According to a Gallup Poll released yesterday that asked Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who they wanted to see nominated for president in 2012, the number one pick was Sarah Palin. Just thinking about Palin as president makes my eyes wobble.

Of course, such polls are meaningless — polls just a year ago showed that most Republicans wanted Rudy Giuliani to be their nominee, but he couldn’t even win a single state in the primaries.

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