Sarah! Sarah!

Today's Good News (Gospel)

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R), who has been largely out of the public eye through much of the spring, will reemerge Sunday as she begins a national bus tour that will put her back in the spotlight and no doubt renew speculation about a possible presidential bid. [Full] Now, let me tell you why this is great news .... I don't understand why, but I do know not all of you share my enthusiasm for a Palin presidential campaign.  But you should be happy as hell that she'll try, for this reason. Win or lose, Sarah Palin will define the issues that the 2012 election will hinge on.  What the GOP is offering as we speak are the traditional clusterfluck of  b-s artists and, you know, McCains. Yeah, a few, well maybe just one, Herman Cain, can electrify a room, but the rest are yawners.  Sarah Palin will come out swinging; talking stuff that milquetoasts would never hazard.  She, better than any of them, will operate in the firestorm of media hostility with no flapping.  Sarah Palin will ignite things.  It may be that the GOP still has enough punch left to knock her out, or the anticipated multi-billion dollar (in kind) media attack campaign will succeed, but the man left standing will have embraced her ideas.  And that's a good thing.