I'm so glad someone caught a photo of the wink.

Keeping her high profile is a great strategy for Democrats!

I think it is good for democrats, to be honest. It makes the people who love her just love her more, but it's not winning her any new fans, and it gives people who might have had the benefit of the doubt about her because she was a woman (don't make me use the acronym) a bit more insight into just how messed up she is.

But really, unless there is a major shift in the GOP in the next four years, she won't win the primary. If Huckabee, who has a very similar platform and is far more likable, didn't win, I don't see how she can. I don't think the religious right is as large of a deciding factor as they had both hoped.

However, I do see her having the ego to go it alone and run as a third party candidate in 2012 if rejected by the GOP. And well, that would be just icing on the crazy cake.

Of all the candidates the GOP could have put forward in 2008, John McCain was my favorite because he's not crazy. I think and hope they'll be able to find someone else who isn't crazy for 2012.

I'm not sure if I think keeping her high-profile is good strategy for Democrats. One of the few things Republicans have going for them these days is a sort of 'Democrats think they're better than you' thing. The anti-education, anti-expert, anti-science, anti-city--that thing. I think it's hard to talk about Palin without playing in to all that stuff.

yeah, but that's just what she did on the trail and it flopped. Being anti-city doesn't help when the majority of the country lives in or adjacent to a city. It may have worked years ago, but we're not a rural nation anymore, by any stretch. I think the majority of republicans by now are conservative suburbanites, and most of them still want their kids to go to college.

Stewriffic, it looks like a photoshop distortion, doesn't it? Like mashing up two people's faces.

As someone said somewhere recently, Mitch Daniels or someone like him would be the best bet for the GOP -- if they dare take someone so ... sane. They probably won't, though, because the party is getting so fringe-y and ideological that the necessary moderate voters won't show up to vote.

I have a hunch it's going to be Romney (despite the evangelicals), but a lot can happen the next few years.

I was watching Fox for a few minutes on the treadmill TV at the Y this morning and they had a segment on called, "Palin Bashing". All three of the "news" people agreed very vigorously that the Vanity Fair piece was just full of mean spirited lies and everyone was just jealous of Sarah.

Too lazy to back this up on the blue, but Eric Cantor seems sane and is worth keeping an eye on. I wouldn't be surprised if he gave it a warm up run in 2012.