If you're not running against him, would you blindside your own party's front-runner? Especially when he seems to be the only person in the party who's running and who could possibly win both the nomination and the general election?
It seems like a strange thing to do -- but if you're Sarah Palin, maybe you'd do it. Maybe you feel 100% confident that Romney can be vanquished, and that the party won't despise those responsible for the purge. And maybe you realize that you have a lot of company.
After all, last week we learned that the #1 goal of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks is to stop Romney in 2012. And today we read this:
The Western Representation PAC, a Nevada-based group led by the infamous former Alaska Senate candidate and Tea Party darling Joe Miller, launched its "Stop Romney" campaign today, designed to prevent Romney from becoming the GOP candidate.
Laugh if you want, but the co-founder and chief strategist of this group is Dustin Stockton, who hangs with Sal Russo, the chief honcho of the Tea Party Express. This could be a lot of firepower.
And hell, even Joe Miller is probably not a joke among the crazy base -- I bet if he were a declared candidate for president, he'd be outpolling Jon Huntsman in Iowa. Then again, as we learned from a Public Policy Polling survey yesterday, who wouldn't be?
Jon Huntsman [is] 8th with 0% (only one respondent to the poll picked him.)
So if, as Jamie Malanowski argues, Palin is just faking interest in the presidency because it's what will keep her speaking fees high, then obviously she thinks an attack on Romney won't be seen, at the end of the day, as a betrayal of her party. Or she doesn't care if she falls out of the party's good graces, because the tea party is her real revenue stream.
When you objectively look at the situation, Sarah Palin is the number one recipient of Wingnut Welfare(tm). She commands ludicrous amounts of money just to exist as Sarah Palin, and the reason that works is because while she may make a terrible President, the one thing she excels at is playing Chase The Shiny Object with the Village Idiots. The Tea Party leaders get their cut, Palin gets her cut, and she gets to take a bus trip around the nation making the entire country's national political press corps follow her around like she's the only source of water in the entire desert.
She has been able to string the press along for over two years now. The last thing she wants to do is actually run for President when she gets twice the attention for none of the work by just dancing along the line.
She's playing the press, the Tea Party, and millions of people for fools, a grift job writ across the American map, and she's having the time of her life. For an avowed egomaniac, she's in absolute heaven right now, and she's smart enough not to blow it.
Eventually the press will get tired of her Presidential follies...and that's when the "Draft Sarah for Veep" party starts and we get to go through the "will she or won't she" garbage all over again next year too.
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