Sarah Palin is Getting Ready to Run
Now that it has been confirmed that Sarah Palin has bought a home in Scottsdale, AZ, it seems pretty certain that she is getting ready to run for President.
Democrat Party partisan Jonathan Bernstein at the Washington Post concedes that she’s got supporters in place, policy positions that are agreeable to mainstream Republicans, and yes, she’s got credentials:
On the plus side, Palin still has something that, as far as I can tell, only Ron Paul of the current Republican field brings to the table: a large, dedicated group of supporters. That’s a valuable resource. She is also conventionally credentialed; yes, she didn’t even make it through a full term in Alaska, but the VP nomination basically clinches it; the Republican Party is already on record as saying that she is qualified to be president. On top of that, Palin has, as far as I know, not a single position on the issues that would get her in trouble with any important Republican organized group or constituency. All of those things make her a plausible Republican nominee for President of the United States.
Actually, that is an important point that Bernstein makes: it doesn’t matter that she didn’t complete a 4-year term as Governor of Alaska, because had she become the Vice President of the United States, she would have resigned as Governor anyway in January of 2009 rather than when she did leave in July 2009.
