re: #87 researchok

I don’t believe that.

Palin may be a rallying force but every poll shows her as no front runner.

Personally, I believe she has as much presidential credibility as I have as an astronaut.

These days, I believe America is capable of electing Palin, absolutely. I don’t think it’s a lock, but it’s certainly a thing that could happen.

I don’t have a very high opinion of the aggregate intelligence of Americans. There’s no such thing as “credibility” within the base of the GOP these days. No such thing. The candidates the base wants are by definition incredible, they’re stupid, they’re inexperienced, they’re bad politicians, they espouse radical and completely impossible positions. But yet, they seem to be popular!

But you get all the rubes on the same page, a bunch of pissed off unemployed people (which would be the swing voters) if the economy continues to tank, and all the white fraid-of-the-black-muslim suburbanites whose tribalist strings are being pulled, Palin could totally become president.