What to do now

[Riot]

Palin doesn't want to be a policy wonk, let alone President. That's too hard. Palin wants to be famous and important and make money.

Threatening to run for office, getting office space in Iowa, her pal Rupert buying her book deals, a reality show, and appearances on Faux News, keeps her in the public eye as a pseudo-political pundit/reality star.

Rupert is the only reason Palin is still in the public eye after 2008. Her foray into real political endorsement shows how useless and unrespected she is as a politician, even in her own state (Joe Miller)

Karl Rove and Barbara Bush have already put Palin in her place regarding the world of politics. The GOP doesn't even need Palin to "rally the base", they have Huckabee for that (he beats out Palin with religious conservatives). Shiat, even a Fox News crew was caught on-tape laughing at Palin. Palin exists as Ruperts puppet toy. He pulls her string, she spouts anti-whatever, go god! go America!, she makes money, he makes money, it's all good.

If she dives into politics again, for real, the Iowa caucuses would eat her alive at the onset and she's done, gone back in Alaska forever, no cred at all. Those Iowa caucus folks take being President seriously, and you can't get by them on a wink and a snarky phrase.

Palin and Rupert won't risk the gravy train being cut off. As long as she threatens to run for President, people pay attention to her and she's live money. As soon as she announces she's not gonna run, she's done. Rupert alone will have to try and keep her shaking her moneymaker somehow in that case, while the world pays attention to the 2012 election and nobody cares what she thinks any more. Her 15 minutes might be over for good then.