A prediction

The scandal around Illinois soon-to-be-former Governor Blagojevich is just the tip of the iceberg.  There is so much corruption in politics (in all parties) that the people just aren't going to stand for it anymore.

Obama can claim "that is not the Governor of Illinois I knew" all he wants.  Folks ain't gonna buy it.  The next two years are shaping up to be one scandal after another - and all of them will have at least some tangential connection to President Obama.  Obama may escape the worst of it, much as "Slick Willie" Clinton did, but the stain of corruption already promises to taint his administration.

What happens two years from now?  A Congressional election.

Who might run for the U.S. Senate in 2010?  Sarah Palin.

Who would she take on?  An incumbent from her own party who was appointed by her own father, the father whose corruption Palin successfully ran against in 2006.

What can Palin do?  She can win that election on a platform of cleaning out all the corrupt incumbents in Washington.

What could that mean to the whole of Congress?  That's the big question...

I believe that Palin could - and let me stress COULD, not will - be the catalyst for a sea-change in Washington, D.C.  She could be the broom that sweeps out all the useless idiots.  All she has to do is nationalize her Senate race in the middle of an administration plagued by scandal.  That could mean a huge national shift against incumbents.

Notice I didn't say against democrats.  I said against INCUMBENTS.  It just so happens that, with democrats in power, a shift against incumbents would favor republicans.  But at this point, I care more about throwing out all the bums, regardless of party, and replacing them with randomly chosen names from the phone book if need be - JUST GET RID OF THEM - than I care about partisan politics.

Now, let's say Palin does lead the charge: if she spearheads an assault on the entrenched corruption on Capitol Hill and is successful, then she can pretty much walk into the White House in 2012.

Big ifs, there.  Again, notice all the "ifs" and "coulds."  So really, this is not so much a prediction as an intriguing possibility.  But this much is certain: the key for any politician to win in 2010 and 2012 will be to run as the anti-incumbent, anti-corruption candidate.  It isn't about party anymore.  It is about change - and if voters decide that Obama's promise of change was just an empty pledge on the way to more of the same, Obama will find himself out of a job.

Comments

[Write Idea]

The latest scandal simply goes along with all the other "change" the Obama administration has been working on:

* Bush's economic team
* Pro-mining Interior Secretary
* Bush's Defense Secretary
* Cheney's endorsement

What more "change" is left for the Obama administration to achieve?

[SSG Jeff (USAR)]

Why does everyone want Sarah Palin to run for Senate?

She'd do better to get re-elected as Governor.

I believe Governors have a better track record at getting the top job than do members of "The Most Exclusive Club in America."

[Adron]

I could imagine that Palin could make the presidency. She'll definitely have to come off as NOT DUMB though. She needs to seriously educate herself on a number of issues. She needs to go sit down with people ranging from Ron Paul to even a bunch of Democrats. She needs to also SERIOUSLY get a grasp of US History. Not the crap US History they teach in public schools, but one that is actually based on the events that happened.

If she did that, she could improve how she comes off in such a drastic and massive way, that she could easily talk most of these schmuck politicians under the table. Even Obama could be smashed if She could actually learn to speak with said knowledge and intelligence...

but overall, I wouldn't count on her, what we really need is someone as intelligent as Ron Paul, that can speak like Eisenhower, that has the big dreams for the country of Lincoln.

If the Republicans (or any party that could afford to get someone in the spotlight enough) could put someone like that in front of the American people, and speak of Libertarian principles (with a bit o' conservative and maybe even liberal ideals) they could easily land slide.

I honestly though, don't think anyone has the balls to do that. Too much kowtowing to the media.