Hmmm...did Lisa listen to the speech?
Or is this preemptive; with Lisa afraid that Sarah is going to be gunning for her Senate seat next year?
I don’t see that happening...
Figure the timing here.
The primary in Alaska is in August. You need about eight months to run a decent and pumped-up campaign. Senator Murkowski is a 2-star campaign player and won’t be able to stop Palin. So Palin steps in as senator and plays out her strategy until November 2015 when Palin resigns as senator and proceeds to run as President. The Republican governor naturally appoints himself as the senator and things get to be fairly interesting.
So forget the 2012 election...Palin isn’t going to waste effort on it. She has timed everything for 2016. And Murkowski? She’d best start planning to run for governor in 2016 and hope for a comeback then.