Mooseiah Complex

Always Wrong Bill Kristol seems to think that in 2014 if Sarah Palin runs for and wins the Senate seat currently held by Alaska Democrat Mark Begich, all will be forgiven in his eyes.

“I was for taking the gamble of putting her on the ticket, I don’t think it hurt the ticket in 2008,” Kristol explained. “I think her stepping down as governor of Alaska was a big problem. People don’t like to see a candidate, a governor, an executive — absent some medical reason or whatever — just leave office early. And she had been a good governor — incidentally — of Alaska until then. So, I think that is something, I think, she has to recover from in terms of being a serious leader in the party. Still has a lot of loyalty, still can shape the debate, she still has a great political touch.”

“I think the way Palin would possibly resurrect herself — if that’s the right word or rehabilitate herself, I think is a better way of putting it — run for Senate in Alaska in 2014,” he continued. “I’m not urging that. I’m just saying, if I were her adviser, I would say, ‘Take on the incumbent, you have to win a primary, then you have to beat an incumbent Democrat, it’s not easy.’”

“But if she did that, suddenly — if you can imagine that,” Kristol added, smiling. “Sarah Palin, freshman senator, January 2015 in Washington having beaten an incumbent. That would be pretty interesting.”

Sure, in the same way bubonic plague, nuclear waste sites, and telemarketer conventions are "interesting".  Kristol's not completely moronic, he wants the GOP to win back the Senate and Begich's seat is a big part of getting to 51.  He also knows that Sarah Palin has a better chance of winning -- or at least drawing national attention and fundraising millions -- than our old friend Human Disaster Area Joe Miller:  terrible at math, even worse at campaigning, quick on the trigger to assault journalists and bloggers who ask too many questions, and a sore-ass loser.  Miller's 2010 campaign against Lisa Murkowski was legendarily bad, and he's somehow running against Begich in 2014.

Despite Palin's approval rating in Alaska somewhere around the level of Milwaukee's Best beer, and the fact she'd lose to Begich by double digits, Miller would find a way to lose by triple digits.  So yeah, Moose Lady is the GOP's best shot in Honey Caribou Boo land.

That's the hook Bill Kristol is hanging his hat on.  It'll fall off halfway through, of course.