Think of it more like a chess game. It makes slightly more sense that way.
In the end, we will never know the real story here, only a few do, and something tells me that this.. person close to Sarah... is nothing other than some little functionary in Iowa who doesn’t know the full story either.
Having worked in the MSM for a few years, I assure you that “A person close to...” or the like is reporter shorthand for “Here’s what I believe but since they won’t let me write Op Eds, I gotta do it this way to get my crap out there and no one can prove otherwise because I can’t reveal my sources.”
I Swear to God. Truth.
Oh, I think we know the real story.
Sarah endorsed O’Donnell as payback for their support of Miller. Christine flamed out spectularly and has practically no support anywhere even in the “Tea Party”. Palin arranged to speak at this event for reasons that have been speculated to be a presidential announcement but no one really knows. Christine insinuated herself into the event because if Palin did announce she’d be guarenteed a lot of press herself as one of the speakers at the same event. This Tea Party group agreed to allow her to speak because their leaders are unwilling to admit what a horrendously radioactive and unstable candidate she was.
Full disclosure...I supported her to destroy Castle but I sure didn’t try and spin her as a good candidate. `At best she would have been a Harriet Miers “vote the right way” if elected but best kept out of the spotlight.
Palin understandably doesn’t want what cache she still has to be tainted by O’Donnell. And if she WAS planning on announcing for the Presidency having O’Donnell tag along as a back drop is a huge drag.
The problem for Palin is now that Christine is so closely linked to the event even if she didn’t speak you can guarentee any news reports of what happens there will include her in the coverage. And it doesn’t help her that she endorsed O’Donnell and is now publically running from her.
What she should have done was keep her date speaking there but arrange to “miss” any appearance with O’Donnell. If she had planned to make a major announcement then scrap it and immediately arrange an environment she would have been in full control of. She isn’t at fault for the actions of this coalition running the event but this drama was unnecessary and could have been avoided if she had a more talented team managing her affairs..