The New York Times never fails to deliver fascinating new perspectives on the week's events. This week he shares evidence that Sarah Palin is already looking beyond the November 4 election to a bigger prize in 2012, at the latest. Rich focuses on still unanswered questions about the health of the man at the top of the Republican ticket and raises the possibility that Palin "wouldn't even blink" if events of any kind placed her in the top spot.Nor does
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It’s against this backdrop that Palin’s public pronouncements, culminating with her debate performance, have been so striking. The standard take has it that she’s either speaking utter ignorant gibberish (as to Couric) or reciting highly polished, campaign-written sound bites that she’s memorized (as at the convention and the debate). But there’s a steady unnerving undertone to Palin’s utterances, a consistent message of hubristic self-confidence and hyper-ambition. She wants to be president, she thinks she can be president, she thinks she will be president. And perhaps soon. She often sounds like someone who sees herself as half-a-heartbeat away from the presidency. Or who is seen that way by her own camp, the hard-right G.O.P. base that never liked McCain anyway and views him as, at best, a White House place holder.
--Frank Rich, "Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain," October 5, 2008 New York Times
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