People can see the light, but I’d make many a foolish mistake in my professional career as an attorney if I took every “new leaf” song and dance at face value. Trust but verify. There’s no backstory to Trump’s conversion. It’s fake. Believe it if you want to. I ain’t goin’ there.
And Christie conservative? Only upon the loosest definition. Yes, a fiscal hawk, but pro-gun-control, anti-life, and dangerously soft on Islamism? Not my definition of conservative.
Walker’s not running.
Palin, OTOH, is electable. The rubric is simple. Win the GOP nomination (FiveThirtyEight shows how she might do it), and present herself as the only viable alternative to Obama in the general. The indies will come to her side, albeit kicking and screaming. And once she gets a good marketing campaign going, she’ll easily overcome the high negatives and start reassembling the Reagan coalition, because, unlike Hillary’s and Obama’s high negatives, hers are entirely fake, manufactured by a media scared to death of a gun-toting, God-fearin’ country girl. Don’t misunderestimate her.