It was vintage Sarahcuda all right. A truly beautiful thing.
Pray for a 3rd ballot in Tampa.
I told everyone eight months ago that Palin wasn't running. She didn't have an organization, didn't have staffers, didn't have state offices---all the things you have to have to win a nomination. People kept insulting me as "not understanding" her brilliant "unconventional" (the word most often used) campaign. So, I was right.
Now she has this incredible opportunity to STOP MITT. Stopping Romney will require ALL conservatives to unite behind either Santorum or Gingrich. Not a "not Romney." Not a "candidate to be named later."
There is a scene in "Hoosiers" where Gene Hackman introduces the guys who actually came out for the basketball team, not Jimmy, the star who hadn't shown up. "This is your team," he says. You either support them or not, but that's the team.
So does Palin endorse or really throw her resources behind anyone actually ON the team? No. She does the safe thing, throwing out another (great) red-meat speech---which like any of you I love---but which doesn't get use closer to actually defeating Obama. Rather, it has the effect of moving us one step closer to a Romney nomination.
This was one of our last opportunities to stop Romney, and it vanished in a rah-rah speech that had everybody standing and, in the end, Romney with the delegates.