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October 31, 2008
Posted: 01:05 PM ET
 Click the play button to see what Jack and our viewers had to say.

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FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger — a Republican and supporter of John McCain — told national public radio yesterday that Alaska governor Sarah Palin is not prepared to take over the job of President if she had to. He said, “I devoutly hope that [she] would never be tested.”

But the fact is that if some people in the Republican Party get their way, she could be tested one day. Should John McCain lose the race for the White House, you can bet your last dollar this moose huntin’, gun totin’, pro-life hockey mom will not fade from the political spotlight. She’s a huge hit with a group of social conservatives who embrace her values and see her as a fresh face for a divided party… to them, a 2012 Palin run for President may be on the horizon.

Watch: Cafferty: What’s next for Palin?

But a lot of other people feel quite differently. Sarah Palin quickly became a national joke for her lack of experience, failure to grasp the issues and inability to handle herself with the media — especially those awful interviews she did with Katie Couric. Recently she’s gone off script and off message on the campaign, angering several of McCain ’s campaign advisers. She’s been called everything from a “diva” to a “whack job,” and yet through it all she remains remarkably unphased.

In an interview this week on ABC’s 20-20, Palin said, “I’m not doin’ this for naught.” Yet another pithy utterance.

Here’s my question to you: If John McCain loses, what’s next for Sarah Palin?

Interested to know which ones made it on air?


Anne from Seattle, Washington writes:
With that pushy personality, we will unfortunately see more of her. I won’t be watching though. And if the Republicans see her as part of their future, I see the U.S. as a one party system. My wish is that she’d spend her life gazing at Russia quietly, very quietly.

Sherry from Pennsylvania writes:
She will go back to Alaska, a state that we in the lower 48 should stop casting such a dim view on, and she will continue to govern the energy rich state, be herself, and a mom. There is no job in the world more important than being a good parent. I wish everyone would give her a break and stop demonizing her.

Dennis from Cleveland, Ohio writes:
Hopefully, obscurity!

James from Chuckey, Tennessee writes:
Her name will become synonymous with the anti-intellectual, intolerant, theocratic, base of the former GOP. She will be the candidate of choice for those who do not read, those who still look under their beds for communists at night, those who wish to limit the freedoms that most of America wants. She will hopefully be required to repay the state of Alaska for flying her family around as if they were royalty.

Roy from Chicago writes:
With her comedic delivery, she is well suited to situation comedies. How about “Third Rock from Russia”? Political mother of pregnant teenager with snowmobiling husband deals with the trials and tribulations of Alaskan life in the midst of a hilarious impeachment!

Jeff writes:
What’s next for Princess Palin? Nothing.

Toni writes:
She and Joe the Plumber can hook up and get a reality TV show on MTV.

Filed under: 2008 Election • Gov. Sarah Palin • John McCain


Gary - Woodhaven, Michigan   October 31st, 2008 1:07 pm ET

Hopefully a plane ticket from Phoenix to Anchorage and a muzzle.

Ginny   October 31st, 2008 1:07 pm ET

I hope she goes home and takes guard at her back porch watching Russia. Don’t think she can do much harm there, do you?

Charlie (Bethpage, NY)   October 31st, 2008 1:08 pm ET

Four words…..Dancing with the Stars.

don in naples, florida   October 31st, 2008 1:09 pm ET

palin will probably return home, freshen up on foreign policy and other key issues she fell short on in the public eye, and then return to the presidential campaign in 2012.

Brian from London   October 31st, 2008 1:11 pm ET

Senate race in Alaska, run for Republican ticket in 2012 or 2016, lose to just about anybody from the lower 48, stay in Senate for next twenty years… can;t be worse than Stevens

David in San Diego   October 31st, 2008 1:12 pm ET

She is a flash-in-the-pan except for the most committed evangelicals. If she gets a Senate seat from Alaska, she will stay in the spotlight, but otherwise the revamped Republican party will not place her in the top five once the primaries for 2012 come around.

Larry in Florida   October 31st, 2008 1:13 pm ET

I’m thinking some sort of clothes fashion line. She’s a strong Lady and I think all this sarcasm will run right off her back. She takes the insults and the media for what they’re worth and goes on from there. It’s to bad people didn’t get to know the real Sarah Palin. Maybe she doesn’t have enough experience but she doesn’t deserve all the bad mouthing either. Be glad when this election is over like never before. Seen many Presidential elections but this one is out of control and needs to be over.

Lauren, Alabama   October 31st, 2008 1:13 pm ET

Hopefully she goes back to Alaska, gets convicted of a felony and goes back to her thrift stores and stays with the “real americans” where she belongs.

Sam Pendergrass, Scappoose Or   October 31st, 2008 1:15 pm ET

I am thinking tea fey impressions?

Beau   October 31st, 2008 1:15 pm ET

John McCain and Sarah Palin are two very different types of conservatives. If the Republican Party rallies behind either one after election day, they will be alienating a large portion of their party who wil refuse because of these differences, which will weaken the party as a whole.

Because of this, I think McCain will return to his center-right role as a Senator, and Palin will fade away from everyone’s attention back in Alaska — and the most likely outcome is someone like Mitt Romney becoming the ‘leader’ of the Republican party, and both McCain and Palin fading away with a large blemish on their permanent records. I think Palin’s divisive rhetoric has put her too far to the right in the public’s eye to ever have a serious political career on the national stage.

jay gallant   October 31st, 2008 1:16 pm ET

Obama, this time
They are going to choose ‘that one’
And I’ll fight Hell with him !
Barabas

Sam Pendergrass, Scappoose Or   October 31st, 2008 1:16 pm ET

Hey there may be an opening for a Republican senator soon…..she might want to take her fifteen minutes of fame and go for it….

Jane in Columbus,Ks   October 31st, 2008 1:17 pm ET

Hopefully she will disappear never to be heard from or of again but in reality , much to my utter amazement ,she appears to be headed towards being the standard bearer of the Republican party for reasons I will never understand but then too I have never really understood the current party either as all they seem to be about is hatred, racism and divisiveness.How they can claim to be country first and for the people is beyond comprehension after the filthy dirty slimy way they have conducted the current campaign.They wouldn’t recognize the truth if it reached out and slapped them in the face,they never ever speak about the issues, only slam every democrat running and just when it could NOT get any worse then Dole pops up on the radar with that ad against her opponent. I sincerely hope Kay Hagan cleans her clock, figuratively as well as literally and most importantly at the election booth.POWER to the PEOPLE and get out there and VOTE

James   October 31st, 2008 1:17 pm ET

I really don’t think anyone cares at this point. If the Republicans think she is the future of there party they are sadly mistaken. Palin and her party need to look in the mirror and decide which of two faces they are going to wear….Hint “my friends”….not the one they are wearing now!

