[Still Thinking]

I’m starting to think that Sarah and Newt have a plan, or, maybe, have had a plan all along.

Here's what I posted in another thread, plus a couple additional thoughts:

I've been developing a suspicion/fantasy that the plan is to keep WrongMee from getting over the top during the primaries, so there is some degree or other of brokered convention. Then Newt proposes a Palin/Gingrich or Gingrich/Palin ticket, and asks uncommitted and newly unbound (assuming they make it past round 1) delegates to vote for that ticket. A number of things are making me wonder about this:

• When Palin withdrew in October, she predicted an unusual nominating process, even using language some interpreted as alluding that she might be back in the running at convention time.
• When she bowed out, it seemed as if her objections were more to the rigors of campaigning rather than serving.
• She consistently refuses to endorse WrongMee, compliments Newt's strengths, and says he should stay in the race.
• None of the current candidates inspire the base like she would, so she might be very appealing to some of the delegates, given the distasteful alternatives
• If this is the plan, it might have begun as a contingency. When she withdrew (didn't run), there were a number of conservatives in the running. If one of them took the ring, fine, but this plan might have been the backup for the kind of catastrophe that faces the GOP now.
• From this very thread: This morning Gingrich said: "I'm not so sure you wouldn't get a series of brand new players stepping forward during a brokered convention" to Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep.
• Gingrich comes across as strangely untroubled, given the apparent disaster his campaign is suffering, as though he knows everything is proceeding at least reasonably according to plan.

[Amntn]

On Super Tuesday I was watching the coverage on CNN and they had someone in Alaska at Sarah's polling place. They stopped her and asked her a question about being at the convention. I wasn't paying attention and I don't know exactly what the question was but Sarah answered “you never know” with one of her sly grins.

The interviewer seemed to think there was something newsworthy there and the people in the studio said something to the effect that maybe Sarah had something up her sleeve but then they dropped it for some kind of breaking news and never brought it up again.

I wish I had been paying closer attention and knew what the question was but I have a hard time watching CNN without watering it down by doing something else when its on.