Queen bee or Kingmaker?

Posted July 5, 2009 at 12:30 PM

http://exurbanleague.com/2009/07/05/not-queen-bee-but-rather-the-kingmaker.aspx?re...

I agree with all of those who say Sarah Palin is done for 2012: You can't pull a stunt like this and expect the media to forgive you, especially the same media that spent all year last year trying to tear you down.

I didn't think she had a shot at 2012 anyways: The hatred of Sarah Palin with the halls of liberal power is far too palpable and ferocious for her to overcome, no matter how plucky and resourceful she is. However, she could still play an important role in 2012 by endorsing and campaigning for a candidate early on in the 2012 campaign and/or becoming the next Jack Kemp/Newt Gingrinch of the GOP.

If Tim Pawlenty or Mitt Romney picked up Palin's endorsement right from the start of the campaign, it would immediately cement their support among the GOP base and effectively cut off any chance of a Huckabee nomination. Palin's nomination re-invigorated McCain's with the GOP base last year: Imagine what would happen if that energy were present from the start of the Presidential campaign season. The Romney campaign should be on the Plain's doorstep the minute her resignation becomes effective with a customized Remington M700 in one hand and the keys to a tricked-out Arctic Cat in the other (chocolate and roses don't cut it with a family who's into snowmobiling and moose-hunting).

Palin also has the chance to be the voice of one crying in the wilderness for today's GOP, much like Kemp was for Reagan and Gingrich was for the '94 Congress. Kemp showed the world that you could be a free-enterprise capitalist and still care for your fellow man, and Gingrich stood astride the Clintonian "Third Way" in Congress and yelled "STOP!".

Palin may never be President. But that doesn't mean she won't be the most powerful woman inside the GOP.

On the other hand, Palin's former campaign manager isn't giving up on her chances for 2012:

*So you don't think she's done with politics--that she's just throwing in the towel? *

Absolutely no way in hell. Hell will freeze over before that happens. She’s like a bloodhound. Once she gets the scent, she's never going to let it go. She gets what she wants or dies trying. She wants to be president now that she has a following.

Either way, Sarah Palin has managed to inject herself into the limelight for yet another news cycle. Not bad for a know-nothing housewife from the middle of nowhere...