Palin's day isn't done. She might've tried her hand had she not run with McCain and finished a term or two as governor. 2016 or even 2020 isn't too far off.
There's a certain level of charisma required and that day will come even in the United States. I will say, we'd have been better off with Hillary than Obama and I'm thankful John McCain didn't win.
There are lots of men who run for president who haven't a hope in hell and many more who never run even if they were successful governors. I don't make much of the "glass ceiling" idea in 2011.
Bachmann's problem is she has no record of executive accomplishment. If she were running as governor or former governor of MN, say in Pawlenty's place, it'd have been another ballgame. It's good and healthy that she's running, however.
We may yet see another "historic" presidential ticket in 2012 but I expect Obama to be reelected.
Sarah’s greatest mistake was not seeing that the pubby establishment wanted to get her out of Alaskan power and diminish her while accompanying the McCain express train to oblivion. The establishment pubbies knew McStupid could not hope to beat the racist candidate who pushed Hillary to the side. They knew, the pubby establishment knew, that Barry bassturd was the inevitable winner, so they found a way to get rid of Sarah while watching the old fool from AZ drown in the oblivion he deserves. If you count yourself a Tea Party member, you must realize that makes you the enemy of the democrat criminal enterprise AND the establishment republican scum.
..or of that amount of ugly.