Will be happy to illuminate you - for starters:
Newt was one of Palin’s staunchest and best defenders from the media attack when she was first picked by McCain. Someone like Palin does not forget that.
Newt was the last public figure to be excoriated in the press the way Palin does - giving them something very difficult and unique - in common. Very few folks have any idea what that is like.
They were both early to the energy movement: Palin with Drill Baby Drill and Newt with Drill Here, Drill Now.
Palin has commented positively about Newts debating skills and the way he presents his vision and defends it.
Now, he won’t pick her as VP and she would never run for VP again - but if he wins the nomination she’ll campaign for him and if he is elected I would call it 50-50 or better she is energy secretary, which will be one of the most powerful and important positions in the next administration .
You, sir, are one common sense poster - consistently.
You cite nothing but similarity with the exception of the actual “commented positively” Palin remarks. Of course Sarah would comment positively on anyone in the ‘R’ column - she’s still looking to influence ‘R’ politics. Your thinking that Sarah is tight with Newt is, at best, heavily larded with your own hope. At the conclusion of one recent interview with lengthy comments on Newty, she said that “anyone would be better than Barack Obama’. She is against big machine politics and the same ol’ same ol’. Newt, at his best, is highly unstable and clearly not a Constitutional conservative. He is, in fact, closer to Clinton in his ideals with the ‘Third Wave’ philosophy. Clearly, then, Sarah isn’t going to divorce Todd for Newty anytime soon. As far as Tea Party credentials and solid Palin support, forget it. Newton is a lost cause. If he extends a Cabinet post, she might take it, but only because it would afford advancing a Constitutional agenda in what would be, at best, a neutral administration.