Is Palin running for President?

CNN:

Has Sarah Palin started running for president? In the last week alone, the Alaska governor appeared at a Republican fundraiser in Washington D.C., attended a baseball game in New York and even led a small-town parade on the U.S. east coast, 5,000 kilometers from her small town on the western side of the continent.

It looks so much like a campaign for the White House, you could almost forget that Barack Obama has just settled into the presidency and will keep it until the end of 2012 at least.

What's Palin doing? Attracting crowds, cameras and lot of buzz.

"I love my time in Alaska," she told Fox News this week." At the same time, though, I crave, if not my voice, but other voices out there, being bold, being strong, letting Americans know that those who are concerned about the growth of government and about national security issues, they're not alone."

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She is keeping in the mix and she is clearly the candidate the Democrats hate the most.

You can see it in the loathsome jokes of David Letterman and others. You can see it in the attempts to marginalize her that have never stopped since she was nominated as VP. Her ability to make some Democrats crazy is not to be discounted. She manages to stoke their condescending arrogance in ways not seen since President Bush. She gets to their inner Sammy Hagger who had a hit which repeats the line "you make me crazy" over and over.

She is attractive to Republicans, because she supports issues they support and opposes the one s that Republicans oppose. Unlike Bush she is willing to fight back against the hatred that tries to destroy her.