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I hope she runs, if for no other reason than to set the record straight about her. Let the chips fall where they may. She understands that 2012 will be about Obama's record and whether anyone is willing to stand up to him and draw the clear and stark distinctions.

Please, everyone, consider this:

Neither Obama nor his record are what the candidates we need should be running against. In this presidential shape-up most especially, it is fraught with danger because of the possibility, and it is a very real one, that Obama will be out of the race, and it will be someone else. I have no idea who -- only that it would be a very "attractive" liberal idiot. An idol.

Just think about that for a second.

If what I have recently read on non-conservative on-line forums like Yahoo news (always click on the "This post hidden because of negative reviews" posts!), ABC, and Los Angeles Times is authentic:

1. Little difference is perceived between Democrats and Republicans. They're all the same in essentials. Cynicism rules.

2. Obama is loathed by a large margin.

3. Liberalism, liberals, are the perceived bad guys. The word "liberal" as a derogatory term is thick, everywhere.

4. Commenters aim a lot of contempt and anger at the "press," the media, news reporters, for flaking out and shilling for Obama and liberalism.

THEREFORE: Obama is a symptom, not a cause, and if every focus is on drawing a distinction between Palin and Obama, and all the sudden Obama's not in the picture ... What then?

Can you imagine Romney in that spot? Or Huckabee? Or Obama or worse, the "dark horse" puppet in the wings, the sudden star of the Democrat party?

Obama is a symptom. LIBERALISM is the ailment.

Americans are begging, yearning, screaming, for a political alternative to liberalism. That alternative used to belong to the Republican party, as the foundation for its platform. Reagan rung bells all over American when he said: "Government does not hold the solution to our problems. Government is the problem."

That's what the Republican party must stand for and what the winning candidate will stand up for, and what the smart one should prepare for.

I hope she runs, too. It's nice to read your words because for the first time ever, yesterday, I found myself consciously realizing that I truly hope she runs. All along I've kind of been assuming it more than wishing for it.