F Machado - Connecticut   October 31st, 2008 1:18 pm ET

Go back to Alaska and keep watching Russia from her backyard.

Sharon from Virginia   October 31st, 2008 1:18 pm ET

She will return to Alaska and become the Senator there.

Norma Whitehall, Montana   October 31st, 2008 1:18 pm ET

She goes back to Alaska and they impeach her?????? That’s what I would like to see happen…..

Doug - Dallas   October 31st, 2008 1:18 pm ET

Now that she’s had a taste of the National Spotlight, I’m sure she’ll try and stay in it since she has aspirations for 2012. She is extremely ambitious and believes she will have a base to operate from.

She really needs to go home and get her “house” in order. There are a lot of issues that will become media fodder such as the rigged bidding on the pipeline, how much “free” help they got building their house, her violation of the Alaska Ethics Law and who knows what else. If she thinks the spotlight was bright now, just wait until she tries another run. She’ll find it will be even more brutal and intrusive than this time.

lanx   October 31st, 2008 1:18 pm ET

Back to her old Job. And this time lets keep her there.

Myron in NY   October 31st, 2008 1:19 pm ET

Palin will be perfect for Saturday Night Live imitating Tina Fey.

John in Santa Barbara, CA   October 31st, 2008 1:19 pm ET

When McCain loses, the GOP will have to re-invent itself. It must move towards the center if it is to be a via party anymore. That means moving away from the Christian Right, and from the Neo-Cons and their carnage. Palin belongs to the far right and she will either have to move to the center as well, or she will become politically extinct. If she moves to the center, the sky is the limit.

Jenny Rome Ga   October 31st, 2008 1:19 pm ET

Jack,
Hopefully after her time as Gov. she will go and live on that sparsely inhabited island from where she can see Russia and gain some more foreign policy experience.

Mark Smithling   October 31st, 2008 1:19 pm ET

Shopping at her favorite consignment shop for Ted Stevens.

Peri W.   October 31st, 2008 1:19 pm ET

The possibilities are endless for Sarah Palin. There’s television, of course - “101 Ways to Cook Moose” on the Food Network or “Plumbing For Dummies With Sarah and Joe” on HGTV. My bet is she’ll spend the next 4 years honing her negative campaigning skills and run for the top of the Republican ticket in 2012. Or she could run for Miss South Carolina, such as.

L.   October 31st, 2008 1:20 pm ET

I don’t know. But if she runs in 4 years time with her same attitude, she may not even win the republican primaries. I hope she doesn’t run because I’m tired a lot of watching her on TV.

Pullman Washington state

Jim JAX FL.   October 31st, 2008 1:20 pm ET

Jack, the pick of Sarah Palin was an injustice orchestrated by McCain. They both know now that a better pick have been Joe the Plumber. She is now “Sarah-the-bridge-to-nowhere”.

Cori from Colorado   October 31st, 2008 1:21 pm ET

Palin’s next steps are buttering up Republicans so she can run in 2012. If she’s the best they got, then the Democrats will win by a landslide in 2012. She should go back to Alaska and raise all her kids, (as well as her grandkid), plan her daughters wedding already and set a good example for all those Christians, then she should leave the rest of the country alone!

Kevin   October 31st, 2008 1:22 pm ET

What’s next for Sarah Palin, probably an investigation into the spending of state money on her children for trips they wern’t invited to and where not wanted. Hopefully she will go off to oblivion, and stay there forever.

Kevin, Staunton Va.

Midwest Marge   October 31st, 2008 1:22 pm ET

Palin will continue her ‘reign’ in AK until they realize that the there are questions about the renovations on her house in Wasilla…. After an investigation, “SOMEONE” will call for her to do the right thing and step down, but she won’t because she is queen Palin and no matter what the courts say, she’ll say she’s innocent and had no knowledge of what was going on…..

Sandy   October 31st, 2008 1:22 pm ET

Hopefully, she’ll go back to Alaska and try to straighten out her legal issues. I also suggest she spend some time with her children - I find it very unfair to her children to be paraded around and being constantly on display. I know she’s a “super-mom”, but there is no convincing me that the children are not suffering due to her overwhelming duties with the McCain campaign. She owes them more.
Maybe years from now, after she’s read a few books and newspapers, she could consider running for a higher office.
Sandy from Knoxville

Don (Ottawa)   October 31st, 2008 1:23 pm ET

I think she would do well on Saturday Night Live.

Katiec Pekin, IL   October 31st, 2008 1:23 pm ET

Please, Jack, not if, when.
According to articles, when she goes back to Alaska she will not
have the backing she once had. An Anchorage headline stated
she was an embarressment.
Think probably that is why she is trying to get her once bosom
buddy to resign. Rumors are she is wanting to appoint herself
to his position.
We certainly have not heard the last of her as she has
absolutely no idea how inept, incapable and dispicable
she is. When it comes to lies, fostering anger, fear
and division of our country, no one can hold a candle
to her. Country first, yea right.

Winston Smith   October 31st, 2008 1:23 pm ET

WHEN John McCain loses on Election Day, Sarah Palin will return to Alaska and continue serving as Governor until she’s defeated in her re-election bid. After that, she will likely go the way of Dan Quayle: nobody knows and nobody cares.

Winston Smith
Malcolm, IA

Alice in California   October 31st, 2008 1:23 pm ET

Sarah is not going to disappear from the national scene, she’s gotten a taste of the spotlight and really likes it. At one of her rally’s she slipped and referred to the “Palin and McCain” ticket, oops!! Very telling!. Once the “Presidential bug” hits it’s hard to shake and this lady has been bitten.

Dave from Prospect Bay, Nova Scotia   October 31st, 2008 1:23 pm ET

Jack;
I think Palin will quickly return to the “Great White North”and fade into obscurity. She will make headlines periodically, as she faces some of the charges laid on her. I can’t see the RNC wanting her in what will be a rebuilding process, as her ineptitude has in a small way contributed to their downfall.

John from Boston   October 31st, 2008 1:23 pm ET

My guess is that she would resign on Nov 5th to avoid getting impeached for that whole troopergate mess that still waiting for her back home! I see a TV gig on Fox news in the near future. A book deal in 09 and a senate run in 2010.

Don (Ottawa)   October 31st, 2008 1:24 pm ET

Jack, the perfect job for her is waiting at LensCrafters.

Jerry, Silver Spring, MD   October 31st, 2008 1:24 pm ET

She will replace Mr Stevens as a senator from Alaska and by 2012 will be ready to run for president.

