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SARAH PALIN, derided on the left and dismissed by the former vice-president Dick Cheney as a poor pick for 2008, is proving her enduring power in the Republican Party: she keeps picking winners.
Each of the five candidates she has endorsed this year in primaries or other campaigns has won, including the former Texan solicitor-general Ted Cruz, who beat the state's well-connected lieutenant-governor, David Dewhurst, for the Republican Senate nomination on Tuesday.
I wish I was as dumb as her when I buy my lottery tickets today......Ben