Is Palin Running For President? You Betcha!

I think that it is becoming more and more obvious to anyone with a clue, but so many do not, that the former Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, is running for the Republican nomination for president.
While Mrs. Palin has not made any formal announcement, she hinted recently on Hannity on Fox News Channel that she is still thinking about it.
And there is this from US News and World Report. There is Peter Singleton a one-man shop in Iowa that is laying the groundwork for the Palin campaign there.
And radio talker Mark Levin is saying that he is certain Mrs. Palin is running.
I am with them both.
Folks, the one thing about Mrs. Palin is that she is unconventional. She does things the way that no one else in politics would.
Or to put it another way, she could jump in the race tomorrow and be in the lead very quickly.
Then there is Tim Palwenty.
He tried a conventional, very staged path to the Republican presidential nomination.
And as fast as it began, he is done.
A lot of people thought that Ronald Reagan was kind of crazy just two years in as governor of California to mount a half-hearted favorite son effort in 1968 against Richard Nixon. But that, and Mr. Nixon's vainglory, set the stage for the titanic 1976 struggle against President Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination.
It took Mr. Reagan three cracks at the apple but he hit it in 1980. And a lot of establishment Republicans, the RINOs of the day were just giddy about one George Herbert Walker Bush.
The point is that Mrs. Palin need not follow the leader. She is the leader.
I will go a step further and suggest that the announcement, which I believe will be unconventional, will occur around Labor Day. Which means only a couple of weeks.
And not by accident Mrs. Palin will be speaking at a huge Tea Party group in Iowa on September 3. And it is. . .Labor Day weekend.
Even Allahpundit at HotAir is jumping on the Palin is running bandwagon.
And also, to go back to Ronald Reagan, despite the fact that he won the presidency in 1980 by a landslide, it was not until the final weekend, and not better than 50-50 in polling that Mr. Reagan would be the 40th president of the United States. And yeah, he was considered a weak contender to then President Jimhah Carter.
So before all you Palin haters want to point out such polls as this, the similarities between Mrs. Palin and Mr. Reagan are rather striking.
So, my prediction is Sarah Palin will use the Tea Party speech on September 3 to began her quest for the Republican nomination for president.
Good luck to her. She will need it.