On another note, your story about Palin's appearance at the Indiana RTL event would seem to implicate her as a part of the 'GOP establishment' in your mind. As you infer, it would be Bopp (from Indiana) who got her to do it. You also suggest it was to 'redeem' Steele (who I have little regard for). Are you also suggesting that Sarah wanted to help in this endeavor and is as much a patsy to the 'GOP establishment' as you suggest Santorum is?
Sarah Palin did it out of sincerity, but I believe she was used by the organizers to give Steele a platform to redeem himself after his Roe comments and Rush comments.