Figure the timing here.
The primary in Alaska is in August. You need about eight months to run a decent and pumped-up campaign. Senator Murkowski is a 2-star campaign player and won’t be able to stop Palin. So Palin steps in as senator and plays out her strategy until November 2015 when Palin resigns as senator and proceeds to run as President. The Republican governor naturally appoints himself as the senator and things get to be fairly interesting.
So forget the 2012 election...Palin isn’t going to waste effort on it. She has timed everything for 2016. And Murkowski? She’d best start planning to run for governor in 2016 and hope for a comeback then.
Huh? America will be a Marxist, totalitarian police state by 2015 if we don't take Zero out in 2012.
Or have you momentarily forgotten that there's a wannabe dictator in the White House?
We don't have seven years for Palin to take the Presidency. I'm convinced that she understands this too. I'm sure that this was one of the chief factors in her decision to vacate the Alaska Governorship now.
We have to move with all due haste, while there's still some semblance of a constitutional republic in which to do this.
I don’t see her running for the U.S. Senate. I’d have to check, but my guess is that incumbent governors have a much better track record in challenging incumbent senators than former governors do.
President is another story. The best way to run for President is to be unemployed. (Carter, Reagan, certainly, Obama showed up for very few votes during his campaign).