Flap’s Links and Comments for May 10th on 08:44

These are my links for May 10th from 08:44 to 08:50:

• President 2012: The Tragedy of Sarah Palin? – From the moment Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.” But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska—the only record she has—shows a very different politician: one who worked with Democrats to tame Big Oil and solve the great problem at the heart of the state’s politics. That Sarah Palin might have set the nation on a different course. What went wrong?======

  An interesting analysis, read it all.

• Chris Christie praises Mitch Daniels, might back him if he runs – As top Republican fundraisers head to New Jersey in the hopes of persuading Chris Christie to leap into the presidential race, the New Jersey governor is heaping praise on Indiana’s chief executive.Continue Reading
  In a radio interview on Monday morning, Christie said he’d like to see a governor in the Oval Office.

  “He’s certainly somebody who I have enormous respect for and would give real consideration to supporting” Christie told talk radio host Chris Stigall, speaking of Mitch Daniels.

  “If you look at it, governors have tended to be some of our best presidents. That’s why I would lean in that direction,” he said.

  Daniels is weighing a run and is expected to announce his decision soon.

  Stigall — who calls himself an “unabashed, gushing” fan of the New Jersey governor — noted the number of likely candidates courting Chrstie’s support in Princeton.

  He’s already met with Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, and is set to sit down with Jon Huntsman in the coming week.

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  Read it all

  A courtesy shout out but would aid Daniels over the early start of Mitt Romney