[snarkytart]

She’s going to Washington DC, so no worry about Alaska.

[Russ]

She isn’t going back to Alaska for any longer than it takes to pack her bags for Washington in January.

[TexasCajun]

We badly needed a new face & voice for Conservatism and we've found it!

[steve-b]

causing one to observe later that she was evolving

How can a creationist evolve?

[littlehouse36]

-- in two short months, Sarah Palin has made it hard to imagine politics without her.

[Cedric]

This is another in a seemingly endless procession of Divide & Conquer, vote suppression articles.

Shame on anyone here carrying a gasoline can.

[dead]

Just recently she was the cause of a great new contribution to our political vocabulary -- "gone rogue."

That expression has been around for centuries. I believe its origins come from elephants (interestingly, not ironically.)

[PjhCPA]

My wife saw on CBS news last night they asked Sarah if she was going to run for President if they lost next week. Here answer: “I'm not doing this all for naugth.”

[supremedoctrine]

Hitchens said that? He always was such a mixed bag.
He’s either 100% right or 100% wrong.
And as he now seems to be in the “wrong” mode.
I can’t help
but thinking back not that long ago, at the beginning of the Dem primaries, that he actually touted none other than John Edwards, citing one of Edwards’ probably bogus trial lawyer mega-settlements with some manufacturer who only had to invest another few cents in a better screw, or somesuch nonsense, to have helped save the life of a drowned infant. I have never heard anyone remind Hitchens of this. And NOW, with his tedious antireligious stance, he is more than ever in the Bill Maher camp.

[GBA]

More high school BS and again, I'm not buying. Biden gets a free pass the few times he steps out from behind his handlers and commits yet another bidenism while the msm does all it can to keep the $150,000 clothes bill and her hair style on the front page. If she's a millstone around anyone's neck, it isn't John McCain's, it's the msm's.

I don't think women are fooled and can see through this for the attack on women it really is. I also hope American women are keeping track of who is saying what and are making a list. The sponsors need to remember who does most of the shopping in America.

[stocksthatgoup]

So are you are real conservative or an Obama plant (troll) trying to dispirit Republican & Conservative turnout?

[lonestar]

Christopher Hitchens calls her "a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus"

Well, isn't that special!...coming from an anti-religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus?"

[NeoCaveman]

Sarah Palin has made it hard to imagine politics without her.

I never want to know what that would be like.

[denydenydeny]

If Palin had made the "J-O-B-S" gaffe, we would never hear the end of it. She is demonstrably smarter (to say nothing of more humble) than Biden.

And yet the media insists, demands that we not believe our lying eyes.

[Peter Horry]

Durn, I hoped they meant that in a good way, then I saw where it was from. What is this “news god” of which they speak, does he have horns and cloven feet?

[NavyCanDo]

The PI’s headline implies Obama has already won. Not so. Got news for the writer. Sarah may not be going anywhere but to D.C. for the next 4-8 years.

[ZULU]

The leftists are getting their long knives sharpened in advance for 2012.

Instead of blaming Jorge El Segundo and McCain, in the event McCain loses, they are preparing to blame McCain's loss - if he loses, on Palin to stop her from running successfully in 2012.

That is what is MOST dangerous about an Obama victory. It will give the demons in the media left the opportunity to have succeeded in selecting the two candidates they wanted most to run for office: McCain and Obama. And they will try it again. Nothing succeeds like success.

Conservatives should close ranks after the election - regardless of teh outcome and refuse to allow the media to Bork and Quayle a great Conservative and courageous American - Sarah Palin.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

If McCain loses. which I think he will win.

But if so. We have not seen the last of Sarah Louise Heath Palin.

She has a voice that makes people stop and listen. She will use the media to her advantage. She will run against Obama the same way Barry Goldwater planned on running against Jack Kennedy.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Every time I see Governor Palin on TV, alone or with her family, I cheer and yell at the TV “God bless you real good, Miss Sarah!” She is for-real, regular people, and the type of person I could easily see living our neighborhood with her family. If she runs in 2012, I will crawl over broken glass to vote for her.

[pepsi_junkie]

We haven't even finished the longest, most grueling presidential race in our history and already we're talking about the next one. Palin in '12. And why not? The right wing of the Republican Party, the only wing that counts -- at least until next Tuesday, loves her so she has a ready-made base.

Give me a break! Every election the squishy moderate side of the party comes forth and announces that the only way to win is to be more "centrist" and ever since Reagan they've been winning. Some examples where conservatives were ignored, the party suffered:

• Did conservatives think "power sharing" in the senate was a good idea? Nope but Trent Lott did and so we got it and the Dems used it as a platform to beat up conservatives!
• Did conservatives think raising taxes under Bush 40 was a good idea? Nope but we got it anyway and then Dems used it to beat up Bush!
• Did conservatives think massive spending was a good idea for George W Bush? Nope but we got it anyway in the name of "compassionate conservatism" and now the Dems are using it to beat Bush, McCain, etc.
• Did conservatives think it was a good idea to pander to the illegal immigrant community by offering up an amnesty plan? Nope, but McCain and Bush joined with Keenedy and the dems to do it anyway and now the Dems are getting more of the latino vote than the GOP. Expect that trend to accelerate when the dems finally get their amnesty program.

I could go on but for 25 years the GOP has been taking conservatives for granted and chasing the moderate vote with liberal policies. The only time that was turned back was when Newt came up with the conservative Contract with America. But when the heat got turned up the moderates dumped Newt and went back to their fruitless effort to out liberal the democrats.

If the ultimate moderate in the GOP loses the election, you can bet that the intelligentsia at the top of the party will say "I got a fever, and the only prescription is more liberalism from our party!" and they'll get it most likely.