Imagine: a youthful, attractive--and dare we say well-dressed--woman as the first female VP. One heartbeat away from the Presidency. If John McCain had been elected (God forbid), and if the excitement of the inaugural ball had proved so intense he keeled over and died (God double forbid), she would have been ready and able to take the wheel on January 20, 2009.
Before the election, and now even in the backwash of defeat, speculation grows about Palin as a serious candidate in 2012. (We're using the word "serious" twice on purpose.)
Why not? She's popular, populist, an anti-elitist (a hockey mom who gets her clothes at a consignment shop!), and anti-intellectual. She's not ivory tower, she's Ivory Soap.
Please. Please stop.
Our intelligence had been taking a break, tryng to heal from the bruising repetitive insults suffered during the GOP campaign. But like the Bataan Death March, we find no succor, no respite...and must trudge on.
Here's what Palin said in an interview yesterday on Fox News, as reported by the AP in Palin blames Bush policies for GOP defeat:
"I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door."And we're like, OK, God, if Palin ever runs for national office and wins, this is what we'll always pray, we're like, don't let us miss New Zealand's open door immigration policy.
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