OK, here is my prediction.
McCain gets elected thanks to a whistlestop tour of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He catches a nasty cold at his inaugural. President Palin steps forward! (Remember Wm Henry Harrison!)
Putin, meanwhile, becomes tired of the fiction that he is merely the Prime Minister of Russia. He boots his flunky Medvedev and reelects himself President of All the Russias. (Prezident vseia Rusi is I think the old term -- well, it was Tsar' vseia Rusi). He does the same old same old, conquers some small neighboring countries, cuts off oil and gas to Europeans whom he doesn't like, all that jazz.
President Palin calls a summit at some neutral spot -- but a neutral spot with darned good hunting possibilities! Maybe the Upper Peninsula of Michigan again. Or the Bialowieza forest in Poland, with the last European bison. Wherever. They go hunting large mammals together, guns in hand, and (mais naturellement) they fall in love. They dump their respective spouses and elope. The hyphenate their names to show that they are starting something new -- Putin-Palin, Palin-Putin, Put-Pal or Pal-Put. I don't care which.
They declare themselves co-presidents of the combined USA and Russian Federation...
McCain gets elected thanks to a whistlestop tour of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He catches a nasty cold at his inaugural. President Palin steps forward! (Remember Wm Henry Harrison!)
Putin, meanwhile, becomes tired of the fiction that he is merely the Prime Minister of Russia. He boots his flunky Medvedev and reelects himself President of All the Russias. (Prezident vseia Rusi is I think the old term -- well, it was Tsar' vseia Rusi). He does the same old same old, conquers some small neighboring countries, cuts off oil and gas to Europeans whom he doesn't like, all that jazz.
President Palin calls a summit at some neutral spot -- but a neutral spot with darned good hunting possibilities! Maybe the Upper Peninsula of Michigan again. Or the Bialowieza forest in Poland, with the last European bison. Wherever. They go hunting large mammals together, guns in hand, and (mais naturellement) they fall in love. They dump their respective spouses and elope. The hyphenate their names to show that they are starting something new -- Putin-Palin, Palin-Putin, Put-Pal or Pal-Put. I don't care which.
They declare themselves co-presidents of the combined USA and Russian Federation...