Will Herman Cain's demise see Sarah Palin return?

AS FORMER Republican frontrunner Herman Cain looks likely to exit the race for next November's presidential election, the GOP right's one-time darling, Sarah Palin, has been called back to the fray.
 
The Daily Beast claims that Cain has told his campaign staffers he is "reassessing" his run in light of recent allegations that he'd had a 13-year extramarital affair which only ended shortly before he launched his bid for the party nomination.
 
"We have to do an assessment as to whether or not this is going to create too much of a cloud in some peoples’ minds as to whether or not they should support us going forward," said Cain, who has already faced accusations of sexual harassment during his six-month campaign.
 
Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Sarah Palin and her supporters have moved swiftly to profit from Cain's probable demise. Conservatives4Palin have paid $6,500 to run an advertisement called 'The Challenge' tonight in the Sioux City television market in the state of Iowa.
 
The TV spot, a rather hastily assembled ragtag collection of Palin speeches decrying President Obama and the corrupt American political system, and singing her own praises in fighting said system, finishes with Palin being exhorted: 'Run Sarah run!'.
 
Iowa is the first state that goes to the polls to choose the Republican candidate in a caucus that will be held on January 3. A good result there has in the past helped launch outsider candidates - and has also been the political graveyard for frontrunners.
 
Palin never formally committed herself to running for the candidacy, encouraging the press to play a "Will-she, won't-she?" guessing game until her chances appeared to have been fatally damaged by revelations of drug use and adultery in a muck-raking biography, as The Week reported at the time. ·