The Tea Party is the harbinger of things to come. The independents are fickle, as pointed out above; they also look for simple solutions.

Mudcatters had best start taking Sarah seriously.

Guys (or guys and gals), the Tea party's problem is that it hasn't presented ANY solutions, easy, difficult, or anywhere inbetween. Ms. Palin certainly didn't present any in her speech - nothing but empty rhetoric.

She is such a ninny she wasn't even able to handle the governorship of Alaska - she resigned amid mounting scandals.

My own lifetime is filled with a succession of "populist revolution" candidates - Henry Wallace, George Wallace, Gene McCarthy, Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, Ross Perot, regardless of your opinion of their politics, every single one of them with more intelligence in his little finger than Sarah Palin has between her ears.

Take her seriously? That's a good one! I gotta say, though, I hope she runs on a third party ticket, that will split the conservative vote and assure a Democrat victory in 2012.

But all that having been said, it's still the economy, first ands foremost.