Dorian de Wind, 05.05.2011

Ret. U.S. Air Force Major

Do you remember what you were doing, saying or writing while President Obama was planning this mission? Donald Trump, for one, was claiming that Obama might not be a real American.

Jerry Kremer, 04.26.2011

Chairman, Empire Government Strategies

Sarah Palin will go down in the history books as having done substantial damage to her party not in one election, but in two. There is not much glory in being the only woman who had two bites of the political apple and failed both times.

Bob Cesca, 05.03.2011

Host of the Bob and Elvis Show

Palin, who has repeatedly botched the meaning of the First Amendment, had the audacity to school eight of the nine Supreme Court justices, including the very conservative chief justice, on the First Amendment.

Lesleyann Coker, 04.12.2011

Journalist, Co-author of 'Boob Tube'

Sarah Palin is a master of self-immolation. In the month since the horrific shooting in Tucson, Palin squandered an opportunity to help mend the coun...

Robert J. Elisberg, 03.23.2011

Political writer and screenwriter

Being heard is not a problem -- being taken seriously, that's becoming a lost cause. We should be grateful that she pronounces most of her complaints on Twitter, since 140 characters seems to be the limit of her depth.

Sheldon Filger, 03.23.2011

Founder, GlobalEconomicCrisis.com

Though undoubtedly campaigning in 2008 with the noblest of intentions, it is looking increasingly likely that Barack Obama will enter the history books as not only a one-term president, but also a valiant but deeply flawed failure.

Rep. John Yarmuth, 03.23.2011

We have a dangerous dearth of credibility in the United States these days, and when no one has the confidence of a majority of Americans, there is fertile ground for con artists and demagogues. Sarah Palin understands this.

Jacob Heilbrunn, 03.23.2011

Author, "They Knew They Were Right: the Rise of the Neocons"

Palin's latest stunt -- confusing North and South Korea -- is further testimony to her unique contribution to American politics. Without her, it would all be so much more boring.

Robert Reich, 03.23.2011

Fmr. Secretary of Labor; Professor at Berkeley; Author, Aftershock: 'The Next Economy and America's Future'

The Palin Strategy is to circumvent the Republican establishment. That's why her path to the Republican nomination isn't the usual insider game. It's a celebrity game -- a snark-fest with the nation's entire white working class.

Dan Dorfman, 03.23.2011

Financial Columnist, Market Commentator

Don't write off Barack Obama yet. That's the assessment of William Hill, one of the world's most influential bookmakers who boasts a pretty imposing record in picking winners in the U.S. presidential sweepstakes.

HuffPost TV, 03.23.2011

HuffPost's Sam Stein joined USA Today's Susan Page Thursday on "Hardball" to discuss Sarah Palin and her possible bid for president in 2012, along wit...

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"), 03.23.2011

Managing Editor of themudflats.net

Internal emails obtained by The Mudflats provide the most conclusive evidence to date that Palin will be running for president, and also indicate a behind-the-scenes rift between the Palins and an Alaskan candidate.

Dan Dorfman, 03.23.2011

Financial Columnist, Market Commentator

For a change of pace, here's a different kind of look at the political scene -- insight from HuffPost readers who offer who they think will be the big political newsmakers in 2012.

Brendan Nyhan, 03.23.2011

Political scientist and media critic

The claim that Sarah Palin is the front-runner for the 2012 GOP nomination is wildly premature. It's worth underscoring just how bad Palin's poll numbers are.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 03.23.2011

Author and political analyst

Palin is the most polarizing Republican since Lincoln. If the GOP were crazy enough to nominate Palin, the 2012 election would make the FDR-Hoover and Johnson-Goldwater landslides look positively benign.

Bob Cesca, 03.23.2011

Host of the Bob and Elvis Show

What better way to put a face and voice to the increasingly regional, homogenized, sophophobic GOP than to nominate Haley Barbour for president?

Geoffrey Dunn, 03.23.2011

Author, The Lies of Sarah Palin

Palin continues to cast herself as a victim of a sinister "partisan" conspiracy directed by Obama's White House against her. It's a sad joke that reveals the Palin camp's cultish paranoia and abject dishonesty.

Tina Dupuy, 03.23.2011

Nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning writer

The more Palin is excused, rationalized and hyped by the right-wing, the more she'll become a symbol of cynicism for conservatives. If they're peddling Palin, it shows they've given up.

Ed Kilgore, 03.23.2011

Managing Editor of The Democratic Strategist

It's far past time to stop pretending that Palin is just a joke. Her performance in Nashville was taken seriously by the kind of people who dominate the Republican nominating process.

Joan E. Dowlin, 03.23.2011

Freelance musician and French hornist

Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin is entertaining.

Steve Marmel, 03.23.2011

Marmel is a comedian, a writer and a TV producer. It's not as impressive as it sounds.

Never before has there been somebody so clearly hypocritical, so obviously agenda-based, and so unabashedly opportunistic in her demagoguery and indignation as Sarah Palin.