Sarah Palin

Anyone with one brain cell knows that Sarah Palin is running for President and it just started yesterday when she gave up her position as Governor of Alaska. No one, unless they are under indictment, facing serious personal or professional challenges, suffering from serious health problems, or have a family member suffering from health problems, gives up a high profile political job.

There are only 50 U.S. governors, and she was one of them, and was probably one that people could actually name. This is because she was John McCain's running mate last year, and everyone heard all the jokes, and then heard all the hate she spewed out on the campaign trail (Remember all the terrorist comments about Obama? And don't forget now, no one booed her). Palin has what most candidates don't have: name recognition and some kind of profile.

That brings me to the point of this. Do not sleep on Sarah Palin. People are laughing saying she has no chance to win. The GOP is throwing her in the trash bin. (GOP insider David Frum says she has no chance). Don't believe it.

If the political stars don't align for Obama and if the economy keeps stagnating, people keep losing jobs, and he slips up and makes another comment about some entity that conservatives hold dear, the door will be open for change, or at least, a grassroots level effort to elect anyone but him will form. Remember, George W. Bush got elected twice and he proved to the world easily he had no business running a country.

Back in 1968, people said that Richard Nixon couldn't win. Democrats were in trouble but they had Bobby Kennedy ready to take over for the exiting Lyndon Johnson. Things looked good, right? Nixon was a former Vice President, who had lost in that controversial 1960 election to John F. Kennedy. He all but wrote off Presidential aspirations in between 1960 and 1968. He wasn't even the candidate for the GOP in 1964; Barry Goldwater got decked by LBJ in that election. But Nixon rose from the jokes and the hell of political defeat in 1968.

A Civil Rights bill was passed in 1964 and then the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Vietnam went to hell, the war on poverty stalled under allegations of socialism, and then in 1968, Bobby Kennedy was killed. Nixon played the race card to poor southern whites. The door flew open for Nixon and he stepped into history.

Point is, don't sleep. Anyone who organized in the last campaign for real change, should get back to organizing. Those who hated the Bush years, should remind everyone, that Palin is Bush politically and probably more concretely conservative. She is what you voted against less than a year ago only more extreme.

The conservative money changers will fill her coffers with loot. They loved her during the 2008 campaign despite her incompetence and hateful rhetoric and they will love her more in 2012. She is coming to save the day (at least, this is her angle), even though her brand of politics is what was voted down. But this is the United States; people can't even remember what they ate for breakfast their memories are so bad. Some would have voted for George W. Bush again if they could. This is America.