what if Palin slips her handlers and goes "nuclear"?

This scenario could occur. Palin could see her chance at power slipping away and decide to go off the reservation and try to win this thing on her own terms. She could make deals unilaterally. She could go nuclear on Obama. She could try to leverage her own power base.

Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.

n/t

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You know, since she doesn't really read.

but has probably fallen a bit behind, what with her exhaustive schedule of avoiding the press...

I think Palin would do just about anything to get power, and I think it would be a complete disaster if she had power. I don't think going out on her own would benefit her any though.

But she will have actually recieved approval on the downlow. This way McCain can have whatever benefit there is in doing such a thing, while maintaining plausable deniability.

But appear to be her own (forgive me) thought.

the McCain campaign can cut off her travel dollars. So they do have some control - though of course it would be awful PR if they actually did that. Another rock hardplace moment for McGrumpy.

I mean really take over the insider machinery of the party. She'll probably get some allies from the fundies, but i would expect some blowback from the libertarians (Ron Paul wing) and the White Collar Criminal wing (Bush, et al)

And if you thought getting Howard Dean as head of the DNC was a bloodbath....

Lord almighty, I'm scaring myself here. She would find funding, no doubt. She is willing to do whatever someone wants done in order to gain the reins of power.

She is already attacking his authority.

If the polls hold and he goes down, she's going to make sure Republicans know that it was not her fault.

Or maybe we should all sit back and let her immolate herself and the McCain campaign with a series of increasingly wild ("erratic") assertions in a vain attempt to sink Obama/Biden while Obama focuses on the issues.
It's hard to say which would be more effective. If, as in the case of Wright, McCain has previously condemned such attacks and taken them "off the table", Obama has an opening to confront him about it and call for him to rein in his little "pitbull", which could definitely lead to some interesting power struggles between McCain and Palin, particularly if it is as pronounced as some people claim it to be. Nevertheless, the stage seems to have been set for some good intra-party fracas

Umm.....pass the salt, please?
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You mean she can go off even crazier?