Now that it seems highly likely that Sarah Palin will run for the 2012 Republican nomination the former Alaska Governor has made a kind of shift: what some see as her free ride from many Republicans will increasingly be over. Some are now looking at her more critically.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.