Sarah Palin nevers ceases to amaze me. When she first sprung on the national scene I just thought "What a joke."
It's no joke, my friends.
Lately, she snubbed Oprah in an obviously calculated political motivation and I can't tell you what that is but the important thing is she thinks she knows. Sarah Palin is for real and will be heard from in the eight years. She let it slip in that phony conversation she had with the Quebec comedy duo team posing as the French President.
TORONTO — Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday.
"Maybe in eight years," replies a laughing Palin.
The Republican vice presidential nominee discusses politics, the perils of hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney, and Sarkozy's "beautiful wife," in a recording of the six-minute call released Saturday and set to air Monday on a Quebec radio station.
Yes, "Maybe in eight years." What a forward thinker. I know she did not have any illusions at that point (November 1st or so), so she knew her and McCain were toast. And she knows the political terrain to know that unless President-elect Barack Obama totally screws up (he frankly doesn't know how to screw up that big), he will breeze to reelection in four years.
She helped her new-found friend, Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, who now owes her a political debt.
Sarah Theus blew her perfect attendance record at Porter Elementary to go Monday to see Sarah Palin in Perry.
The 11-year-old from Macon wore a hot pink "Sarah" headband that caught Palin's eye as she took the stage at a rally for Senator Saxby Chambliss on the eve of the run-off.
"Our candidate did not win the election but she won our hearts," said Sally Theus, Sarah's mother, who gave in to her daughter's begging to attend the rally.
And now the question is critical. I believe she is capable of winning the Republican nomination in eight years. the question is "Quayle or Reagan?"
WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin obviously retains national ambitions despite the pounding she took as the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008. If she does re-emerge, will she come back more like Dan Quayle or Ronald Reagan?
On its surface, the former seems more likely than the latter. Palin was not the primary reason Republicans lost the White House in November, but she became so polarizing — largely on questions over her competence — that she may have Quayle-esque mountains to overcome.
Palin remains wildly popular with the most devoted Republicans, witnessed by the rock-star reception she received while campaigning for the re-election of Sen. Saxby Chambliss in Georgia's runoff. But among the chronically uncommitted and independent Americans who typically decide national elections, Palin was not nearly so well received. This is the group the Alaska governor will have to sway if she has any future beyond Juneau.
I don't have that answer and I thought back in the summer that I did. I don't. Reading on Walden Bookstore.