Quote of the Day (May 12, 2009)

It's The Economist, stupid:

"Sarah Palin is still a frontrunner for the party's 2012 presidential nomination—a de facto leadership role as long as the party is led in Washington by the cardboard cut-outs of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. And no other potential candidate is more emotionally tied to the base of the party."

It's a left-handed compliment, for the article goes on to snark at the Governor. But that's nothing new for The Economist, which decried her perceived lack of experience last September, despite the fact that Obama had no executive experience at the time, and Joe Biden still has only half a brain to work with.

But the Economist nevertheless manages to make the point that Gov. Palin is at the head of the pack for the next GOP presidential nomination, despite the nostalgia of party moderates for Mitt Romney and the wishful "thinkers" on the left who have insisted that her political career was over at each little bump and turn in the long road to 2012.

- JP