Palin in '12!

We be Palin'.

In the increasingly hostile internecine battle in the Republican Party--they look almost like Democrats, these days!--we have to side with the base purists who look to Sarah Palin as their standard-bearer for 2012.

A Palin-Huckabee ticket would be a very pure expression of social conservatism, and it would be a voter-friendly, not an angry, expression. It won't play well with the Bushite party Establishment, but they've earned their ticket to nowhere. As in, who cares what they think? Karl Rove, this means you.

Yes, it should lose--big time, 45-47% national vote kind of support, kind of Bob Dole-ish--unless the Obama Administration falls flat (and I see only one reason why it would: the impossible nature of the combined domestic and international challenges it will face).

I suppose there is some sort of moderate, 21st-century expression of opposition to the rampaging Democratic majority that could emerge, though I can't imagine why people of that persuasion would choose the Republican party as its vehicle. Nor do I see them taking on Obama & Co. in 2012; if they were really smart they'd wait until 2016.