[excopconservative]

How would a crafty intelligent person start an Independent run at the White House? First, you have to establish yourself as the standard-bearer for the anti-Obama voter.

Second, you have to discredit the supposed opposition to Obama as ineffectual and enabling. Since such a person would understand that the Republicans have no intention of doing anything to stop Obama, challenging them to act would be a safe bet.

Third, you have to demonstrate how Obama has hurt the working man and woman With Palin’s recent salvo, she is accomplishing all three. She is setting the stage, placing the players in fixed positions in their respective corners and she will be free to roam the set aiming in both directions simultaneously. Look for lots more to come.

[Mariner]

"How would a crafty intelligent person start an Independent run at the White House?"

I've been thinking the same thing. Palin knows the weak, pussy-assed GOP will do nothing and that Conservative are looking for an excuse to leave the Gutless Old Party. She also understands that BRAND is tarnished beyond recovery.

She's counting heads for a 3-man race and she intends to win a 35-40% plurality.

[MacNaughton]

Where would Saracuddah raise the $$$ necessary for a competitive run at the Dems and GOPe? She seems to me to be outside of the GOP apparatus. She resigned her governorship to make $ that apparently she needed to fight off Dem lawsuits in AK. I don't pretend to be clairvoyant, but I just don't see the big donors lining up behind her. Things on the ground will certainly be different in a year's time.