Palin Out, Ensign In!

Now she's not running for President. I don't see Trump around. So my fantasy Trump/Palin ticket now looks dead in the water. But hold on! I hear she's getting divorced? She's kind of easy? Screwing around with her husband's business partner? And college stars who became mediocre NBA players? Whew.

Soon she'll be single. I wonder if she'll stay in Alaska or move down to New York where the action is? Or maybe she'll have to economize and move to Jersey? I'm on the lookout. Do you think she'd be interested in an unsuccessful but hugely influential blogger? With 15 children and wives everywhere? Stranger things have happened!

Sarah Palin went on Fox News Wednesday night to explain her decision not to run for president in 2012 and apologize publicly to her supporters.

"I apologize to those whom are disappointed in this decision," Palin, a Fox contributor, said on "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren." "I've been hearing from them in the last couple of hours. But I believe that they, when they take a step back, will understand why the decision was made and understand that, really, you don't need a title to make a difference in this country. I think that I'm proof of that."

But to judge by recent polling, Palin may have been apologizing to a comparatively empty house. The former Alaska governor, who has been the subject of fervid speculation over her presidential ambitions for months, saw a majority of would-be GOP supporters reject the idea of a Palin bid for the presidency in recent opinion surveys.

Numerous polls showed Palin holding her own in national surveys, with wide name recognition across the political and media world. But most potential supporters didn't actually want her to run in 2012. Seventy-two percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents surveyed by McClatchy-Marist last month said they wouldn't welcome a Palin presidential run. Just 24 percent said they would. Numerous additional polls showed similar results, meaning Palin's decision Wednesday was just what many conservatives wanted--an engaged Palin, but not a candidate Palin.

[yahoo! news]