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It seems every other day that you see another poll about who will be the GOP nominee for 2012.  Most show Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich as the front runner and Sarah Palin close in 3rd place.   I don’t know about you but I always wondered who these people are that the pollsters talk to.   I have never been asked for my two cents which is a good thing because if someone called me they’d probably get twenty bucks worth.

At any rate I decided to gauge the front runner in another way…  Facebook!

Here are the top three and how many people follow them.

Mitt Romney    445,389

Newt Gingrich    62,559

Sarah Palin    1,900,454

Now who is the front runner?  Even if one generously cut Palin’s number in half for haters and the media,  while giving Romney and Gingrich 100% of their followers assuming they are all “friendly”,  Palin still comes out on top!

Sarah Palin At High Noon

I just watched the classic movie “High Noon” (again). Gary Cooper played a brave sheriff who brought law and order to his town. As one woman said, “He made it safe for a decent woman to walk down the street”. A recently released outlaw was coming back to town on the noon train to deliver vengeance against the sheriff who put him away. His gang of three arrived early to help their leader take out the sheriff.

Fully aware of why the bad men were in town, the sheriff could not arrest them because they had not broken any laws. Waiting is not illegal.

Desperate, the sheriff interrupted a church service to solicit help. After much debate, the ungrateful town folks declined. They even suggested the sheriff “get out of town” hoping the trouble would follow him. The sheriff contemplated their recommendation. He began saddling his horse, but something inside would not allow him to run away. Heroically, the sheriff faced the bad guys and won!

I thought of another strong, gutsy, bold, stand-on-principles hero, Sarah Palin, in her own modern day version of High Noon. Sheriff Palin rode into America Town on a white horse with conservative guns blazing and saved a dead McCain campaign. She brought hope to weary and battered conservative town folks and gave them a reason to vote. (continue reading here)

When Governor Sarah Palin returned to Alaska on Wednesday she was greeted by people chanting “2012! 2012!” So will we see her run for president in 2012? Who knows?

Personally I believe that this campaign was a good way for her to get her feet wet. It opened her eyes to new possabilities. Sarah now has the next four (okay three) years to brush up on her international politics, become a better speaker (although I thought she did just fine), and hone her over demeanor and look. A few of her kids will be out of the house and her youngest will be ready for preschool so there is less for the press to complain about.

An African-American president and then a woman president. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Two enormous, historical events in one decade. Something to think about.