LET SARAH BE SARAH. “[A] successful politician wears the persona he is most comfortable with. Ronald Reagan reveled in playing the old codger who stuck to his principles.... Now we find Sarah Palin as the pretty girl who stuck to her principles. A young Reagan in a skirt, if you will.

Read the whole thing, and follow the comments. Clearly Palin was at least as experienced as now-President Obama, but she’s probably ruled out in 2012, less by her own hand than by the President’s incredible incompetence in office. They may will be wrong, but voters will probably be looking for extensive – and visible - prior executive experience in 2012.