Please!!!! She just said she isn’t endorsing Newt or anybody else but wants to process to continue and that’s why Newt is the one to pick....she doesn’t want Mitt to run away with this thing, especially if he wins S.C.
We have to stop Mitt but to do that one had to be the guy in S.C. and since Newt is the second guy, he’s the one JUST for now
I heard her and I am quite confident I can read between the lines of her comments. Yes, she said Newt for now; for SC. That is all she can say, given her position as a Fox commentator, given the early stage of the race too.
But she does not want the process to continue so the process may continue. You are probably not a woman, Bigtigermike, so that may not make a lot of sense to you. Sorry ‘bout that! :)
She wants the process to continue because she doesn’t want Romney to be nominated. (Clue: “Moderate” is not a nice word in the Palin dictionary.)
If she didn’t favor Newt she could have “walked back” the Todd Palin endorsement of Newt.
If she didn’t favor Newt she could have said that right now she would, if she were a South Carolinian, vote for Santorum, who tied with Romney in Iowa.
For that matter, if continuing the process were an end in itself, she could have said she’d vote for Ron Paul, who has a better claim to the anti-Romney crown than two Ricks and a Newt combined.