The broad outlines of the GOP presidential stakes are coming into focus, and it ain’t a pretty picture.
Ms. Palin’s campaign handlers have clearly and repeatedly tried for an upstaging strategy. She pulled it on Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, and now she’s pulled it for the Ames Straw Poll, showing up with her bus at the Iowa State Fair over the weekend.
And, Rick Perry played “upstage” by announcing his neo-Confederate/Dominionist candidacy in South Carolina as the selfsame “Straw Poll” was taking place. Continue reading
