In Boston, Thursday, Sarah Palin suggested that Mitt Romney's "support of government mandates" in health care might doom his presidential hopes. Then she traveled to New Hampshire, her first such visit in three years, and held a clambake at a home just minutes from the site where potential GOP presidential rival Romney launched his campaign hours earlier. Palin insists that the timing of her visit is "coincidental." But Palin's "improbable coincidences" just keep piling up, says Jay Newton-Small in TIME. Is Palin trying to sabotage the GOP frontrunner?
Palin's gunning for Romney: Taken separately, her attention-grabbing trip to New Hampshire and her ill-informed criticism of Romney's health care positions could just plausibly be unrelated to Romney's big roll-out, says Jed Lewison in Daily Kos. But both in the same day? "It's pretty obvious that whether or not she's running, Palin intended to throw Romney under the bus."
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