Wayne Adams   October 31st, 2008 1:25 pm ET

Jack…is it just me being cynical? In every election since 2002 gas prices have gone down a few months before the election. It happened in 2004, 2006 and now in 2008. Coincidents? …. I think not!!! We have two people with major interests in energy in office. I pray our days of being raped and pillaged are over in 4 days!

Wayne Adams

Billy from Houston Texas   October 31st, 2008 1:25 pm ET

Governor Palin would do just fine hosting her own show on Fox news called. “All Bias, All Bull”.

Eileen Peabody   October 31st, 2008 1:26 pm ET

Jack,
The way it looks right now….they are already blaming Palin for the loss.

I would suspect she will go back to Alaska, with her wardrobe (ya….let’s see how much of it she really relinquishes!!), send her kids back to school, put Todd back to work, perhaps join the movement to succeed from the union again, and sit down to figure out the answers to all those horrible questions the media asked of her.

She will keep herself available to the Republican base, but the next question to ask will be…. what will the Republican base look like in the next few months. I understand they are already forming a pow wow to make decisions on how to appeal to party majority rather than to the minority of very right conservatives.

Domenic from Montreal, Canada   October 31st, 2008 1:26 pm ET

Nothing Jack. She should go home and I hope I never hear that squeeky voice ever again. I refer to Pain not Palin. lol…

Michael   October 31st, 2008 1:26 pm ET

Jack, the only thing she should be concerned with is learning the job of which she thinks she is really qualified for. Already there is talk of Palin 2012 and she is naive enough to run. After this election enough is enough of having to hear her speak, every time she opens her mouth I feel my braincells dying and I’d like to be able to get a degree and then go onto other things. Just because she has somehow been able to climb so high because of whatever reason she has doesn’t mean it will work out for anyone else. If she thinks the VP is head of the Senate and can help make laws,, one can only wonder what she thinks the President is supposed to do.

Mike from NJ

Susan Canada   October 31st, 2008 1:26 pm ET

She can write a book …, ” How to go from PTA to Vice Presidental Nominee…The Trials and Triumps of Dividing a Nation”

Linda in Florida   October 31st, 2008 1:27 pm ET

Maybe she and Joe the Plumber can run in 2012 (God forbid)!

Marjorie from Canada   October 31st, 2008 1:27 pm ET

Perhaps she will be “Joe the Plumber’s” VP pick for 2012.

Ryan Kelley   October 31st, 2008 1:27 pm ET

Celebrity boxing.

Docb   October 31st, 2008 1:27 pm ET

She has a taste for the bright lights but not the big city…she will go to Alaska and begin running for 2012 along with Hillery…Would love to see a debate between them???

Cam from Alpharetta, GA   October 31st, 2008 1:30 pm ET

She and Joe the plumber will record a folksy, country album.

Susan in Texas   October 31st, 2008 1:31 pm ET

I’m hoping obscurity, Jack. By bringing her into the national scene, John McCain has unleashed a monster. The fact that so many people don’t see it is even scarrier.

David in Deltona, FL   October 31st, 2008 1:32 pm ET

I think she will probably run in 2012 she won’t get past the primaries but ya never know.

Jim in British Columbia   October 31st, 2008 1:33 pm ET

A plane ride to a Alaska and a reality check.

Brian in Portland OREGON   October 31st, 2008 1:33 pm ET

Well ,I guess she can start preparing for her 2012 Presidential run..She will have four years to get up to speed on the issues?!?!?!?!?

Brian in Portland OR

Dee, Murphy NC   October 31st, 2008 1:33 pm ET

I think she’d be a great host for a talk show on Fox cable on subjects ranging from moose hunting to consignment shopping, to eye makeup…anything but political ethics, the constitution, foreign affairs, the economy, energy, medical research; in other words, anything that matters. There’s one exception to the show’s content: her opening show should be a dedicated to an apology from her to the nation for having the audacity to run as a viable candidate and for exploiting the fear, pain, and anger that U.S. citizens are feeling in this stressful time.

Arlene, Illinois   October 31st, 2008 1:33 pm ET

I hope Sarah goes back to Alaska and we never hear from
her again. And take along her squeaky voice and wink.
I have had enough “you betcha’s” for a lifetime!

Vern in CA   October 31st, 2008 1:34 pm ET

Hopefully she’ll be spending more time with her special need baby, and catching up on her Barackonomics. It is a must for all politicians!

Malka D. Oceanside CA   October 31st, 2008 1:34 pm ET

reality television show “meet the palin’s on foxnetwork” we will have a cam in her house 24 hours a day and we will get to see what we are missing as her as the vice president–not. we will get to see the day to day of a governor who is going to be a one term governor and then see her lose her bid for the re-election. we will see todd organize for the AIP and then see how he is tarted and feathered one day. we are looking for great television with this show. ratings will be better than Bill O’Reaily.

Clay   October 31st, 2008 1:34 pm ET

She is going back to Alaska to raise another one of her daughter’s kids.

Paulette,Dallas,PA   October 31st, 2008 1:34 pm ET

Palin will return to Alaska and remain Govenor until she is found guilty in Troopergate. Then she will be kicked out of the Govenorship and her Lt. Govenor would takeover. She’ll never be satisfied with Alaskan life again. McCain caused quite a problem for Sarah. How are you going to keep her up in Alaska after her being in the lower forty-eight states? This could ultimately cost her her family and true happiness.

Jeff San Diego, CA   October 31st, 2008 1:35 pm ET

Back to Alaska to face ethics charges by a committee she appointed herself, I hope like a kid on Christmas.

Back in Alaska, when the media coverage stops, I bet her stance will change against Senator Stevens.

Nationally, she’s done, finished. She can still rally the conservative base but she doesn’t stand a chance against independents. At best, she may rise in the party but her negatives now preclude her from any national office.

Kyle- DuPont, WA   October 31st, 2008 1:36 pm ET

If McCain loses there will be a leadership vacuum in the Republican Party. (Some might say there has been one for the past eight years,..but, that is beside the point). Gov. Palin will be tossed into the scramble for control of the party between Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and others. The one who can provide direction wins. I know that Gov. Palin can at least give you directions to Russia.

Mike, Cleveland, Ohio   October 31st, 2008 1:36 pm ET

Palin can go back to helicopter hunting and preparing for a shotgun wedding. Frankly, I won’t care one way or the other just so long as she stays far away from Washington D.C.

teesha Canada   October 31st, 2008 1:36 pm ET

As usual return to Alaska and watch Russia from her kitchen window

jenny   October 31st, 2008 1:37 pm ET

Hi Jack,
This has nothing to do with the question,I really want to say that you are awsome,you do a wonderful job,you are what thsy call HONEST and I love you. Keep it up God Bless. Jenny

Roby N.   October 31st, 2008 1:37 pm ET

If this were up to me,now, I would take the microphone away and drag her and her “six-pack-Joe first dude” off the stage and overnight them to their trailer in Alaska.
If she goes back to school and recognizes that “FAKE” does not always win and that she needs real “meat” to be elected, there is always hope. Americans are kind but they are no fools.

