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Oct 14 2009, 5:50 pm by Chris Good

The Invisible Primary, 10/14

Tracking the GOP race to 2012

Sarah Palin will reportedly form a new political organization as her memoir hits bookstores in November; despite having predicted Palin would be a "catastrophic" nominee for the GOP in 2012, former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt defended the decision to pick her as VP nominee today; Tim Pawlenty addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition in DC today; Eric Cantor talked job-creation in a post at The Corner; Mike Pence met with local Republican activists and party officials in South Carolina this week; Rick Santorum will travel to North Carolina this month; Mike Huckabee will address the Conservative Party in upstate New York; and Newt Gingrich is getting sued by a photographer who claims he used her photos without permission in his 2006 book, Rediscovering God in America.

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Pineview1997

1. Palin: Quitter former governor from a tiny state the size of Memphis. Best known as butt of a SNL gig and Facebook powers.

2. Pawlenty: Zzzz.

3. Pence: Clad in a bulletproof vest and accompanied by St. John McCain, dozens of US soldiers, and watched by attack helicopters, he took a stroll through a Baghdad market and then declared it was "like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime."

4. Santorum: Google it. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex? He’s running or it’s running?

5. Huckabee: Evolution denier.

6. Gingrich: Divorced the first of his three wives while she had cancer. Divorced the second while pursuing Clinton over Lewinsky while he was having another affair with his now third wife.

Pineview1997 (Replying to: Pineview1997)

Forgot one!

7. Cantor: What should you do if you get sick and you’ve lost your health insurance? "Sell or auction all your belongings. After you reach a certain poverty threshold, apply for Medicaid, the federal medical insurance for the very poor. If that's not enough apply for indigent services."