According to his latest syndicated opinion column (via the The Seattle Times), columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. wants Alaska's former governor to run for and win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. And he's not kidding. Pitts believes that a Palin candidacy "would force upon this country a desperately needed moment of truth. It would require us to finally decide what kind of America we want to be." The choice Pitts would have America confront itself with is a simple one: "It would force us to decide once and for all whether we are permanently committed to the path of ignorance [ ... ] or whether we will at last turn back from the cliff toward which we race." Read more here.