Jan from NW Iowa   October 31st, 2008 1:39 pm ET

I think she is going to fight tooth, nail, lipstick & wink to become the Republican leader of the party. She might succeed as they seem to believe she is what is “saving” McCain from a landslide loss. The Republicans do have a centralist (if there is such a thing in the Republican party) with McCain - if he loses - where does the GOP head?

Tom, Lake Havasu City, Az.   October 31st, 2008 1:39 pm ET

She will return to Ak to a chilly reception and resume her role as Gov. Where hopefully she will be required to answer for the things she has said during this campaign and for the things she has done as Gov. that have come to light.

Brian Becker   October 31st, 2008 1:39 pm ET

Hopefully she comes back in 2012 to challenge a theoretical President Obama so he will have an easy reelection.

Working Mom in Illinois   October 31st, 2008 1:40 pm ET

Well, let’s see..
After she deals with the outcome of her ethics investigation and adjusts to the idea of becoming a grandmother, maybe she’ll take some time to actually take care of her family. I’m sure her kids will need lots of help with their make-up homework from all the school they’re missing.

Then she’ll probably try for a run at the Senate. Now that she’s gotten a taste of the public spotlight she’s clearly come to crave it and thinks of herself as a “player” and will try for the earlist opportunity to get herself inside the beltway to acquire some legitimacy.

So after she loses that Senate bid (because everyone will still regard her as a laughingstock) she’ll become a spokesmodel for lipstick and/or eyeglasses manufacturers. Then again, maybe she would win because apparently they don’t have very high standards for their Senators up in Alaska.

sully,, forest park ga   October 31st, 2008 1:40 pm ET

well jack lets hope she jump off a bridge and break a leg.

ben   October 31st, 2008 1:41 pm ET

inditement

Denys in Montreal   October 31st, 2008 1:41 pm ET

We all know what is in store for Sarah Palin! After losing the election on Tuesday, she will return to Alaska, blame McCain and his allies for the defeat, and campaign rabidly for the next four years to either win a Senate seat from Alaska or her party’s presidential nomination in 2012. The hubris and vacuousness of this spiteful woman knows no bounds!

Marieth, Chicago   October 31st, 2008 1:41 pm ET

Well, the way I see it, after she enjoys her field trip to the Lower 48, maybe she’ll go read a newspaper or two, study the Constitution, and take course on how not to be a school-yard bully. The name calling is so immature.

Alexandra in the urban Northeast   October 31st, 2008 1:41 pm ET

I hope she withers into Never-Never Land. Most other losing VP candidates drifted off. I can’t even remember their names. I only recall that the losing top-ticket candidate and previous winning VP’s actually remained as party leaders. She is very dangerous if left on the national stage.

Jim Amstutz   October 31st, 2008 1:41 pm ET

If she doesn’t land a job at Faux News, she will probably go back to Alaska and continue the quest to secede from the Union. Then she can become Queen.

Frank H. from NYC   October 31st, 2008 1:42 pm ET

She likes the limelight, she no longer wants to be a big fish in a small pond. She will think she is the future of the Republican Party but the air will come out of that balloon quickly. She will end up selling jewelry on the shopping channel.

Ron, Centennial, Colorado   October 31st, 2008 1:42 pm ET

As long as the Republican Party remains under control of extremists, I hope Palin becomes that party’s leader and runs for president in 2012 and beyond with “Joe the Plumber” as her running mate.

Liz in Towson, MD   October 31st, 2008 1:43 pm ET

Maybe she’ll actually GO to Russia. With any luck, she’ll disappear there.

wakeupusa12   October 31st, 2008 1:43 pm ET

She’ll probably get her own talk show, don’t ya know. Lord knows we don’t have enough of those. ‘wink, wink’

Kelley-Arkansas   October 31st, 2008 1:43 pm ET

I believe that Hefner is planning a “Girls of Government” issue.

Tom, The Heart of Democracy, Avon, Maine   October 31st, 2008 1:43 pm ET

I suspect she’ll become a TV personality like Oliver North. You remember Ollie (The Gipper Told Me To Do It) North, don’t you?

TOM N   October 31st, 2008 1:45 pm ET

Jack,

Maybe now she will have time to fulfill her family’s dreams of seperating Alaska from the “lower 48.”
Spend the money from the “bridge to nowhere,”
while mumbling in her sleep about being an “energy expert!”

Oh yeah, and take care of her daughter’s other kid.

Glad you are back and in good health!
Tom

Alan from California   October 31st, 2008 1:45 pm ET

She will be busy defending herself in Alaska. I wish she would take some voice lessons. She’s like listening to a fight between a tea kettle and a tom cat.

Leroy from Houston,Tx.   October 31st, 2008 1:46 pm ET

She’s already doing it!! She’s prepping for 2012!! Our only hope is that her “negative” rating keeps going up. May God have mercy on us if we have to listen to that voice anymore!!

Lori, Denver CO   October 31st, 2008 1:46 pm ET

Hopefully she’ll return to Alaska, be impeached as govenor and never be seen or heard from again.

vexact   October 31st, 2008 1:47 pm ET

Oblivion

Alex   October 31st, 2008 1:48 pm ET

There’s been a lot of speculation about a potential 2012 run at the presidency by Palin. How could anybody even remotly suggest something so absurd. The woman has caused so much contraversy in such little time. She’ll be ripped into pieces, by both the media and opponents if she should run.

With that being said, I do not believe it is going to come that far. She’ll return to Alsaka and fullfil the remaining time of her term and will lose re-election. At that time she’ll drop permanently out of the political arena and will go on to become a hockey coach for the girl’s team in her little town in Alaska

Elki Issa   October 31st, 2008 1:48 pm ET

As Palin herself said, she didn’t just join this ticket “for naught.” She has her eyes set on 2012 and I pray that the republicans make her their candidate then; it would be an easy re-election win for Obama.

Elki
Modesto, CA

lisa tx   October 31st, 2008 1:49 pm ET

She can go back to alaska and resume her family vacations on the taxpayers.

Richard Sternagel   October 31st, 2008 1:49 pm ET

I don’t care because I see through her superficiality ! Sure she has a pretty face and has a TV presence but does she have substance? I don’t think so.

jay gallant   October 31st, 2008 1:49 pm ET

Who wants a pitbull in the HOUSE ? Or a trigger happy ?Let her go to nowhere !

