Sarah Palin will run for president, and will announce her candidacy sometime around Labor Day – perhaps September 3, when she’s scheduled to address a big Tea Party event in Iowa.

That’s what former Bush administration political advisor and all-around GOP smart guy Karl Rove predicts, anyway. In an appearance on Fox News Saturday he said he believes ex-Alaska governor Palin is going to run, in part because of a slick campaign-style video about her trip to the Iowa State Fair released by her PAC last week, and in part because of where she’s popping up….

Just look at her recent video. If it’s a campaign commercial, it’s a good one. It starts with quick shots of her bus, a rolling Iowa corn field, and the Iowa State Fair midway in full swing. There are adorable kids on parental shoulders, and then Palin herself appears, as voiceovers from news reports of her visit come up on the sound track.

And then – and we think this is really clever – there comes a quick rolling shot of a blue ribbon. “Iowa State Fair, Des Moines. First Place”, it says.

Palin's campaign would mark the first serious national effort by any conservative to come back from a post-modern Gramscian deconstruction attack.  If successful, a Palin victory would signify a serious weakening to the ablilty of Gramscians to control the popular mind.

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