watching Ron Paul partisans and Palin Fans duke it out.

It doesn't get better than this!

Since Ron Paul hasn't quit -- after decades of harsh criticism from all sides -- his fans don't have as much explaining to do.

So, Palin's fans are immediately on the defensive. Try explaining why your "barracuda" bursts into tears and hides in a reef when the other fish are being mean to her.

and look in the mirror.

I mean if a retard like Sarah can do it, you can give the job to practically anyone, hell a monkey could do it. This will free up her time to become a TV evangelist.

Honestly, didn't you listen to Sarah? Sarah is doing this because she's got a higher calling! From God! The Lord Himself.

God to Sarah: You GO girl! Follow the MONEY!!! They're are fools waiting to spend millions just to see you in all the new Jimmy Choos you can buy.

Sarah's new show on Fox: "The Sista Sarah Show" and her acolytes, brotha Beck, Hannity and Joe the Plumber. Speakin' in tongues (that's why you can't understand her), no doubt and singin' "Holy Rollin' in the Dough!"

You betcha!! (wink, wink) Nothin' like the higher calling of Money to make a girl think twice about the dumb job of Governor. Boring!!! What a freakin' bother! All that WORK! Ugh!! Especially when there is a ton of money just waitin' down in the lower 48!

Gotta go, folks!! My family needs me (wink, wink). And the damn media is so mean to me (wink, wink) and it costs the state of Alaska so much to defend all those allegations (and it costs ME when I could be making BIG money instead!) and I just hate politics (wink, wink - I'm so over being Governor - yuck! - now that I've seen how exciting my life could be!).

You betcha! Gotta follow the MONEY!

She doesn't.

Suppose the GOP ploy for 2012 is to push Sarah into the spotlight as a foil, to distract the media (easily done, by the way) whilst the really nefarious stuff is being planned.

Watch out, I see the GOP Dirty Tricks Brigade at work.

Other politicians never get criticized or made fun of.

Her heroic giving-up, calling it quits, and resigning her office in the face of such evil aimed at her and her alone -- well, it's just so gosh-darn inspiring.

I don't think I would be clamoring to get the soon to be former

Governor as a client. It's unclear what her market potential is, or even what market she belongs in as a private commodity. Those who command the big bucks are former presidents and members of the cabinet, people who've been in the highest echelons of power. By contrast Sarah Palin is more of an inspiration speaker who, until now, has drawn flocks to hear her for free. Will audiences pay?

The RNC claimed her campaign-trail wardrobe would be auctioned off a la Princess Diana's gowns. But it's still in hefty trash bags probably because they are uncertain over what it would fetch. Low bids would just demoralize the GOP further.

Can't wait until these gents find out that Ms. S is going to be horning into their cash cows. That's when the fun will begin!

Bring on the popcorn and watch for the blood to spill.

Palin suffers from "Blues Brothers Complex".

She thinks she's on a mission from God. Therefore she is not beholden to the mundanities of her gubernatorial obligations.

Palin claims that she left office before finishing her first term because she desires to "serve a higher calling" (what ever that might be). Basically, this is Palin-spin for "my current job has become a ball-and-chain holding me back from pursuing my personal ambitions and my desires to attain greater wealth and political clout in the lower 48".

Politicians choose the time of their announcements very carefully. We can tell from that timing what they want or do not want us to know about the reasons for the announcement. If they want the least amount of attention paid to bad news or a scandal, they make an announcement on a Saturday or a holiday. Celebratory announcements, or announcements of a lofty and positive nature, take place mid-week when they're most apt to get the biggest audience and the most news coverage.

Sarah Palin announced her resignation on the Friday before a holiday - the day most people were off from work, so it was a Saturday-plus-one with TWO days, rather than one, when we wouldn't pay much attention. She chose a week during which the news was completely absorbed with Michael Jackson, the lottery to his memorial service, and the powerful drug they'd found in his home. In other words, she was hiding behind the shrubbery, and hoping no one would look.

The message is clear: stay tuned for the scandal, or the investigation, or the less-than-noble REAL reason for her resignation. She is NOT going to run for president.

Clearly, we can stick a fork in her.

The most marked thing about Palin's supporters (the twenty-plus percent dead-enders of the conservative Right) is that they truly live in an alternative universe, where Saadam and Al-Qaeda are linked; WMD's hide in Syria; America's media is overwhelmingly dominated by a liberal ideology; America was founded as a christian nation; gays, abortionists and 'Islamics' threaten our security, et al. Rush and Mikey Weiner and Beck and O'Reilly say so.

Anyone who says this is false hates freedom, and wants to help the evildoers destroy America. It's (almost literally) a black-and-white choice for the dead-enders;

Because far-Right figures like Palin, who depend on the dead-enders' support, believe in this catechism of lies (repeated daily by Rightist radio and Fox), their public choices may appear like a string of "What the..." moments -- but only to the rest of us, who live in a world with different operating assumptions.

Palin may make a comeback as a national candidate on the Right -- and it won't matter whether we look at her and think, This woman is utterly insane, or not. She'll keep coming, full of the absolute belief that she will prevail, because her worldview depends on it.

And the usual suspects on the Right who want a free hand to make more money -- and don't give a damn whether we attack North Korea, whether prayer in schools is made mandatory, or whether the EPA and SEC are only the Fluffers of industry, will be there to help her. Supporting the alternate universe of Palin and the dead-enders benefits them personally, and directly.

She's not gone, unless she's committed a serious enough breach of law or ethics, or has had an affair. And even then... well, all of the evangelicals I've ever met believe that if they err, they simply ask for forgiveness and everything is A-OK: Jesus forgives me -- so what's the matter with you?

The struggle between reality, and the oppressive nature of the Right's belief system didn't end last November. It goes on -- but the alternate reality of the Right is under more pressure, now, and the dead-enders are more desperate.