1) Perry and Bachmann team up, Perry choosing Bachmann as the running mate to steal some of the religious right / values voters (a mixed bag, as he would be 'reassuring' the Tea Party at the expense of many moderates and ALL Democrats)
2) Palin stumbles -- either a gaffe while under intense pressure: she has survived the barrage but has not been under a microscope in *quite* the same was as during the campaign. (As a private citizen, it was just Joe McGinniss outside her yard; as a candidate, it'll be half the "press corpse") OR a completely lousy choice for VP (I think with her background, she will NOT pick any of the likely choices for VP, just as she herself was a surprise). However, I must confess I literally cannot come up with a plausible dark-horse for her VP who will shore up her weakness on defense / foreign policy, while still being conservative or an unknown. (An unknown would give credibility to the cries of "gravitas" and "Caribou Barbie" in a way that an old hand would not.) The two most likely choices I can see would be Congressman West (still too green for the White House) or General Petraeus (military credibility up the yin-yang but don't know his campaigning skills or conservatism).
Cheers!
Interesting ploy re: Perry/Bachmann, though I don’t think it would work. I don’t see where Palin has anyone strong on foreign affairs that she’d have to apologize for her own gubernatorial background. West as a first term congressman would be disastrous IMO and Petraeus unnecessarily risky. I say she goes with another guv so she can keep to her executive outside Washington theme. Daniels would do, bringing congressional experience as well. Perry probably just blew it, as I suspect he was telling her he was really on her team until a week or two ago.
Cheers.
Is this sarcasm? Palin already has a plethora of gaffes to her credit..