Sarah Palin anoints Newt Gingrich | Ana Marie Cox

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Sarah Palin anoints Newt Gingrich | Ana Marie Cox

Well, there’s a sort of logic: it takes a grandstanding prima donna to know oneThe American people figured out Palin’s irrelevance before the media did; it was only last October that we stopped doing the polls that gave them the chance to tell us that. Now, Palin’s endorsement of Newt Gingrich ahead of the South Carolina primary may say more about Gingrich than it does about Palin – which is what endorsements are supposed to do, though in the upside-down world of modern politics, this is not how we usually talk about them.