Nancy   October 31st, 2008 1:49 pm ET

Back to Alaska to face TrooperGate. She and Stevens must be drinking the same kool-aid. She declared herself to have been cleared of all wrong-doing. Stevens said yesterday that he hadn’t “been convicted yet.” I guess he missed the part where he was in court and the jury said, “Guilty” SEVEN times! Maybe his lawyer should explain it to him. How do these people look themselves in the mirror? I guess if you have no soul…Anyway, she and her separatist husband can dream of the “country” of Alaska after it secedes from America. She’s done!

Joe in DE   October 31st, 2008 1:50 pm ET

Dust off the 30-30 and back to the frozen north. Shewon’t get the spot in Obama’s cabinet that she thinks she has earned.

Jan Davis, Knoxville, TN   October 31st, 2008 1:50 pm ET

If the Republican Party wants to regain at last some respect after their disastrous campaign this year, they need to send Sarah packing to Alaska. She is not even qualified to be Governor of Alaska. She might do well as a right-wing radio personality or talk show host. She is totally a negative campaigner and promotes fear and mistrust in voters. Her sarcasm against her opposition is totally disgusting!

Mark in OKC   October 31st, 2008 1:50 pm ET

The FIRST thing she should do, Jack, is call a press conference and tell the National media to Go Straight to Hell! Then, go back to Alaska, serve out her term as governor, then run for the U.S. Senate and then the Presidency in 2012 or 2016 at which time she can DARE the National Press to pick her apart…..again!

Annie, Atlanta   October 31st, 2008 1:50 pm ET

Well, she has the base. What a deserving match-up.

Katty AK   October 31st, 2008 1:50 pm ET

When, not IF Palin loses it’s back to Hockey Mom!
She is on shaky ground in Alaska so IF we are lucky she’ll be relegated back to HM.

Nora Corpus Christi Texas   October 31st, 2008 1:51 pm ET

McCain says they are not going to lose, so I can’t answer this question. You know John McCain never lies, he is such an honorable man, that is what he says!!

Craig, France   October 31st, 2008 1:52 pm ET

This woman is going to be around for awhile! Look for her to get some experience! You can bet she will be running for president in 4 years!!!!

Jeff in Glen Carbon IL   October 31st, 2008 1:52 pm ET

First, she’ll have to apoint someone to fill their soon-to-be Senate vacancy. That’s scary. Maybe the head of the ethics investigation?

It is a strong likelihood that one year from now, if you mentioned her name, the reaction would be “Sarah WHO?” but that is partly wishful thinking. She might run for Senate but are there really that many Alaskans who would vote for cutesy speeches that have no substance? I guess it is alright if they do, OJT is allowed in the Senate, but I think she would have to serve for a decade before anyone would give her any credit. Better they put her in the House…easier to get rid of her if she fails.

Happy in Arizona   October 31st, 2008 1:52 pm ET

If he loses, I hope Palin goes home and gives it all up. She is a disgrace and I am tired of seeing her parading around with Todd. Todd and Sareh, go home and stay home.

Barb New Port Richey Fl   October 31st, 2008 1:53 pm ET

Go back to Alaska, donate her $150,000 wardrobe to her “favorite” consingment shop so her daughter can go and buy them. Just think of how much foreign experience she can get in the next 4 years watching Russia!

ken - Hudson Florida   October 31st, 2008 1:54 pm ET

hopefully she’s back in Alaska where she will be voted out of office during the next election.

John, OH   October 31st, 2008 1:56 pm ET

Going back to Alaska, standing trial for abuse of power, impeachment, revocation of US citizenship and expell her from the country. Obama/Biden

Canadian   October 31st, 2008 1:56 pm ET

She is a quick learner, they say.

If that is indeed thecase she will be a free nanny to her grandchildren.

chuck   October 31st, 2008 1:57 pm ET

I guess she will go back to Alaska and continue to enlarge her family and shorten the life on wild animals and Oh! by the way,she has to get ready to be investigated for the wrong doings in Alaska.

Chuck in Sheboygan, WI.   October 31st, 2008 1:58 pm ET

Jack:
Hopefully banishment from the national scene. Her attack dog performance has shown her to be the very embodiment of why this country is so divided. Let her go back to Alaska and deal with the repurcusions of her actions as Governor. Her future lies in either recall, impeachment or as a talkshow host.

Debra ~ California   October 31st, 2008 1:58 pm ET

I would love for her to go back to Alaska and be a “real” mother to her children!

Stuart, Redondo Beach   October 31st, 2008 1:58 pm ET

She will follow the footsteps of Dan Quayle and set into the oblivion. Her attempt to seek the presidential nominee in 2012 will be curshed even before the primaries begin.

Mark - Asheville, NC   October 31st, 2008 2:00 pm ET

The comments so far only affirm that I can, as a lifelong Dem, vote for McCain. I never want to hear again Dems complaining that the Republicans engage in character assassination and Dems do not. That is sheer fantasy after this election.

As for Sarah Palin, she would go back and be Governor and then perhaps Senator. Pundits who think she would run for President in 2012 are wrong - she is not ready yet. Personally I would like to see the Reps run Fmr Lt Gov Michael Steele of MD in 2012. That guy is indeed impressive.

Paul Martin   October 31st, 2008 2:00 pm ET

Hurst, Texas
Today Palin is the most popular governor in the USA.
II think Palin will pursue national office and as Governor she will do the following:
(1) she will keep the Alaska Gas Pipeline project in the news and champion its speedy construction.
(2) She will champion for Alaska’s continued reform at all levels of government
Also, She will surround herself with advisors towards improving her understanding of all national & international issues while helping her polish her delivery towards appealing to a broader spectrum of the population ie; Barbara Jordan. Ann Richards et al.

Jerry from Johns Creek, GA   October 31st, 2008 2:01 pm ET

In all seriousness, she would be an excellent advocate for The Special Olympics. I am not a political Palin fan, but I do believe her interest in sports and ability to motivate would do wonders for that program and for her little boy.

Pat in Atlanta   October 31st, 2008 2:01 pm ET

She’ll become Trivial Pursuit question. Who was the ditz that ran as McCain’s running mate in 2008?

Sherry Nicholson   October 31st, 2008 2:01 pm ET

If she goes on Dancing with the Stars, we can vote her OUT the first week!

Susan/Bel Air, MD   October 31st, 2008 2:03 pm ET

Return to Alaska to face indictment on corruption charges?

Tina (Texas)   October 31st, 2008 2:03 pm ET

To be impeached.

douglas in minnesota   October 31st, 2008 2:04 pm ET

Jack — she should join SNL as a regular.

JayW in Austin   October 31st, 2008 2:05 pm ET

I don’t know what will happen to her next, but I do know that America will take a big, collective sigh of relief.

