Maybe Next Time...

Sarah Palin, apparently, has no real commitment to the country.

She, seemingly, has a commitment to only one thing.

Her family.

That is what she would like you to believe.

But here's the thing. Three years ago John Maverick (Bart and Bret's youngest brother) hurled Palin onto the national scene by choosing her to be his vice presidential running mate.

She went on to create a career as an opportunist which she had supposedly begun in Alaska, where she could see her back porch from her kitchen window...and also Joe McGinniss.

She went around the country making incendiary speeches getting everyone all riled up.

She hosted a reality TV show.

She wrote books and had books written about her.

She became a "pundit" on Fox News.

She solidified her standing as both a cougar and a MILF.

She introduced us to her daughter, Bristol, and the "boyfriend", Levi Johnston.

Thank you for that, by the way.

She flirted with a run for the presidency and then...WHAP! One of her acolytes, the ever idiotic Michele Bachmann, announced that she was going to campaign for the nation's highest office thereby stealing a bit of Sarah's thunder.

Palin's poll numbers began to fall and now she enjoys a place near the bottom with such august company as Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman.

She announced, the other day, that she would not run and wanted to devote more time to her family and presumably the neighborhood moose population. That was code for her wanting to devote more time to making money...

Thank you GOD! She's not going to be in the race! We are left with, probably, Mitt Romney but even he is better than Palin would have been.

We caught a break!

But only for a few years. She will continue to be a newsmaker and firebrand and will continue to spew her venom and mediocrity wherever she has a paying audience and an all too willing press corps.

So relax. We won't have Palin to "kick around anymore"...at least not until 2016 if Obama wins or 2020 if he loses. Then she'll be "baaaack!"

So much for the Champagne.