Do you doubt that Palin will be the nominee?

[You kip if you want to...]

No.

I think that it's painfully clear that Palin will be the nominee. Yes yes, "it's a year and a half away" blah blah blah, but just look at the enthusiasm she creates among the right and sheer hatred she evokes from the left. We haven't seen such a sight since one B.H. Obama. All you have to do is look at the power her endorsements have had over the past year: O'Donnell, Angle, Miller, Paledino, Scott Brown. Can you imagine the power of her as the candidate? No one has ever been able to have such influence over a party like that, in recent times.

If you seriously think that Mitch Daniels or Mitt Romney or whoever can beat former Governor Palin, then you clearly haven't been paying attention for the last two years.

I guess this is the problem with the primary system though, the "non-Palin vote" will end up being split and she will be the GOP nominee because of it. Whether she can beat Obama is a completely different arguement though. Of course, there are those on the left who'll be all "Oh, I hope Palin is the nominee, Obama will easily win then", but this is the wrong attitude. If i've learnt anything from following politics, it's that no-one should be underestimated, no matter how much of a longshot they are. Would you have thought that Christine O'Donnell would be everywhere this time a month ago? Did you even know who Joe Miller was 2 months ago? Did you think that you'd be reading that Palin was some kind've right-wing Messiah on November 5th, 2008?

If the GOP do take back Congress in November, then she will make sure that the narrative is that it's thanks to her.

A Palin nomination is dangerous for the left and the right. What's stopping there being some big, career killing moment for President Obama on October 30, 2012?