If I was Sarah Palin

I'd go with the "I was Drunk" defense at this point.
Her patently moronic explanation of Paul Revere's ride (which she thinks has something to do with firearm confiscation) is only exceeded by her cringe worthy subsequent clarification. The crowning touch is Palin's counter thrust which classifies a simple query over the Old North Church as "a gotcha question".

This is in the annals of all time quick questions along with "2 + 2" and "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb."

But as I've said before, the woman is reigning queen of the GOP Clown Car...No Doubt About that.

David Bernstein seems to think that

If Sarah Palin piles into the GOP Presidential race that it will ultimately be "Advantage Romney" as it will force the ditherers and fence sitters among the Republican Power Elite to back Mitt to prevent Sarah's Tea Partiers from taking over the whole conservative shebang.


That is a logical possibility to say the least.

Humble Elias on the other hand thinks that maybe just maybe Romney versus Palin might be just the short of "war in heaven" scenario that will ultimately destroy the GOP, as far as 2012 is concerned.
Impossible?
It has happened before, Rockefeller versus Goldwater in 1964, where was the GOP Power Elite then? Dithering and fishing for some safe nullity who could snaffle the nomination away from the two intransigent battlers...They failed, Goldwater was nominated and then the roof caved in on Election Day.
Then there is Reagan versus Ford in 1976, Ford had to bribe, promise, bribe, promise and dance a miserable little self hating jig and still he just barely got the GOP nomination despite being an incumbent US President for Cthulu's sake! All this did nothing but set Jerry up for defeat that fall agin' Carter.
All I know about Mitt Romney is that he is a very serious misogynist, he hates women in politics, republican or democrat. If you don't believe me ask Governors Jane Swift, Shannon O'Brien or Kerry Healey of Massachusetts.
He may not win the nomination for President in 2012, but he will make damn sure that Sarah Palin never gets within a thousand yards of the White House even if it means breaking the GOP.
Sarah Palin is as soft as puppy dog shit, but she is bitter and resentful and very good and working her base into a frenzy.
So to my way of thinking it is Romney's misogyny versus Palin's rage...and as for the ditherers and maachers in the GOP? They may not get any leverage over that conflict at all, history shows they aren't omnipotent.
That is assuming that Palin gets in,since prematurely exiting the Alaskan Governorship all she has done is demonstrated a taste for easy conservative welfare money and snarkage.

David Bernstein from da Boston Phoenix

one of the best local political reporters still extracting a paycheck from the game, was kind enough to answer my question over on his blog.

Enjoy....

Romney announces for President...

and yammers on like a declinist fool, Sarah Palin blows into New Hampshire like a busted Teen Idol and the both of them are knocked off the top fold of the Globe by a deadly cluster of tornadoes.
You could actually almost enjoy the irony if it didn't cost lives and livelihoods.
Meanwhile over in the Metro Section, Brian McGrory manfully huff on the embers of Mitt Romney's moderate republican cred trying to ignite some sort a blaze.
This passage is signficant:
Watching Romney’s speech yesterday was a little like going back in time, back to 2002 when he won the election for Massachusetts governor by effectively portraying himself as a straightforward, business-minded outsider who would get caught in none of the traps that snare lifelong, overly ambitious politicians.
Geez, Brian is heavily invested in the Romney-is-a-Moderate meme isn't he?
Indeed there is a whole cadre of professional huffers at the Boston Globe who are desperate to portray the former Viceroy as a nice inoffensive Middle of the roader.
Indeed, the Herald is in the tank for Romney as well, you'd think they'd mark out hard for Palin or Santorum or some other gaudy weirdo, but no last time I checked One Herald Square was guzzling Willard's near-beer with gusto.
No man who believes in so little save his own good can rise so far without apologists, and of those Mitt has plenty.
Thus we enter 2012 with the same native class of huffers that excused, projected and frankly fantasized ad nauseum about Romney for over a decade now.
Palin is right about one thing though, Romney isn't a conservative, nor is he a moderate. The modalities of the GOP Presidential Primaries though, compel him to pretend (badly) to be a hardcore wingnut...In reality though, Mitt is a perfect opportunist uninterested in ideology unless it can help him win.
The huffers of course, don't get that.

Mitt Romney announces for President...

Given the current round of wild weather, his timing is as usual, terrible.
Still and all that, who knew Mitt Romney was a whiny old declinist?
I mean not for nothing but this country has transferred trillions of dollars in tax breaks and other financial goodies to his native OverClass, and all Mitt can do is bitch and moan about the end of rugged individualism in the USA?
Ingrate, thass what he is...no other word for it. Oh well, Mitt is off to a churlish and indefensible start, did you expect anything else?

The Governor's Hair is Turning Gray

and after last night, I can Gawd-damn well see why.

I hope all of you out there came thru this mother all right....

Per Today's Globe

Former US Senator Rick "High Pitched Rich" Santorum has made seventeen trips to New Hampshire in the past fourteen months and rates about two percent in the most recent GOP Presidential Primary Polling.
I can see his problem right away, he started out as the US Senate's premiere incendiary Fred Van Ackermanesque nutjob, ranting and raving into the C-Span cameras about anal sex and how society was to blame for the clerical sex scandals.
It was lurid and riveting stuff, akin to watching the explosive bolts that hold together Santorum's psyche finally detonate live on CNN.
AS would-be US Dictators go, he was definitely one who had mastered the art of invective.
These days he is trudging around NH trying to lay off the gruesome stuff and find some way to reach out to the Granite State's famously hard to please conservative electorate.
The result is, he is languishing below five percent, bad karma I'd hate to see Santorum drop out but unless he starts howling for blood and dynamite I don't see how he can advance in the rankings.
He has come out for Representative Ryan's fabled "family annihilator" budget, the one that abolishes medicare and gives the elderly a fifteen thousand dollar voucher to buy a shiny tombstone in it's place.
That is akin to the old explosive Rick Santorum, lets see more of that Rick!