Can I Get An Advance On My Honaranium So I Can Buy Some Jeans?

Everyone takes credit for Sarah Palin's new to do list for a successful run for the White House. Various hacks and menschs alike have recommended all or parts of a regimen that anyone without a snowball's chance would have to AT LEAST do in order to have a shot at the OO.

These suggested measures include, but are not restricted to writing a book, starting some kind of foundation, and making some foreign policy speeches in a foreign country.

The book is tricky. The entire reason her political base likes her is because she is not an elite or to not use code words, she is not well-read or well-informed. In order to write a book anyone would read Sarah Baracuda would have to write an Election 08 tell-all. Other than that, I think we already have an idea of who she is and what she thinks.

Once the tell-all is in the can it's on to founding a foundation which will also take some care in plainning. Sarah boosters don't get excited over building houses for poor people and for reasons outlined above a think tank is completely out of the question. She could always build houses for some crossover appeal, but if you're indifferent to the Way of the Palin, that won't change with some pressboard and a nail gun. If she were to dance with the ones that brung her, The Palin Foundation would have to support either the reapeal of gun control laws, establishing the U.S. as a Christian nation, dismantling the U.N. or closing down Americorps.

That brings us to yesterday when Project Palin undertook what may have been the easiest function of its agenda. Palin gave a speech to a group of investors in Hong Kong. The event was closed to the press, but I did hear that she was a little at a loss when she began talking trash about Barack Obama and no one responded with a death threat or false accusation about his heritage. No one even shouted his middle name Hussein.

Apparently the investors acutally sat and listened while Palin droned for a reported low six figures which proves that anything is possible. I have to make this make sense by guessing this CLSA group forked out the money for the innevitable publicity. I doubt they were clamoring for her wisdom.

And it all may be for nothing. At the "Value Voters" summit this past weekend it was Mike The Baptist Huckabee that pulled away from the pack in their 2012 straw poll. Palin's got her work cut out for her. How can she beat Huckabee? His middle name is Dale. If that doesn't help I'm out of ideas.