Thomas from Durham, NH   October 31st, 2008 2:05 pm ET

Jack, I think the real question is what is next for the Republican Party? If they want to continue to pander to the exclusive, narrow, right-wing, crusade-like “culture crowd”, then she will likely be their standard bearer. In that case, she may run and win the next GOP nomination, and get trounced in the General Election. Then, perhaps they will realize that they are out of step with the rest of the country.

Michael, Pensacola, FL   October 31st, 2008 2:06 pm ET

There’s the circus, a move at a new Polar Bear Third Party that highlights mavericky american values or an Oprahesque type talk show where all 10 of the Republican celebraties can learn nifty field & stream tips!

Bev, Los Angeles   October 31st, 2008 2:07 pm ET

Jack, she’ll finish the job of destroying the republican party. Or, she’ll take the conservative “Joe the Plumber” wing of the party into the Alaska Independent Party that wants to seperate from the US. Good riddance!

Carl Burgdorfer   October 31st, 2008 2:07 pm ET

Jack…..

Isn’t it obvious……..Sarah Palin will - after losing the election to Obama - team up with Dan Quayle and produce their own reality series “Deer in the Headlghts”.

After several successful seasons, Sarah wil venture into movies and will win an Oscar for her role in “Fargo II”.

You betcha (wink)!

Larry from Georgetown, Texas   October 31st, 2008 2:07 pm ET

She’ll go back to Alaska kill 3 moose and two caribou then call her lobbyist friends and tell them to start working on new pork projects, then if Ted Stevens wins she’ll get ready to appoint her husband to the Senate.

D   October 31st, 2008 2:08 pm ET

Jack,
she’s going to do just fine back up there were she can keep and eye on Russia.

Randy in Canada   October 31st, 2008 2:08 pm ET

Who cares!!!

BARB IN TEXAS   October 31st, 2008 2:09 pm ET

Back to Alaska to pay her fine for ethical mistake that she was FOUND guilty of by the legislature. Then she will get to pay for the money she charged the state for per dium on her children’s flights and staying in her home at night with them. Then she’ll get to pay back taxes on the per dium that she didn’t show on her tax refund as income. That’s for starters!!!!

Charla in De Kalb, Texas   October 31st, 2008 2:09 pm ET

Isn’t the Price is Right still on? She could be a back up for the prize girls…….

wally Ruehmann las vegas nv   October 31st, 2008 2:09 pm ET

first thing will be how to break it to the kids that they have give back the new clothes. then find a good lawyer, for her pending court cases in Alaska.

Sherrol in Canada   October 31st, 2008 2:09 pm ET

Appoint herself Senator to replace Stevens then run for president in 2012.

John in Arizona   October 31st, 2008 2:11 pm ET

As some have already suggested, she could become a popular game show host. How about calling it “You Betcha.”

Erin in Healdsburg CA   October 31st, 2008 2:14 pm ET

What I hope is that she goes back to Alaska never to be heard from again. However, what I think is that with the taste of power that she has enjoyed so far she will run again - for senate or perhaps president in 2012. Yikes.

Amber - Austin, TX   October 31st, 2008 2:14 pm ET

Well, she will go back to Alaska. She will continue to abuse her power, she will replace Ted Stevens with another Republican (probably herself!), she will get our her shot gun and marry off her oldest daughter, she will become a grandmother, and then in 2 years she will be toting around and exploiting her son Trig and her grandchild as she makes her bid for 2012.

Lisa in Ga   October 31st, 2008 2:14 pm ET

Jack, I think we will see Sarah Palin again. Because she has made a complete fool of her self, she now has something to prove. She will return back to Alaska,she will re-take English and grammar, start to read magazines (all kinds), study about other foreign countries (the ones she can’t see from her house) all while still screwing the people in Alaska!…. she will be back.. only to lose again ; remember what they say about ” First Impressions” and hers will last a life time!

roger dowdle lockhart, tx   October 31st, 2008 2:14 pm ET

Not if McCain loses-When! Hopefully she will become the leader of the republican party for the next 10 years, that should guarrantee Obama a second term and start his successor of on a good start.

alem   October 31st, 2008 2:14 pm ET

drill baby drill! She will have a drilling company and drill all over Alaska until whole Alaska changes to one drill hole.

Terry   October 31st, 2008 2:14 pm ET

Alaska Senator Stevens is going to try and get elected, then he will be replaced with Sarah Palin, and the SNL Producers will all buy new, really big houses, in Beverley Hills. God Bless America!

willa d. mcneal   October 31st, 2008 2:15 pm ET

I would hope that she would go back to governing alaska. she has a lot of learning to do before she can go any farther. she has shown that in this election. plus, her life is pretty full with her family. she will soon be a grandmother. her daughter may or may not get married. either way she will need her mother’s help. her family seems like a full time job to me. so being a governor must be her part time job. anyway, good luck.

John in Arizona   October 31st, 2008 2:15 pm ET

If convicted felon Ted Stevens’ campaign to nowhere results in his uncanny re-election, he would subsequently be forced to resign, and Governor Palin could appoint herself as his successor.

Larry from Georgetown, Texas   October 31st, 2008 2:16 pm ET

With any luck on our part she’ll go back to the frozen tundra of Alaska and build a cabin in the woods and never appear again in the national political arena.

Jeff Brenneman, Sturgis MI   October 31st, 2008 2:16 pm ET

I think the real question is, “What’s next for Saturday Night Live if McCain loses?”

leon Ma.   October 31st, 2008 2:16 pm ET

She will go back to Alaska and finish getting perks up there.
until she is voted out of office, see ya latter.
McCain picking her proves he thinks he could put any thing over on the middle class in this country. lets show him he ’s wrong.

Vote for Obama

Richard, Syracuse, NY   October 31st, 2008 2:16 pm ET

She will run for President in 2012. Wait isn’t that when the Mayan’s say the world would end? Be afraid, be very afraid.

Marc, USA - Canadian border   October 31st, 2008 2:18 pm ET

Jack

Hopefully Sarah Palin will be the Republican nominee so that Obama can win again in 2012. Palin will get the base vote but that’s about it.

She’s already burned too many bridges including her own in Alaska to ever become a serious threat to lead this country.

David,San Bernardino,CA.   October 31st, 2008 2:18 pm ET

Co-anchor on “The View”.

Kevin   October 31st, 2008 2:19 pm ET

I hope she goes back to Alaska and they start impeachment hearings against her. There is a lot that needs to be investigated, including how she got her home built. I think she is just another good old boy.

Jackie in Dallas   October 31st, 2008 2:22 pm ET

I hope convictions on two or three counts of tax evasion, fraud, and corruption.

From the rumblings from up north, I don’t think she could even win re-election as Governor!

Mark   October 31st, 2008 2:23 pm ET

She is not going away, she could appoint herself to the senate if the criminal wins.

