[upsdriver]

I am very strongly for Governor Palin the person, except that I think her chance of avoiding becoming one of the pod people in DC once elected is just about zero.

On what do you base that assumption? Palin as councilwoman, mayor and governor hasn't let the trappings of office affect her.

[altair]

On what do you base that assumption? Palin as councilwoman, mayor and governor hasn't let the trappings of office affect her.

It's not the trappings of the office that's the problem[1]. It's the other people in the beltway. Mr. Newt got lost. Andrea Seastrand got lost.

Mr. Newt had a golden opportunity to reform our government to something closer to what it should be. The Contract with America had its flaws (don't get me started about term limits), but overall was absolutely going in the right direction.

The two single biggest reforms we could make right now are:

1. Mandatory sunset clauses on all legislation, past and present. If a law isn't good enough or popular enough to be voted every few years, it's bad law.
2. Require legislators to pass a written test on the contents of proposed legislation before they are allowed to vote YEA. Is that really a radical idea?

Before we can do that, most of the beltway will have to be purged and it isn't going to happen. You can't vote out of office unelected bureaucracy.

There are millions of them and only one of her and I deem her survival odds negligible.

[1] Unless you're as feeble minded as a Barak Obama.