Obligatory 2012 predictions

Sarah Palin has no chance.  That seems like an overstatement but what happened in Alaska is the harbinger. 

Rand Paul sounds loopy.  He gave a victory speech that was a trick of boring anger.  He promised to go to the senate and lecture everybody - childish and a little solipsistic.

Marco Rubio rocks.  Sharpen up his rhetoric and he will mop the floor with Obama in 2012.  Put a governor on the ticket to guarantee victory.

Obama should pull a Gerald Ford and not run for a second term.  His disastrous presidency seems impossible to repair over the next year.

Even if Obama does run, he should be challenged.  Democrats cannot offer up another serving of a slightly slicker Stephane Dion.  Hillary Clinton would win the primary challenge and she would be very difficult to beat in the generals. 

And if Obama wins the nomination, Hillary should run as an independent.

So, 2012 predictions:

Hillary-Bloomberg vs. Rubio-Christie.

Rubio-Christie win 51% - 49%.