Eyeing Iowa, Ctd

by Chris Bodenner

Gabriel Sherman suggests that Palin's upcoming Des Moines speech is a head fake:

For Palin, running for president is partly a kind of profit center. "It's an industry to write about Sarah and put her on TV," John Coale, the prominent Democratic lawyer and husband of Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren, told me. "We're two years into this and people are still fascinated by her. But, if she doesn't run, does she maintain this interest?"

In fact, in conversations in recent days...