A Quick Political Prediction

Comments and opinions are one thing, but how about a prediction or two?  Here's where I stick my neck way out: The Republican field for the Presidency has a gaping hole in its center.  Gingrich, Romney, Pawlenty, and Paul do not excite anyone, much less the base that will be needed in any national run.  With Barbour's exit and Christie and Ryan's adamantine-like refusal to run,  what are Republicans to do? Don't worry; Sarah Palin is on the way.  She has cleverly reduced her profile the last few months, to let the sharks and piranhas of the press turn their addled attentions elsewhere for a while.  She even convinced many of the conservative punditocracy that she preferred all the money from her media gigs and would not be running.   But she will run, and when she announces, it will be explosive. Watch for it.  And watch for her initial talking points to be the subject of national debate right up until election day.  She has a knack for such things, a knack that will enable her to do the most important thing in any Presidential run, the thing that no one else, Republican or Democrat (including our over-rated Communicator in Chief), has shown any ability to do: set the terms for debate. And she who sets the terms for debate shall win the debate.  And the Presidency.