President Palin

It could happen.  She wants it.  She wants it more than anything.  I know a lot of people say she is just in it for the publicity, why should she want to be president when she’s making lots of money selling her books and having a reality TV show and giving speeches, but I think she wants it.  It’s her raison d’etre.  It’s what pushed her to compete for Miss Alaska (possibly still her most searing disappointment – not only did she lose, she lost to a black woman) and it’s what pushed her to run for Governor of Alaska.  She wasn’t concerned about governing Alaska.  She likes to win.  It’s no different from a basketball game.

She Likes to Win

And the presidency is the top prize.  She was asked recently if she would run and she said if no other Republicans would step forward, she would run.  That’s a yes.  Because of course she knows that dozens of Republicans will step forward.  The field is shattered.  She has more name recognition than any of them and a stronger, more fanatical base than Romney, Huckabee, Jindal or any of those guys.  Heck, her base may even propel Bristol to victory in Dancing With the Stars and, if they can do that, maybe they can do anything.

I know the conventional wisdom on the left is that this would be a good thing for Obama because there’s no way she could win.  That’s dangerous thinking.  That’s playing with a loaded gun, that’s riding a bicycle on the freeway, that’s going out driving to look for tornadoes.

The American people just proved, a couple of weeks ago, again, that there is absolutely no bottom limit to their stupidity.  In a majority of congressional districts across the country, they voted to return to power the very same people who cause the economic mess we are in.

The idea of Sarah Palin as president is a nightmare.  But it is a very real possibility.