Palin did a perfect job of lobing a turd into the Oval Office punch bowl by calling for Obama to replace Joe with Hillary. There’s no way he be seen to be taking orders from Palin.
There was a discussion here yesterday about why Sarah Palin was “helping” Obama by giving him advice. She always seems to be one step ahead of everyone else; I am sure she saw this coming and made the “suggestion” to either prevent it or as you say throwing “a turd into the Oval Office punch bowl”.
The funny thing is that part of the discussion was from people asking why when Gov. Palin suggested it... it was brilliant, but when McLame said the same thing it was frowned upon. That is because McLame really seems to always be trying to help the other side.