I've heard the speculation that Palin might get herself appointed to the Senate; I hope she doesn't. People who do that rarely get re-elected, and one of the scandals she ran against was the previous governor appointing his own daughter to an open Senate seat. She'll do much better to concentrate on being governor and studying up on national issues so that the "inexperience" charge won't stick next time. In history, Governors have been elected President *far* more often than Senators have. This was a weird year in lots of ways.

Besides, in the Senate, she'd just be one out of 100, in the minority party, and would probably have very little to show for it. Plus gaining distance from McCain can probably only help her laugh

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K