Will McCain waste Palin?  Perhaps for this election.  But the more appropriate question is, “Will Palin be wasted politically by this campaign?”  No, I don’t think we’ve seen the last of her.  I think that, if Obama strolls into the White House next January, Palin will go back to AK, where she will use the political capital she has banked through this national exposure to truly become that pit bull that the Republican Party so desperately needs.  I don’t know if she’ll run again on a presidential ticket (certainly not in 2012), but I bet she’ll begin casting her gaze beyond the Alaskan horizon and into national politics within the next 4-6 years.  Rep. Palin, Sen. Palin, RNC advisor/chairperson…the possibilities are endless for her.
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