Run, Sarah, run!

From the Chicago Tribune, an op ed: Run, Sarah, run!
"Change of Subject" by Chicago Tribune op-ed columnist Eric Zorn contains observations, reports, tips, referrals and tirades, though not necessarily in that order. Links will tend to expire, so seize the day.
I'm vastly entertained by the prospect of the formal entry into the GOP race of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (trailing Obama by 21 points in a head-to-head McClatchy-Marist poll earlier this month; by 14 points in a CNN/Opinion Research poll). She’s slated to speak at a tea party rally in Iowa a week from Saturday, Sept. 3, and rumors of a “major announcement” are flying.

She will not be our next president. But unlike some other hopefuls who also will not be our next president, she has the political wattage to shift the terms of the debate within her own party and nudge it even further to the right.

That wattage is already diminished. The vacuum that her provocative tweets and pugnacious posts filled during the campaigning lull has been filled by actual candidates, causing our interest in Hamlette of the Tundra to wane.

Her battle to stave off the obscurity and irrelevance that inevitably awaits her will keep us amused, with luck, all the way until Super Tuesday (March 6, 2012).