Sarah Palin, Senator from New York?

There has been some very interesting buzz lately that Sarah and Todd Palin are looking at moving to Long Island. And, from the sound of it, we’re not talking about a second-home apartment-in-the-city kind of thing.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

“Finally, a question: Will Sarah actually move Outside, or just spend so much time out there that she’s not eligible for next year’s PFD? Citing a “very reliable” real estate dealer, a NYC blog is reporting she and Todd have been looking at houses around Hampton Bays on Long Island. “It seems that she started looking at smaller houses and has now graduated to looking at larger homes. Her husband is said to like the good fishing on Long Island. Perhaps the speculation about her planning a position with right wing Fox news is correct too,” writes Lily Loring on www.Gothamgirl.info.”

Everyone’s been scrambling to figure out why Palin made the strange decision to up and quit in the middle of her term as Alaska’s governor. Well, here we just might have the first clue into why she did it. Here’s the scenario…
Palin realized it was going to be incredibly difficult to conduct an unofficial campaign for President in either 2012 or 2016 as governor of far-away Alaska. Plus, it was going to be an awful messy and risky proposition to primary Alaska’s popular Republican Senator, Lisa Murkoswki, in 2012. Regarding Alaska as incompatible with her political ambitions, she decided to move to New York sometime in the next year, take a job with Fox News or some other conservative outlet where she could remain in the spotlight, and sit tight until the right Senate or Governor’s race came up (after all, they’re all Democrats). If she were able to get elected to one of those positions, she’d be well-placed to pursue a national campaign when the time is right.

Sound far-fetched? Well, that would have been my first reaction when Bobby Kennedy or Hillary Clinton decided to look at houses in New York.