Sarah Palin is not an unintelligent woman. Even her fiercest critics will tell you her problem is ignorance, not stupidity. The thing about ignorance is that you don’t know there are things you don’t know. She was put in a very bad position by people who treated her as a means to an end, and they are the real villains of this piece.
She’s been used and abused, but now she has the opportunity to turn it to her advantage. You don’t think those book publishers are salivating already over a deal? What about the Sarah Palin line of designer spectacles? Heck, she could make enough to repay the Republican donor whose credit card she allegedly beat up on shopping trips to Neiman’s, and still have plenty left over.
Even Gov. Palin realizes that she’s not a realistic choice for 2012. But if she really has a commitment to elected office, she has a pretty good future ahead. She could run for Congress or the U.S. Senate, learn how the system works, or doesn’t work as the case may be, and then she’d have some credibility as a maverick. As we’ve said in this space many times, to fix something that’s broken you have to have a clear idea of how it’s supposed to work in the first place.
There is one condition under which I will offer Sarah Palin my vote right now if she wants to go for the big prize in 2012. Tina Fey absolutely has to be her running mate. Job No. 1 of the vice president is to be a spare president. I wouldn’t have a problem if they switched off from time to time. Who’d have to know?
There, now I’ve said it.
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