Yes, seriously.
If you seriously think Palpatine would have less resistance to the One Ring influence than a fuzzy foot hobbit, I don't know what to tell you.
Well, I do know what to tell you.
That "fuzzy foot hobbit" is harder for the Ring to subvert, because with such a being it has far less to work with. Hobbits simply are not power-hungry. And being innocents, they have a level of Divine protection that a wicked man like Palpatine does not.
From the Ring's viewpoint, being carried around by a Hobbit beats just lying on the bottom of the river, but only because it helps towards its goal of getting back to its master.
Palpatine is a man that controlled his dark side degradation ambition and hatred sitting in the same room with the people he despised for decades and has clung to life after death for almost 40 years.
Saying the Senate is "only human" is like saying Hercules or Jesus was only human.
I must have missed the bit in the movies where it was stated that Palpatine was either a demigod or a Divine incarnation.
Tolkiens writing puts the importance of willpower throughout his works.
Willpower is only one aspect it. Rely on stength of will alone, and you might find that Sauron knows Judo, so to speak.
Saruman was a being a far greater willpower and overall personal might than Denethor, but Saruman was subverted by Sauron and Denethor was not.
Why? Because the
White Multi-Color Wizard had abandoned his mission and his loyalties in his pursuit of power, while Denethor, Steward of Gondor, was fiercely loyal to his office and his people.
Sauron could only drive Denethor to despair, but not change his loyalities.
As for Palpatine desiring the ring's power...
Palpatine always craved power, but unlike the Sith of Old(well legends) he have never pursued empowerment by external sources. He never tried to make empowering artifacts nor did he pursue existing artifacts. He is well aware of the detrimental effects such things bring.
So it would not be in his modus operandi to defeat an opponent and try to take whatever empowering amulet his enemy used to harness its power. Palpatine like all rule of two Siths are self-made people.
He is more likely to try to destroy the Horcrux to get rid of his enemy permanently.
Dude, where are you getting this? Are we talking about the same person?
The guy who was trying to dominate the whole galaxy using a honking huge battlestation, massive fleets of warships, etc etc? Those look like external devices of power to me.
(IMHO, it was foolish of Palpy to allow the Death Star to be under the command of anyone but himself. Tarkin could have killed him with it and taken over the Empire himself. But that's a whole 'nother debate)
He only needs to carry the ring for an hour at best to drop it in the fire. And no one is forcing him to do it himself. He can have a patsy to carry the ring and if this hired help is corrupted The Senate can always kick him together with the ring in the lava. No skin of his back.
Better plan yet - don't allow any living being to touch the Ring. If you want it carried to the Fire, get C3P0 to do it.
But no, you don't need to be touching the Ring for it to be able to mess with your mind. Boromir never got to hold it.
So yes Palpatine is a power-hungry madman, but he is a power-hungry madman with a self-imposed moral code. If he was an athlete he would not take steroids.
Sure.... a moral code that will make him pass up literal immortality.