I'm hoping for Palin/Hasselback, personally. But I don't think she'll win the nomination in 2012, for the same reasons that Huckabee didn't win this year. She's simply too conservative, and so can't appeal to the moderates that you have to be able to appeal to to win an election. On top of that, she has a lot of baggage from this election that she would have to overcome. If I had to guess, I'd guess that Palin will run in 2012, she'll generally come in 3rd or 4th, and someone who didn't run this year will win the nomination.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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