So it seems it's time for another primary postmortem.

And again dear Sarah has picked quite a few winning horses.   Sure there are specific local reasons in each case why the Palin-picked candidate won last night--but her endorsement helped---and even if her seal of approval was not as significant as other factors, you can bet each winner (McCain, Miller, and Nicki of SC (can't remember her last name) for instance) will be grateful to her and more than willing to help her with a prospective presidential run in 2012.

I've just seen a map of "The United States of Palin"--a bit overstated, to say the least, but after all the writer wanted readers.   At any rate, I count about 18 states in which the Palin-supported candidate has won his or her primary--some states more than one.   Every one of those is a chit Sarah can call in.

And she remains the best on the Republican side at articulating--and spreading-- seething discontent with government.   Which is not restricted to Republicans.

There's no question she has the pole position for the Republican nomination if she chooses to run.

And there is precisely zero evidence she will not.



So it would seem that if there are any Mudcatters still with their heads in the sand, whistling in the dark that she is no danger--whistling through the sand must be a neat trick---they should wake up.

And she will be no pushover for President Obama, who, like all sitting presidents, must run on the platform of competence, not charisma.   So that leaves charisma for Sarah. Which, for non-liberals, she has an abundance, to put it mildly.

#1 on the list to prove competence will be an unemployment number much lower than the current one (9.5%?).   I've also seen a prediction-- by OMB yet, so not a raving reactionary-- that even by the end of 2011, the unemployment rate will only be down to 9%. Not good enough.

And what's more, as I've noted earlier, the new jobs must pay as well as the lost ones. So far, the opposite appears to be true.

Not a pretty picture.