My prediction; If Sarah Palin isn't the Republican nominee, she'll retire from politics and return to Alaska. Unlike the others who seek the nomination, Sarah is running for the good of the country. She has a calling to serve and not to seek power. If this weren't true, she wouldn't have been willing to resign as governor of Alaska.
And some are put-off by her style, yet fail to see she's right on so many issues, in her 'own' way. She's Alaska, not Harvard, what's not to like?
My main reason for posting (not to you specifically) was to relate how we got into this mess by electing a RINO in Bush twice. He beat the marxists he ran against, but was no conservative. Republican control of both houses did nothing to turn America away from socialist policies in place for over 50 years and deficits in particular (wars can do that).
The recent election revealed some in D.C., both politicians and pundits, with a RINO pedigree not known before. Rove, Krauthammer, and others no longer get an ideological pass with me. To think, these guys and their soul mates have been integral players in Republican politics all these years suggests that the problem with this "two" party system may be that there really haven't been 'two' parties at all.
Sarah is that "other" party that scares them.