Sarah Palin did two things in the first week of February to upset liberals. The first was when she called for the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The second was to make a pretty convincing case for why she may be hiring the next one.
The call for resignation sounds like a very bad joke. First, a group of senate democrats hatched the plan of attacking moderate members of their own organization, which Emanuel privately referred to as “f---ing retarded”. Since the relatively innocuous incident Rahm has been under fire, but not for the reasons you might think.
“The R-word is polluting our language,” said Special Olympic head Timothy Shriver, who apparently saw nothing wrong with the F-word. “Every day our community hears the word - in schools, in workplaces, in print and in movies, on radio and television. And every day they suffer its dehumanizing effects - mockery, stigma, ridicule.”
Emanuel met with Shriver to apologize, who took the opportunity to reject Emanuel’s apology and launch a campaign against the R-word almost no one is paying any attention to. Anyone that is, except for Sarah Palin, who is leveraging her own Down syndrome baby Trig into a political platform.
“Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking,” she wrote on her facebook page. But what is truly ironic is when Republican demagogue Rush Limbaugh defended Rahm’s use of the word, Palin gave him a free pass.
Nobody really thinks that Rahm was attacking the developmentally challenged, which is what makes this joke so funny. But, it would be unwise to think that Sarah Palin was just a joke.
On Feb. 7, Palin appeared before thousands of supporters at the “Taxed Enough Already” Party Rally in Nashville, Tenn., many of them chanting “run, Sarah, run” as she took direct aim at the current president.
“The Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb of big government,” she said. “How’s that hope-y, change-y stuff working out for you?”
Some polls already show Palin leading the race to champion the Republican Party in 2012, but it was at the TEA Party Palin made her most direct reference yet. Asked whether or not she would run in 2012, Palin replied “I would, if I believed that that was the right thing to do for

my country and for my family.”
However, others have questioned whether the TEA Party, which claims to oppose many of ex-President Bush’s tax policies as well as Obama’s, might not become a powerful third party in American politics.
“Both major parties, the "D" and the "R"s have both kind of lost their way in some respects,” Pain said following the event in her role as a FOX News analyst.
Palin has publicly stated she is not interested in leading the TEA Party movement, which prides itself on the grassroots nature of its organization, though she has committed to appearing again with them on April 14 in Boston.
Whether or not politicos agree with Palin’s statements will be a matter of much debate in the months to come. One statement is clear, however, from her attacks against both Rahm and Obama: Palin is back, and she has no intention of going away.