The rest of the article (which did not need to be excerpted from the NY Daily News):
Sometimes, very awkwardly. After appearing to bogart Romney’s spotlight in the weeks before he formally announced his campaign (and even on the very day that he did), Palin called it merely “coincidental” that her schedule always seemed to coincide with his. And through gritted teeth, he told the media that he didn’t mind her popping up.
Getting Palin — who warned in June that attracting Tea Party support would be “a big challenge” for Romney — to give him her imprimatur is no small undertaking, but one that Romney shouldn’t write off as a lost cause.
After all, stranger things have happened. Just last week, none other than Romney’s 2008 nemesis, Mike Huckabee, suggested that conservatives were probably going to have to just accept Romney as their nominee, prompting some pundits to predict that a once-unthinkable Huckabee endorsement of Romney is next.
Ann Coulter, who spent months trying — and failing — to persuade New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to run for President, has also come around, telling “Morning Joe” viewers on Tuesday that she has retracted her earlier declaration that Romney cannot beat President Obama.
And when Christie announced he was endorsing Romney (a huge coup for Mitt from the wildly popular, take-no-prisoners governor), some suggested there must have been a deal of some kind — the promise of a cabinet position, perhaps? — for someone as principled as Christie to back someone as mealy-mouthed as Mitt.
And let’s not forget Tim Pawlenty, who spent weeks on the campaign trail almost attacking Romney on his health care position, only to end up as his campaign’s national co-chairman.
So why not Palin? It could be argued that she needs him, too. Palin has received relatively little attention since her bus tour ended, and will presumably want to play a significant role in the 2012 election. Her supporters, who are set to unveil new ads in Iowa begging her to reconsider a run, won’t likely get what they want — the filing deadline to get on some state ballots has passed.
But coming out early in support of Romney will set her up to make valuable campaign appearances, without looking like a late-coming bandwagoner. Backing the presumptive nominee will also make her look serious and pragmatic, and less the uninformed ideologue that her detractors insist she remains.
Alas, a Mitt and Sarah partnership probably isn’t in the cards. He isn’t likely to chase her approval, and I imagine Palin will get behind a candidate who’s far more incendiary, like Newt Gingrich.
But Mitt Romney has horse sense, as they like to say in the South. He’s a very smart guy. And, bless his heart, he’s run a very disciplined campaign. But if he wants to win the GOP nomination, and appeal not only to moderates but to conservatives in the general election, he needs to pucker up and plant one on someone like Palin. It could just be a match made in heaven.
Piss on Romney
HA!
It could be better argued that Palin definitely does NOT need Romney.
If either Romney or Obama win in 2012, Alaska will definitely be the last frontier refuge for Americans.
Cold? Don't worry about that. The flames and embers from the defunct USA mainland will create enough global warming to turn Alaska into a tropical paradise, complete with banana and orange groves.
You like rapists and backstabbers, too, RomneyBOT?
Are you REALLY in the right site?
Why do you say that Romney is the presumptive nominee?
Why do you label supporting Romney "pragmatic"?
It would be very difficult for Sarah to do anything worse.
It would be seen as the ultimate cynical sellout of everything that makes her attractive in the first place.
I don’t know what her plans are, but blowing her foot off at the kneecap are probably not among them.