re: #318 SixDegrees

Unfortunately, I think she stands a chance in the primaries. Or at least, she stands her best chance of prevailing there. Primaries and off-year elections heavily favor the nuts and zealots, because their obsessions drive them to the polls while others are content to sit those contests out.

In the actual election, particularly a Presidential election, though, things swing back to favor the center, and those on the margins once again find themselves…marginalized.

This is the real threat Palin poses - she may be successful in splitting the party, or of drawing votes away from candidates who actually stand a chance of winning, and force the GOP into 2012 with an entire slate of losers.

On the plus side: almost anything the GOP manages to come up with in her place will look great in comparison.

the problem is, who’s Pete Hoekstra?