December 9, 2009 11:33AM # Who Wants to Make Sarah Palin the Leader of the Republican Party? By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) --- SHARE Could it be the *Washington Post*? Bannered across the top of the *Post*’s op-ed page today is a piece titled “[Copenhagen’s political science](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120803402.html?nav=hcmodule),” titularly authored by Sarah Palin. I’m delighted to see the *Post* publishing an op-ed critical of the questionable science behind the Copenhagen conference and the demands for massive regulations to deal with “climate change.” But Sarah Palin? Of all the experts and political leaders a great newspaper might call on for a critical look at the science behind global warming, Sarah Palin? What’s even more interesting is that the *Post* also ran [an op-ed by Palin](http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/1786025531.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+14%2C+2009&author=Sarah+Palin&desc=The+%27Cap+And+Tax%27+Dead+End) in July. But during this entire year, the *Post* has not run any op-eds by such credible and accomplished Republicans as Gov. Mitch Daniels; former governors Mitt Romney or Gary Johnson; Sen. John Thune; or indeed former governor Mike Huckabee, who might be Palin’s chief rival for the social-conservative vote. You might almost think the *Post* wanted Palin to be seen as a leader of Republicans. I should note that during the past year the *Post* has run one op-ed each from John McCain, Bobby Jindal, Newt Gingrich, and Tim Pawlenty. (And for people who don’t read well, I should note that when I call the people above “credible and accomplished,” that’s not an endorsement for any political office.) Still, it’s the rare political leader who gets two Post op-eds in six months, and rarer still the *Post* op-eds by ex-governors who can’t name a newspaper that they read. ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).