From Kyle Hopkins in Anchorage --

The Wall Street Journal has a short item today on the Republican Governors Association picking new leadership, noting that Gov. Sarah Palin isn't on the list.

Yesterday, we talked to political science professor Frank Gilliam, dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs, about Palin's next move in national politics -- including a potential senate run. Gilliam, who'd been following coverage of Palin's appearance at the RGA meeting this week, had this to say:

"There is some concern inside the Republican party that she has been circumventing establishment Republican circles, that she has been running a media campaign of which the party's certainly not controlling and therefore either being self-anointed or media-anointed as the future of the Republican party."

And: "The party likes to control things. You know, they think they control money, they think they control state party machines, and she may decide that she doesn't need them, and that may be their concern."

That's going to sound familiar to anyone who was here for Palin's battle against the state GOP in 2006.