While She Had Pros Flummoxed, I Had Sarah Palin Figured

I've already made the greatest prediction ever and things are moving my way for maybe making the second greatest prediction ever. Now, it looks like I had Sarah Palin's strategy sussed months ago while the media and the professional pundits were utterly confounded.

Check out her latest signals:

"Is a campaign too shackling?" she mused. As the GOP's 2008 vice presidential nominee, Palin said she felt encumbered by "handlers." Running for office "prohibits the freedom one needs to really make a difference," said the self-described "rogue" politician.

Added Palin: "You don't need a title to make a difference."

and compare them with this analysis that I made back in May:

Sarah Palin Is Shooting for Something Bigger Than the Presidency

I think I know what Sarah Palin is up to. I also think I know why the media is totally flummoxed about her intentions. She's going to do what nobody has really ever done, she's going to defeat a sitting President...without running for President herself.

She's going to energize not just "the base", but the entire population of the country that is not an Obama-bot. She's going to tour the country, rallying people for a rebirth of liberty, a re-commitment to the constitutional framework of limited government, and the first step in that process is to put an end to the Obama presidency. She's going to tell America that the GOP field is good, and certainly "good enough" for the task at hand, which is getting back to the energetic, independent, individualistic, innovative free people that we once were and rejecting a future of dependency and government control of every aspect of our lives. She is going to rally people for this cause and make sure they don't sit at home and view another four years of Barack Obama as a fait accompli.

She will be a one woman counter-balance to the MSM, which will be in overdrive aiding and abetting Obama's re-election. She going to whip up every Tea Party chapter across the land into a frenzy of activity and grass roots momentum. She (a woman - did you notice that Debbie Wasserman Schultz?) is going to be the talisman of the Republican Party. She's going to ensure that nobody sits 2012 out, that 2012 will not just be an election, but an inflection point for America. She's going to bury Hope and Change, and clear a path for Act II of the Reagan Revolution. She's going to attempt to steer the course of American history. That's a big task. She obviously feels that it's gonna take a woman to get it done.

But she won't run, which is why the media doesn't understand the plan. The idea is creative politics, it's selfless, it's principled, it end-runs the power of the media, and it's bigger than the Presidency - all things that the MSM just can't understand.

Who knows, maybe she's just bowing out and slinking home to Alaska, but I don't think so...