electricity. does palin need the party as much as the party needs palin? is she out to make money or out to make change? does he want to live as a private citizen or run for president? what's next for sarah? >> what she's been doing, and her role has been, and she's been very impactful at it, inserting those base principles that are at the heart of conservatism. she knows how to say them in ways that people can understand them and repeat them. >> i know there are people out there who politically attack her because they're afraid of her. they're afraid that she is a political force and is the easiest and best way to get rid of someone you're afraid of is to destroy them. >> let's say she just says, no, i'm not interested in 2012, then what's her role? >> well, some people manage by ideas, by energy, by drive. you know, teddy kennedy lost the presidential nomination to jimmy carter in 1980, and yet teddy was for 30 years one of the dominant figures in the