I’ll have to differ with you on Palin. She’s their fallback plan in case liberty-lovers on the right don’t fall for the usual suspects. They would not give her the attention they do if she was a true threat to them, they would black her out. They did the same thing with her that they are doing with Perry in this article - focusing liberal hate on them so that conservatives think they are one of them without investigating the details too closely.
This concept of universal participation conspiracy is illogical and unsustainable.