After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after abruptly announcing she would soon give up her job as governor, Palin indicated on a social networking site that she would take on a larger, national role, citing a “higher calling” to unite the country along conservative lines.

“I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint,” the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote in a posting on her Facebook page.”

Thanks for your comment.

I am sure too that Sarah Palin wants to win. I am almost as sure that she will not get the Republican nomination for president (you’ve read what the Republican establishment thinks of her) — at least not unless she first creates and leads an independent movement that takes over the Republican Party.

Palin began her political career as an “independent outsider” successfully challenging well established Republicans in Alaska. My guess is that she will now take that approach nationwide, creating an independent movement, with herself at the helm, that will declare itself free of either major party.

And while I agree with you that any third party victory is highly unlikely, I believe that Sarah Palin is convinced that she has been given a sacred task and is on a mission from God, with whom all things are possible.

I never liked quitters in sports and like ‘em even less in politics. Her resume was thin to begin with and now she’s shredded what’s left of that with her no mas routine.

I suspect you are correct that she intends to run for President but her administrationus interruptus will blow up in her face. I doubt she’ll leave the GOP–the presidential field is too weak to walk away from an electoral system that is stacked against a third party candidacy. She wants to win, which neither Strom Thurmond, George Wallace nor, for that matter, Ross Perot, did.

She has long been being investigated over the “Hockey Rink” scandal, in which it was uncovered that her husband Todd, who claimed to Fox News to have “built their house with a few buddies” was actually built by a large powerful contractor (who the governor had done commercials for) in exchange for the rink contract.

Instead of Argentina, she went to the bank.

The post has been up since it was published. I had posted an advertising link on the top of the main page for the day after the post flipped to the second page of the site.

I took the ad down a day later, because that was about all the attention I thought Art and his rag deserved.

The post is still available for comment here:

http://www.theliberaloc.com/2009/06/25/what-is-it-about-blogs/

Sorry you thought it went away. Feel free to comment as you feel the need.

I think Sarah Palin is a far more politically important figure than Ross Perot.

On the order of Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968, and potentially even bigger.

Would this make Sarah Palin the new Ross Perot?