Jette in Chattanooga, TN   October 31st, 2008 2:23 pm ET

No doubt she’ll be busy with book deals, preaching I mean speaking engagements, and movies. Palin enjoys the limelight too much. But really, I care not to hear that irritating voice after Nov.4th.

Scott - Wichita, Kansas   October 31st, 2008 2:25 pm ET

Back to her day job, of course. What else is there to do in Alaska?

Pat,Lexington, Ky.   October 31st, 2008 2:25 pm ET

I don’t know what Sarah would choose, but if I were able to choose for her: she would return to Alaska, get her daughter married and spend some quality time with her children and husband. Then, she’d go to the library and check out books on the U.S. Constitution, economics, U.S. history, etc. Maybe after a year or two of study and deliberation, she’d be able to decide if she wants to pursue a job in the government.

dan in Tucson   October 31st, 2008 2:26 pm ET

I hope she crawls back in her igloo and never comes out.

robert sulzer   October 31st, 2008 2:26 pm ET

A book deal, divorce Todd and marry Joe the Plumber.

Janice Pound   October 31st, 2008 2:27 pm ET

Now that she has really been vetted the Alaskans are finding out what she has really been doing in office and are no longer happy. I don’t think she’ll be reelected to office, so we won’t have to worry about seeing her again in our political system

Anne from Vero Beach, FL   October 31st, 2008 2:28 pm ET

It would be great if she and Joe the Plumber would walk off into the sunset together, but they’ll be around badmouthing Obama and gearing up their white house run in 2012.

Emi   October 31st, 2008 2:28 pm ET

If she runs in 2012 hopefully she’ll at least know what the President’s role is….

Joseph   October 31st, 2008 2:28 pm ET

Hi Jack,

Palin will go back to her original job and start preparing for 2012 elections.

carol, from pittsburgh   October 31st, 2008 2:28 pm ET

She’ll go home and raise her own baby and grandchild, along with the rest of her kids. I assume she “home-schools” because her children are always with her.

tj TAMPA   October 31st, 2008 2:29 pm ET

Some people said she may get a televison show, reality show or something.. Outdoor hunting with Sarah, I think thats what it’s called, could be wrong on the name though.

Bill the machinist, Quarryville, Pa   October 31st, 2008 2:30 pm ET

I hope she will go back to Alaska and enjoyed being governor. But somehow I think she fell in love with the new wardrobe and the spotlight shining brightly on them. I fear that she will go for the presidential nomination in her party or a senate seat next time around. I think she is way too far to the right to do our country any good. I think she is a good mother and a good person and according to Alaska a good governor. I hope she remains there.

Peter, Boulder CO   October 31st, 2008 2:30 pm ET

With any luck, total obscurity. Relegated to the dusty corner of historical footnotes.

Ray, Florida   October 31st, 2008 2:31 pm ET

Well Jack,

She is still the Gov. of Alaska, I would assume she would have to go back to her day job at some point! But I bet Alaska will seem alot smaller to the Palin Clan when they get home!

Richard   October 31st, 2008 2:32 pm ET

A Good Job with good pay under the Obama White House

Ed North Carolina   October 31st, 2008 2:32 pm ET

Hopefully taking care of her infant child and helping her daughter cope with life as an unwed mother.

John from WA.   October 31st, 2008 2:35 pm ET

Sarah Palin will continue to rally the religious right faction of the Republican Party, and they will coalesce behind her leadership, but i think her big time political career is over. She is going to be skewered by the political powers in her own state and when they are done she will be damaged goods. Being picked to run with John McCain long before she was prepared for the big-time will be her ultimate undoing. She is really not a mainstream Republican and the cristo-publicans can’t get her elected without the backing of the mainstream of the party.

Brady   October 31st, 2008 2:35 pm ET

I think that, if Palin gets some more experience under her belt, she could be a serious GOP contender for the White House in 2012, 2016, or beyond. Palin is already very popular with the Republican base, and if she can get her message across the aisle, she could be a serious contender.

Diane Glasser   October 31st, 2008 2:38 pm ET

Send her back to Alaska where she belongs and keep her out of National politics.

richard a. winkler   October 31st, 2008 2:39 pm ET

Hopefully she will go back to Alaska and stay there.

Katya   October 31st, 2008 2:39 pm ET

Hopefully she retires from politics altogether. Unfortunately, that’s probably just wishful thinking. I think she’s planning on staying firmly in the national politics realm.

I agree with Emi, hopefully by 2012, if she decides to run, she’ll have studied up on governmental procedures a bit and will be able to understand the difference between the judicial, executive and legislative branches of government. Perhaps, she’ll understand the role of the president and not confuse it with the role of a dictator.

I’m very concernced with someone seeking high office who has had abuse of power charges leveled before they even entered the national playing field.

David Bebeau   October 31st, 2008 2:40 pm ET

Jack
There is nothing next for Palin,she just dreams that there is.She is a flash in the pan and absolutely nothing more.
David Bebeau

PC from Atlanta   October 31st, 2008 2:40 pm ET

If the Republican Party had any of the sense God given them they would send her back into obscurity. But they don’t and they will put her up as their 2012 sacrifice to the incumbent President Obama.

T. Rodney Tatum, South Florida   October 31st, 2008 2:41 pm ET

A rap video

Susan From Gerogia   October 31st, 2008 2:41 pm ET

Jack, who cares? As long as she just goes away!

Allison, Pittsburgh   October 31st, 2008 2:45 pm ET

Unfortunately, I think we are going to have to deal with Sarah Palin for many years to come. If Obama wins, she will undoubtedly run for President in 2012 (perhaps by that time she will have picked up the habit of reading newspapers). If McCain wins, she will become the heir apparent. Disturbing.

Karyn   October 31st, 2008 2:46 pm ET

Hopefully , November 5th will find Palin slinking back to Wasilla…..and hopefully the people in Alaska will have a recall……..so whatever is found that she ran roughshod with will be thoroughly investigated with no more help of the McCain campaign people…..

I know if I lived in Alaska, I’d be pushing for it.

John, Fort Collins, CO   October 31st, 2008 2:47 pm ET

After all the bright lights and attention, the largest state in the union must appear mighty small to Sarah Palin by now. If she starts out with a congressional seat to gain experience she might get back on the national scene. But, if she holds out for a presidential run in 2012, she will be shoved off the stage. Even the Republican party can’t be out of touch enough to run her at a high level again.

Venia PA   October 31st, 2008 2:47 pm ET

Hopefully prison for her ethics violations!

David Alexandria, VA   October 31st, 2008 2:58 pm ET

Palin is going to be a hot commodity on the political stage for a while. The Republicans will slide her into a Senate seat, get her some education on foreign policy, etc.

