Daily Kos explains why it's a near certainty that Sarah Palin will run for the 2012 Republican nomination. [Hint: it's for all the cynical, money-grubbing, self-serving reasons you thought....]
Palin may be lazy, and she may be dumb in a sense that you don't want your president or governor or small-town mayor to be, but she's pretty damn smart about what's good for Sarah Palin. And what would not be good for Sarah Palin would be to sit on the sidelines and watch the candidates slowly but surely eat away at her ecological niche. Her money machine is dependent upon her being the leader of her disaffected followers. If she stays out, they'll need to back someone else in the primaries, and that person -- Santorum? Newt? Dare I say, Bachmann? -- will be able to at least partially supplant Palin's primacy. And that means less money for Sarah. Running, on the other hand, is a can't-lose proposition. If she loses in the primaries, she loses to someone less pure than her, and she's a martyr. If she loses to Obama, she's a martyr. If she wins the whole shooting match, she's president, and can find jobs for all of her Mat-Su buddies and develop new forms of graft. She has to run to feed the beast.
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