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To: Metacomet who wrote (148416)10/29/2010 5:14:20 PM
From: JohnM  Respond to of 543151
 
We used to wish for a Palin candidacy because we really thought that it couldn't happen here.

It appears as though the American voter is even more of an enigma than we thought.


John Heilemann has a longish article in this week's New York Magazine that plots a way she might well become president. It goes like this. She gets the Rep nomination in 2012, a not completely unlikely scenario. Obama stays weakened or gets weakened still more by an unworkable congress that actually pulls off their leadership's desire to end his presidency. Mike Bloomberg sees an opening for an independent run for the presidency. The election produces no definitive result so it's thrown to the House of Representatives. Controlled by the Reps.

Pretty unlikely. But. . . .

You can read it here. nymag.com