Palin Panic

I'll agree with Earl that the Palin Effect is beneficial to an adrift Obama administration.

Their best-case scenario is a GOP nomination of Sarah in 2012, but even less than that will help them politically. Sarah's inability to get out of the spotligiht will finally trigger the explosion of the long-simmering tensions within the GOP's libertarian-moderate-teaparty-theocracy-warhawk Big Tent.

Republicans are unified right now only in opposing Obama and in refusing to help him get any victories, even at the cost of our nation's progress. That camouflages the huge battles happening under the surface of the GOP. But those battles will come out into the open inevitably, in a way that will probably hurt them in a few years if not by the midterm elections.

This may be good for Democrats' political expedience, but it's not good for the American republic, which is in desperate need of a sane and sober conservatism.