The question is, somebody tell me what real difference would it make if Palin was President? Would Fox News become less popular? Would Americans realize she is an idiot and all turn into Democrats or progressives? Would Teabaggers suddenly discover they are pawns in the hands of the wealthy and corporations?

She will do what the GOP always does.  Even if a Democrat were to beat her, Obama's accomplishments are not likely to be seen again this decade no matter who is in office. The country is broke, we can't afford another war. Congress cannot be expected to do anything of significance, except reducing entitlements and screwing the middle class and poor, which is likely  to happen sooner or later, the rich on Wall Street will never see their taxes going up or their hegemony in Wash. DC usurped,

Obama has already cried Uncle and Petraeus is going to keep the Afghan War going far past his own retirement, to 2016 and beyond, while we negotiate peace with impostors.  There will be no peace agreement in Israel, no stability in Iraq, and the Taliban will never stop fighting.

Sure, with Palin in, the dollar will likely drop faster as investors wonder what is going on here, oil will go up, but maybe the Chinese will step in to fill the gap. Some really bad appointments to the Supreme Court? Its already full of them. I would imagine a 4-year crusade, session after session, on fetus protection, gun rights, anchor/terror babies, border walls, gay bashing, health and school vouchers, medicaid/CHIP cuts etc. etc., very close to what we have now in many states. Starting next month the economy and the unemployed, or under employed, will be on their own anyway, as Boehner takes over the House.

If things got really bad the GOP base would just flock to the New New Breed of conservatives in the next GOP primaries. Sorry to be negative, but the story on the Pakistani impostor who got "in the low 6 figures" and free NATO plane rides to participate in 'early stages' of peace talks with Karzai, combined with the crotch checks at US airports has me thinking our politicians are too carried away with BS/politics/GWOT/the next election/money for the next election to do anything much good anytime soon for the country at large, and too many voters are too dumb to know it.

I believe what you say is very probable.  She is an excellent newsreader / celebrity spokesperson. 

Any idea who her power brokers are?  Are they the same ones who run RightChange.com.  If so, watch out because her chances are even better than I suspect.

Maybe the major parties should go back to picking their candidates in private, now probably smoke-free rooms.  The primary system seems too prone to demagoguery.

Palin and her followers are firm believers in what I call the the dummy down grading, also known as grade inflation.

Suppose you are a teacher and you give a test to your students. Once you grade the test you realize no one score above D. So instead of failing everyone, you give the highest score a weight of 100 and the rest fall into place so everyone passes. It doesn't take much imagination to see those student actually believing they know more than they really do.

Now take that example and couple it with Palin, her MILF Party and tea-baggers and you'll see my point. They're all the dullest tools in the shed, but they prance around as if they're they have the keenest political savvy equal to that of the founding fathers.

If Palin does win in 2012, the only thing I can say is what Robert Redford said at the close of The Candidate...What do we do now?