There’s no way this will propel her to the WH in 2012 and anyone who really thinks that is seriously delusional IMHO.
Look she earned my respect too but she was elected to do a job and she’s abandoning it. It’s not going to get any easier for her (or her family) if she tries to get back in the ring.
Politics is a dirty nasty business but you know that when you step into the arena.
“There’s no way this will propel her to the WH in 2012 and anyone who really thinks that is seriously delusional IMHO.”
We shall see, won’t we.
How is she "abandoning" her job when she can't do it thanks to the ethics probes? She should just keep fighting them and waste even more tax dollars? By then in 2010 they'll just say "scandal-plagued Governor of Alaska". She has nothing to lose by stepping down and handing the state over to someone else.
The economy is cyclical. If the economy recovers (or head-fakes a recovery), Obama will be extremely tough to dethrone in 2012.
On the other hand, if inflation kicks in and the recovery still looks a long way off, or Obama hoses up any number of other things, a Republican will sail into office.
At Palin’s age, she could easily hold out and run in 2016. If a Republican were to win in 2012, she could be the follow-on in 2020. She’d only be 56...probably still looking great and she’d have all this time to get educated and polished on all the issues.