"Fantastic! Yahoooo!!! Hip hip Hooray!! This should be the end of her run for the White House."

Don't dream. Fox News has shown throughout the last presidential election that there is no difference (for them) between politics and "news".

Further this keeps her fresh in the face of her demographic, stoking her own popularity and milking the Fox name. It's hard to think of a better move for her if she wants to be the Repuglican candidate for 2012.

I'm beginning to wonder if the whole dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks thing wasn't an act that backfired, rather than what's under the mask. This is a genius move and either shows she's smarter than she lets on, or has very very good handlers. Of course her constituents don't want her to be too smart, because smart people make them feel intimidated. Hence the act. They don't read (other than Danielle Steele novels) so they don't want their candidates to read, so Palin pretended she didn't read. I'm really rethinking her in the light of this announcement. And what comes up is far, far scarier than she appeared in the 2008 race (objects in Fox are scarier than they appear).

Be afraid. Be very afraid.