Why Sarah Palin Will Be the 2012 Republican Nominee for President

The media started talking about Sarah Palin as a candidate for President even before the 2008 election was over.  I've been very confused as to how anyone could consider that a real possibility.  But incredibly, her name does not seem to have left the news in the past year, and articles about her viability as a candidate are still published all the time.  Like this one.  But it has dawned on me why her candidacy would be so good for so many people.

In order for the Republicans and Democrats (Republicrats) to remain in power, each party must offer a candidate so repulsive to so many people that large numbers of voters feel forced to vote against that candidate, i.e. vote for his/her opponent most likely to win, even if that means voting for the "lesser of two evils."  Thus, few who are scared by one candidate or the other can bring themselves to vote for a third party candidate, no matter how much more appealing they are.

This is why Palin will be the Republican nominee.  If some centrist Republican were offered, many voters would reason, "Well, I voted for Obama on the promise of peace and freedom.  That's not happening, so I can't vote for him again.  This centrist Republican isn't terrible, but he's no peace and freedom candidate either.  I'm voting for a third party!"  This would be disastrous for both parties, for the corporatocracy, and for the international war machine.  What if Palin were the nominee instead?  Our hypothetical voter would likely think, "Shit, we can't have her in the White House.  I'm going to vote for Obama and hope the second term is better than the first."  And Republican voters think, "Yeah, Palin!  The anti-Obama!"

So Palin will be the nominee, and we'll have another 51-49 election, and regardless of who wins, we'll have more war, more poverty, and more injustice.  The status quo will continue.

Opt Out of: Two-party politics; voting based on fear; the government war machine.