"Sarah's the one"

Alex Castellanos, a leading Republican strategist said that Mrs Palin could have a bright future. “It depends if she can return to being more than someone who rallies the conservative base.

“For a while, she was much more than that. She represented Americans frustrated with failed government in Washington. She wasn’t just a conservative, she was a populist. She was President Harry Truman, she was that Maggie Thatcher figure. She can become that again.”