Now that the FBI has announced it is not investigating Palin, I suspect more than I did prior to the FBI announcement there is a huge scandal looming.

Since I’m not a pundit or political operative I know you aren’t referring to my column as bleating and blathering. However, on the off chance it influenced you when you wrote this I want to make clear that when I wrote this I didn’t mean to suggest she has a realistic strategy. 

She’s running. You betcha. I heard her come close to saying it outright today. I wasn’t drunk and I assure you I’m not delusional. Gov. Sarah Palin all but announced her bid for the Republican nomination for 2012.

Far from it. If she aspires to be president this is based on her own narcissism.

I agree with what you wrote. I would add to your impression of her announcement that it came from someone who will NEVER be qualified for national office. No amount of study and experience can change the hard wiring in her brain.

We should be so lucky that she will fade into obscurity.

Re: Nicholas H’s comment

I believe the FBI stated the truth as far as it went. The FBI didn’t deny handing the case over to state officials. They didn’t say they hadn’t compiled evidence, nor did they deny cooperating with state law enforcement officials. 

If my understanding is correct, if both state and federal law is violated there is discretion allowed as to which level it is investigated and prosecuted at.

If publishers are willing to pay her millions….the lecture circuit is willing to pay her tens of thousands for a one hour babble session, then surely our voters, who 1 in 3 can’t name the 3 branches of government…will see her as a media battered woman who is the Patriot’s Patriot…well, the fame and notoriety will feed her ego to the point that one day she’ll no longer be able to contain herself and seek a public office somewhere between the House and President.

She’s a loon alright…but somebody is buying loonyism by the bucket full…and add to the bucket about 50 million other loons who was elated to have her run with McCain…and voted for them.

1. The whorehouse, divided into two floors, one floor full of cheap whores and the other full of fewer but more expensive whores, which passes legislation written by MIC-lobbyists forward to the pimp’s house.

2. The pimp who signs MIC-written legislation forwarded from the whorehouse into law, and enforces that law if or when he feels like it.

3. The 9-member Greek chorus which interprets laws in favor of the MIC.

Kent Shaw

She’s bright enough and attractive enough, but she has no real depth and no real interest in learning; she has certitude and faith in a vague libertarian/conservative fantasy.

She’s glib and smart enough to learn a few debating tricks; add a few feel-good, quasi-patriotic buzz words and you have something that sounds like a speech: false populism and pandering to the religious right.

By all accounts she is narcissistic and vindictive. That’s just what this country needs: an American Caligula.

Man I love your post. Your description of congress had me LOL ing all over the place!

Never thoght for a minute that you were taken in by Palin.  I think I know you better than that.

Doug

On the other hand if you bestowed the title pundit or political operative on me I’d have to ask you for a raise….

What I find kind of amusing is that with all the serious news the only thing that competed with TV coverage of  Sarah Palin and Michael Jackson today was President Obama and President Dmitri A. Medvedev.

They provide amusement for us columnists and hopefully our readers, but we aren’t taking either of them seriously.

Hal

First of all, she is raking in the bucks with SarahPAC. Other than a campaign, what can that money be used for?

Secondly, which is worse – someone who resigns from their elected position to run for another office or someone who takes a leave of absence while on the campaign trail while still collecting a paycheck for a job they aren’t doing? The latter is the norm.

I do not support her in any way, but I can see this as the beginning of her egomaniacal climb to national office. I almost suspect that someone is advising her (shades of Rove or Cheney, perhaps?)

With Romney as her main GOP competitor, and his ability to draw millions from devout Mormons worldwide, she would need to start now raising funds.

And, if Pres. Obama’s attempts to salvage the economy haven’t born fruit by 2012, there’s a very good chance that the people will elect whoever opposes him. And, if she gets the nomination, guess who that would be?

So, I don’t think we can rule her out. She may not be the brightest bulb in the box, but she does have a certain shrewdness (deviousness?) about her that can’t completely be ignored.

But, quite honestly, I am hoping for a scandal of major proportions to knock her out of the running. Until that happens, though, the prospects are frightening.

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“There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.” ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

If the American public can reelect George W. Bush in 2004, the American people can elect Palin in 2012. H.L. Menken had it right: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”