FAILED 1/2 term former Governor, when asked if she could beat Obama in 2012: "I believe so."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Sarah Palin, as you've probably heard by now, was asked by Barbara Walters in an interview that won't air until sometime in early December whether she could beat Barack Obama if she were to run for president.

"I believe so," was Palin's (somewhat) confident-sounding reply.

On one level, there's little news here. What was she going to do -- say she'd get crushed in the Electoral College? And it's typical Palin, too: A more disciplined politician probably would have cracked a joke and found a way to maneuver out of providing a direct answer, but with Sarah Palin, that's just not happening.

But since she answered the question, let's look a little closer at Palin's boast. Could she actually beat Obama?

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/sarah_palin/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/11/18/palin_obama_2012

[notadmblnd]

1. obviously suffering from visions of grandeur

See what happens when you tell mediocre people that they are special? They start believing it.

[driver8]

2. Or they become pResident -- like Dubya.

I would like to say that this country would never elect Palin, but after Bush it is obvious that this country will elect anyone.

[LeftinOH]

3. I want her to believe she can- and I also want the RNC to believe she can. n/t

[Old Codger]

4. Well

Her "belief" system is now and always has been pretty befuddling...

[Marr]

5. Yeah, she could run with Snooki on the reality TV ticket.

...

I don't think Palin has any real political ambitions anymore, beyond fleecing the morons who support her. If she did, she wouldn't have sold any chance she had at attaining *any* degree of gravitas by doing a reality tv show.