Remember how many news cycles were devoted to the idea that Hillary and Bill Clinton were quietly and treachorously undermining Barack Obama so Hillary could run in 2012 without Obama in the White House? Well it looks like that shoe is on the Republican foot. Sarah Baxter of the Sunday Times of London writes,

With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign. 

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Palin, 44, has led the character attacks on Obama in the belief that McCain may be throwing away the election and her chance of becoming vice-president. Her supporters think that if the Republican ticket loses on November 4, she should run for president in 2012.

A leading Republican consultant said: “A lot of conservatives are grumbling about what a poor job McCain is doing. They are rolling their eyes and saying, ‘Yes, a miracle could happen, but at this rate it is all over’.

“Sarah Palin is no fool. She sees the same thing and wants to salvage what she can. She is positioning herself for the future. Her best days could be in front of her. She wants to look as though she was the fighter, the person with the spunk who was out there taking it to the Democrats.”

So how many news cycles will be devoted to Palin's anti-McCain treachery?