Palin: Stevens' Sidekick or Alaska's Maverick?

Sarah Palin is missing out on an opportunity to be a maverick.

Instead of calling the Chair of the Old Boyz network to step down, she is leaving it up to him. How mavericky is that? Here is the woman whose every second sentence has the word maverick, not willing to do what requires hardly an ounce of courage. Stevens is now a convicted felon, one who could not vote for himself (but can run for office, can you believe that?), and Sarah Barracuda Maverick Palin cannot stand up to him.

Clearly the window to show maverickyness has closed long time ago. She could have called on Stevens a couple of months ago to step down and give someone else the chance to compete for the GOP. She did not do it.

Ask yourselves why?

Because Ted Stevens probably has more dirt on Palin than McCain vetting, or not, could ever find. More dirt than Obama's so called wolves sent to Alaska could find under the rug in just two months. Ted Stevens is the man in Alaska. He runs the whole damn COUNTRY. If Palin crosses him, even from jail, he will get her.

Why should she?

Were she leading in the polls, you betcha she would have call for Stevens to step down. By now, she realizes that when all the $150,000 clothes are returned, she will go back to Alaska and deal with the locals who love Stevens. He has brought the bacon home for years and the loyalists are not ready to forget that. Why upset them? For what? For the White House, hell yeah. But there is no White House it looks like. In a situation like this, follow the McCain Mavericky Doctrine Axiomatic principle:

BE A MAVERICK WHEN THE REWARDS FAR OUTWEIGH THE RISK.

Here, the risk is clearly to alienate Alaskans. The reward, I can't find one. In four years, America will forget about Ted Stevens. In 8 years, Alaska will not forget about Ted Stevens. That's the bottom line.