I think she would have failed. We saw how the seasoned pros went at each otehr, including McCain and Romney. Palin would not have been able to withstand that mudslinging (with the scandals in her closet). She would have been raked over the coals for her support of the earmarks (and that bridge), her husband's connection to the AIP, her increase of government spending as governor of Alaska and finally her raising taxes on oil companies. The other candidates would have said that she raised taxes on oil companies to give money to the citizens, who do not pay state income tax anyway, and that raising taxes on oil companies only forces those oil companies to pass the costs to the rest of the US. They may also have skewered her on the pipeline to Canada and helping Canada create jobs (not the lower 48). Oh, and I guess they really would have laid into her over IRaq since the GOP is big on foreign policy and a year ago everyone was talking about the success (or not) of the surge… a topic she doesn't appear to have given much thought to until recently.

It actually would have been very illuminating to see how her fellowo GOP opponents would have treated her in the primaries.

I'll tell you one thing.. if she had gotten in the race before Fred Thompson, he never would have ran because she would have been the fresh face everyone was expecting from Fred. If Sarah and Fred had gotten in at the saem time he would have dropped out after a week…

Imagine if the Obamas had hooked up with a violently anti-American group in league with the government of IRAN!. By David Talbot

Oct. 7, 2008 | “My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand.” This was former revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers back in his old Weather Underground days, right? Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to do with this incendiary quote as she tears into Barack Obama this week. ONLY ONE PROBLEM. The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that's the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. (”Keep up the good work,” Palin told AIP members. “And God bless you.”)

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07...

McCain Camp cannot talk about the economy because their Economics is for the Rich, the well-off and the well connected!

Hah! Could you imagine McCain being introduced at a rally with LL Cool J blaring on the loudspeakers? Priceless…