Supposedly liberal website predicts Sarah Palin victory in 2016.

This according to OpEd News:

SarahPAC went right on collecting cash while rumors swirled about whether or not the darling of the tea party would mount a 2012 presidential campaign. That continuing fund-raising convinced many politicos that Sarah Palin would enter the fray and fight for next year's GOP nomination. But by choosing not to run in 2012, Gov. Palin showed she was thinking one step ahead of most observers. As she told Greta Van Susteren, "I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office." 

That is to say, if the GOP can simply prevent resounding Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, and keep President Obama's legislative agenda handcuffed, Palin will be in prime position to be elected our 45th president in November 2016. 

Despite a stagnant American economy and festering unemployment, President Obama is taking in more money --by a lot--than any of his Republican rivals. Is he vulnerable to defeat in 2012? Yes, vulnerable. But between his burgeoning campaign warchest and the flagging popularity of those on both sides of the aisle, the smart money is still on his likely re-election. A pragmatic Sarah Palin knows it isn't time to strike. Nominees only get one shot in the general, and she doesn't want to waste hers now. She sees that 2016 could very well be a Republican cakewalk if the GOP plays its cards right, and that is where she has her laser focus.

So long as Democrats do not both have control of the House as well as 60 Senators, and it seems a near-certainty they will not, Republicans should be able to prevent President Obama from accomplishing any of his policy initiatives. So long as his attempts to repair a flailing economy are frustrated, and high unemployment rates are strategically maintained, the court of public opinion will deem his an unproductive, ineffective eight years and the GOP nominee will coast to a 2016 victory in much the way Obama did in 2008. 

Gov. Palin knows the winning play is also the patient one. It should be relatively easy, with the political savvy House and Senate Republicans have already shown they possess, to continue hamstringing President Obama's stabs at the "hope and change" he sold to voters in 2008. 

A patriot like Sarah Palin knows the national political stage is set for a patient pragmatist. And in about five years President Palin will be rewarded. 

This is the kind of talk that literally makes my head feel like it will explode. And supposedly this is from a LIBERAL website!

OpEd News describes itself as "progressive, tough, and liberal."  However perhaps they should focus on being "intelligent, well researched, reality based." 

I am in absolute agree that if the progressives don't pull their collective heads out of their collective asses and help elect some good Democrats for the Congress and Senate in 2012, that the Repugs will DEFINITELY play "rope-a-dope" with the President until 2016.

And YES that means their candidate, whoever that may be, will have their best chance ever of taking back the White House.

However the idea that Palin will be able to take advantage of that opening is laughable on its face.

Number one the Republicans are NEVER going to throw away such a golden opportunity to get a strong, intelligent, conservative into office after Obama's second term. And those qualifications leave the Grizzled Mama completely out in the cold.

Second in another five years the vile old crone will look like a dried up old prune, and the only thing that got her any national attention at all, her looks, will no longer even be enough to get her a free drink at closing time in the Mugshot Saloon in Wasilla.

And third what the hell is this talk about a "patient pragmatist?"

Do they know NOTHING about Sarah Palin?

The woman is one of the most impulsive, over reactive, and careless people to ever ever into the world of politics. Which makes me believe that the author of this piece, Rico Rhodes, must either be joking, high, or both.

I mean seriously, what the hell is wrong with some people? Are they TRYING to give the children of America nightmares?

By the way, as you can imagine, this piece is sending the Palin-bots into an frenzy of excitement. Dip-shits.