RINOs Stampede Interrupted By Palin Bus Tour

So, to review recent events:

• Sarah Palin bought a house in Arizona.

• Sarah Palin commissioned a million-dollar documentary to be produced about her tenure as governor that will premiere in Iowa and then expand to South Carolina, New Hampshire and Nevada before expanding around the country.

• Sarah Palin will be going on a "One Nation Under God" bus tour of the country for the next few weeks starting in D.C. and first tackling the northeast before heading around the nation.

• Sarah Palin stated that she has "the fire in the belly" for a presidential run to Greta on Fox News.

• Sarah Palin repeatedly tells us that "November 2012 can't come soon enough."

• Sarah Palin ended her speech in Madison by uttering the now famous twitter hashtag of "Mr. President, Game on!"

• Sarah Palin hired a new foreign policy advisor, made a major foreign policy address and re-hired people responsible for arranging her travel and appearances.

And yet the media and RINO royalty of the GOP continue to tell us that she's not running because she hasn't yet greased their palms.

They've been on quite a losing streak as of late, however, so perhaps some pity is due.  First, they assured us that even if Palin got in, she was yesterday's news.  Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump would suck up all of her support.  Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann would suck up whatever scraps were left over.  She was done.

Then Mike Huckabee announced he wasn't running.

Then Donald Trump announced he wasn't running.

Uh Oh!  So then the RINO royal family began assuring us that we were all salivating over Haley Barbour, John Thune and especially Mitch Daniels.  Mitch Daniels this.  Mitch Daniels that.  We're all just waiting for him to enter the race.  Obama is scared of him.  The  media is impressed with him.  He has gravitas.  He's 4 foot 3.  He's so brilliant that he was George W. Bush's budget chairman.   He's the man to beat.  Nobody can touch him.  Laura Bush is calling his wife.  The Bush family is pushing him into the fray.  This despite the fact that nobody outside of the Hoosier state or the Bush family had ever heard of this political small wonder.

And this also in spite of the fact that virtually every public pronouncement from the lips of Daniels had been one of apologizing for conservatism or calling for retreat on major planks of the conservative agenda before the battle even started.  A profile in political courage he is not.

Then the unknown rockstar, Sir Mitch Daniels, decided to remain in Indiana.  Sadly for RINOs, this was after Barbour and Thune had also announced that they weren't getting in.

Now RINOs are left with the strategy of marginalizing Palin a la the media narrative that she's stupid and unqualified and pitting her against Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain, hoping to divide and conquer the very constituency that they owe whatever power they have in Washington to.

To be fair, that's probably the only shot the RINO royalty has left.

Their hopefuls aren't doing so well.  Newt Gingrich stepped right out of 1994 and into the primary to campaign as someone slightly to the right of Nancy Pelosi but to the left of the mainstream Democratic party.  He attacked Paul Ryan's budget as "right wing social engineering" and then claimed that he didn't mean what he said.  His candidacy is flatlining before even the August Iowa straw poll.

Their boy Mitt, who never met a policy position he didn't delight in flip-flopping on, decided that the one issue he wouldn't flip on was the glory of socialized medicine.  Romneycare (also known as Obamacare's kid brother) has been a fiscal nightmare and has resulted in worsening healthcare conditions in the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts and yet Mitt still beams with pride over it.

So calculating and condescending is Romney, that he thinks voters will fall for his spirited defense of his own individual mandate and governmental usurpation of the healthcare industry if he simultaneously attacks Obama for doing the exact same thing.   Breathtakingly, Romney was able to both praise his own individual mandate-laden healthcare debacle while attacking Obama's.

And he wonders why grassroots folks don't trust him!

And then there's Tim Pawlenty.  He talks a good game and seems like a nice guy.  He's by far the best of the RINO farm team, but he lacks a certain...pulse.  His record as governor (of which I am admittedly not an expert) was spotty at best.  He governed as a moderate that only began drifting more to the right as the bright lights of 2012 drew closer.  He also comes off as a little bit of a Jan Brady-type these days commenting that people shouldn't be "worried about a bus tour" while commending himself ad nauseam about a pithy tweet he authored regarding Obama's european pub crawl.

Sarah Palin's One Nation tour coupled with the release of "The Undefeated" documentary indicates that she is going to run for president.  It also demonstrates the amount of attention she can get and just how politically savvy she is.  Palin's candidacy is no largely only a matter of "when" not "if."

As it stands today, most polling shows Palin nearly tied with Romney for the lead.  While it is early to speculate, it does appear that the 2012 GOP primary will become a RINO vs. tea party smack-down.  Palin will vie with Paul, Bachmann (if she runs) and Cain for the tea party vote, while Romney will duke it out with Gingrich and Pawlenty for the RINO love.  Santorum won't really be much of a factor either way.

In that scenario, the race will quickly settle into a race between the titular heads of each faction, which is likely to be a Romney and Palin showdown.  And that is a race that Palin can win decisively.

So as Palin's bus tour hits sites of importance in the exceptional history of America, look for her numbers and "electability" question to dramatically improve.  Her invitation to "join the fundamental restoration of America" is one that will resound with the American people.  Her outsider, non-politician, non-status quo identity when properly seen through retail politicking, dynamic commercials and the documentary covering her true decades long political history of success in defying the corrupt establishment of both parties will resound powerfully with the American electorate.

Make no mistake, the Palin bus tour is about to turn the RINO stampede and their donkey counterparts into roadkill.  Game on indeed!