Then…..”I’m baaaack!”

Robert smith   October 31st, 2008 2:59 pm ET

I hope she just goes back to Alaska and we never hear from her again, she’s the pitts!!!

ken gifford az   October 31st, 2008 2:59 pm ET

it depends on her. she can finish her term as gov. move on to federal level service in sen or cong, nor am I writing mccain off yet, it seems like the reported economy is on the upswing, and bush is working to help mortgage relief.

Etienne (Montego Bay, JAMAICA)   October 31st, 2008 2:59 pm ET

Up to this point, Sarah Palin has not displayed proper leadership qualitites, especially with regard to the super nation of the U.S.A.
She should go back to Alaska and and get back to being a Governor and a mother, because those aspects of her life seem to be lacking her attention.
LONG LIVE OBAMA!

Deb n Texas   October 31st, 2008 3:00 pm ET

Jack, Palin will go back to Alaska and lose her re-election, thanks to Katie Couric who woke Alaskans up and the America. Palin has shown us all who she really is and that is just not exceptable in American Politics, Jack, we have had to much incompetence in the last eight years. NO MORE, NOT KNOW, NOT EVER AGAIN!

Vinnie Vino   October 31st, 2008 3:00 pm ET

Jack,

She will become the new NHL, National Hockey League, Commissioner…

C.I., New York

Karen - Nashville   October 31st, 2008 3:00 pm ET

Unfortunately, she will be around forever. Her glassy-eyed followers won’t give her up, and her detractors will keep waiting for another Britney Spears-style train wreck. I just hope she finds a hobby other than politics.

Leslie   October 31st, 2008 3:01 pm ET

When her terms ends as Govenor, she will have syndicated Talk show on the Fox network.

Michael   October 31st, 2008 3:02 pm ET

After the McCain-Palin ticket loses on Tuesday I would be willing to bet that Sarah Palin will try to remain on the national stage but will inevitably be blamed for the republican failure to maintain the White House and therefore be forced back to Alaska to stay for quite a while. Or at least long enough for her to study things like “what a vice president actually does”, and any of the recent supreme court decisions that she would agree or disagree with. Maybe even write down a list of magazines that she can pretend she has read so as to be able to name at least ONE of them when asked in a nationally televised interview!

Or maybe she’ll convince Barbara Walters to allow a 5th host to join The View so she can align herself alongside the ever annoying, sadly mistaken and close minded Elizabeth Hasselback.

McCain’s first presidential decision, the choosing of his VP, was a major mistake and makes obvious his inability to make the necessary good judgments to align a compitent, talented team to advise him in a McCain administration. Hopefully Palin goes away after this election and doesn;t come back until she’s actually ready to aspire to the highest of offices in this country.

Robert Vega   October 31st, 2008 3:02 pm ET

As soon as she donates her new clothes (NOT!), she’ll head back to Alaska and start skipping rocks across the water to warn Russia to stay away!

MATTIE - ILLINOIS   October 31st, 2008 3:03 pm ET

Go back to Alaska and take Mccain with her. I’ve heard enough of Palin’s screechy voice and Mccain’s hateful mouth and mean eyes to last me for a lifetime. They are both ready to spend the earmark money that they asked for. A bridge and racetrack funds. hummm

Dennis, Cleveland ,Ohio   October 31st, 2008 3:03 pm ET

Hopefully, OBSCURITY!

dele, texas   October 31st, 2008 3:03 pm ET

she hopefully will go back to Alaska with a little more knowledge and clothes, be a better governor and realize there’s more to Russia than she used to see from her house.

Jan   October 31st, 2008 3:08 pm ET

Well Jack she really isn’t going to lose because she can either resume her post as the Governor of Alaska or perhaps Barack Obama can find a cabinet post for her in his administration. How about Secretary of Education, Secretary of Energy or Secretary of State. Wherever she finds herself after the election she’ll do a fine job anywhere and in anyplace!

John Russell   October 31st, 2008 3:09 pm ET

Hopefully, She will go back to Alaska, get kicked out of office,
and crawl back under the rock from which she came.

Jane (Minnesota)   October 31st, 2008 3:09 pm ET

Hope that Ted Stevens wins the senate election in Alaska and then appoint herself to his seat when he has to resign. Otherwise there’s always Hollywood - maybe a book & movie deal????

ron g   October 31st, 2008 3:09 pm ET

John mccain says we need someone that has been tested, well the whole country saw how he reacts when he’s tested during the financial crisis. He screamed the sky is falling, halt the campaign, run to washington, I’ve never seen someone so panicky. So what’s he going to do when other crisises come up? Run around like a chicken with his head cutoff in another panick. We need someone that is a lot calmer under pressure. Obama.

Kevin, Chester Springs PA   October 31st, 2008 3:09 pm ET

After she throws McCain under the bus about losing election, she’ll be busy strategizing on how to start her 2012 presidential campaign. In the meantime, she’ll hit the conservative republican speaker circuit, try to repair her reputation and get some extra cash to pay the taxes she owes for screwing the state out of the per diems she received while staying at home and bilking Alaska for family expenses while on official state business. If and when Stevens gets the boot, she’ll run for the vacant US Senate seat or appoint herself if possible. If her political gigs fail, and we can only hope, she’ll become a FOX News political pundit.

Thomas/Alabama   October 31st, 2008 3:10 pm ET

I hope that after this election is over Gov. Palin will go home and study continuously on economics, constitutional laws and amendments, domestic policy and foreign policy, the role of the President and Vice-President. I think she is a bright lady who has been misled. She also needs to learn proper mannerisms, ladies don’t cross their legs at the knee when wearing skirts. (But she already knew that one I believe the only reason they have her doing that is b/c so many men were drooling and lusting over her). Please Gov. Palin do your homework and come back as a qualified candidate and remember you will be 4 years older next and may not be quite as pretty and perky. And PLEASE GOD ALLOW HER TO STOP WINKING BY NEXT ELECTION!

John   October 31st, 2008 3:10 pm ET

If not the Whitehouse then Penthouse.
John
Pampa, TX

Jay-Mississippi   October 31st, 2008 3:10 pm ET

I am not sure, but I do not think she will be the top of the ticket in 2012. I think it will be Mitt Rominey or some one else. But not Palin, She still will not be equipped in 2012.

Francie,Wisconsin   October 31st, 2008 3:11 pm ET

Hopefully, with the national spotlight on Palin the good people of Alaska will have seen how UNqualified she is to be even Governor of their state. The Republican Party has to get back to basics and listen to the likes of Newt Gingrich as they have strayed sooo off course instead of listening to the Bushes,Cheney,Rove,McCain and Palin. Palin is giving the foreign countries a good laugh-is that what we want for o