As many news sources are reporting, Sarah "The Quitternator" Palin has generously offered her services as the GOP Presidential candidate in 2012 "if there is nobody else to do it." Once again, the grizzly Mama puts her country first.
This new demonstration of altruism (did you know you can see Russia from Altruism?) apparently was provided by Palin as an exclusive not to Fox News (which pays her a multimillion-dollar salary, also known as alternative-self-funding-of-campaign, as a news commentator), but to that bastion of journalism, "Entertainment Tonight." In a soon-to-be-aired interview with ET host Mary Hart, Palin demonstrates either a fine command of the royal We or multiple personality disorder:
"If there's nobody else to do it, then of course I would believe that we should do this," Sarah tells Mary, leaving the door wide open for a 2012 run, while also noting that if it turns out there are candidates "who can do the job," they would have her full support.
And what would such a candidate need to show? Palin's criteria: "that common sense, conservative, pro-Constitution passion."
This may be harder than it seems, since the vast majority of the conservatives on the public political scene who show the "pro-Constitution passion" that has driven Palin to endorsements (Christine O'Donnell, Stephen Broden) have shown a wholesale lack of common sense. But then, so has Palin herself, so perhaps she's using an alternate definition of "common sense" to go along with the alternate version of the Constitution that she and her fellow Tea Party pols have been reading.
In any event, Palin has plenty of time to devote to her epic search to find anyone else to run for President, so she doesn't have to. After all, she quit her day job last year; what else does she have to do with her day?