sarah Palin obsession going on here. Do we have a play misty for me going or what.



CHILL PILL TIME Y'ALL

[Chet 99]

This is kind of meaningless because most (all?) VP picks are obscure and are of little consequence to the campaign.

Presidential candidates are loath to pick a running-mate who might overshadow them. This is certainly the case with Obama picking Biden.

[Question Liberal Authority]

The road to the White House rarely pans out for any specific candidate. A decent historian could probably name at least 1,000 people off the top of their head who were at one time or another considered to be a serious contender for the Presidency. At any given time, you could consider half the governors, dozens of Senators & Congress Critters, a dozen or so Mayors, and a handful of business leaders / celebrities / public figures.

Sarah Palin might not even want to run for president. She has a pretty sweet deal in Alaska. She'll always be a folk hero up there. In the meantime, she's on the list of contenders.

A big beef about Sarah was that she didn't have enough experience. 4 years from now, she'll have more experience. 8 years from now, she'll have even more than that.

[org.whodat]

Slim to none, she need to work on Ted’s seat!!

[woofie]

we ( Merican politics)tend to chew people up and spit em out

Why cant there be more comebacks like Nixon?

[SoConPubbie]

Give it up loser.

You backed a loser from the start, why would anyone listen to you?

[ripnbang]

Yeah and no Senator had become president since Kennedy. The funny thing about history...someone, or something will always be the “first”. Sarah has a fine chance of being the first and is exactly what the Repubs need to kick them in the tail IMHO.

[o2bfree]

If Palin can’t be POTUS, maybe she’ll be president of the Republic of Alaska.

[JoJo Gunn]

Norman Bloom, is that you?

[BillyBoy]

FDR is the lone losing VP candidate to buck the trend, as he made a comeback in 1932 (12 years later) and was elected President.

Sarah Palin has a long political future ahead of her. In 2020, she'll only be 56. She could possibly follow FDR's example, just as GHWB was the first sitting Vice President to be elected President since 1832 (Bush's victory occurred in 1988, 156 years after Martin Van Buren had done the same). She might even pull it off in 2012, if Obama becomes so politically toxic he's doomed in four years.

So while it's unlikely, never say never. I would argue that unlike recent losing VP nominees being a drag on the ticket (Edwards failed to even reducing the Dem's losing margin in his home state, LIEberman turned off alot of Democrats, etc.), Palin was a net positive for the ticket. Her home state candidates (Sen. Ted Stevens and Congressman Don Young) being saved from almost certain political extinction with her running atop the ticket is proof of that.

[nufsed]

Her chances are slim since apparently some republicans are already trying to undercut her reputation.

She's got two chances mouth piece for oil drilling in Alaska and get the public behind her. Or Stevens resigns and she goes to DC and gets something done.

[grey_whiskers]

Let's make SARAH PALIN the RNC Chair.

And what of Ronald Reagan, who ran for the Presidency and lost?