Here's the Mitt Romney announcement that I live-blogged this morning:

Sharp stuff! You can see him trying to woo the Jewish vote in there, which is maybe the only ground Republicans think they can claim on the foreign policy front nowadays. I wonder what, exactly, Romney thinks puts us "inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy." Is it Obama's health care reform? Does that mean that Massachusetts is no longer a free market economy, thanks to Romney? Anyway: At about the same time, Sarah Palin was stealing Mitt's thunder by making not-quite-coherent statements while touring New England. According to ABC, here's Palin on why Romney won't win teabagger support:

"That perhaps will be a challenge for him because Tea Party activists are pretty strident in a good way in making sure that the candidate that many of these Tea Party candidates will support has the record of living out the principles the tea party tends to embrace, which of course is a smaller, smarter government," she said. "I think that he'll have maybe a bit more of a challenge with the independents who make up the Tea Party movement."

And here's the Washington Post's report on Palin's attack on Romneycare:

“In my opinion any mandate coming from government is not a good thing,” Palin told reporters outside Bunker Hill in Massachusetts...“[E]ven on a state level and even a local level, mandates coming from a governing body, it's tough for a lot of us independent Americans to accept, because we have great faith in the private sectors and our own families, and our own businessmen and women making decisions for ourselves.”

Romney is going to do his damndest to try to ignore Palin. Democrats hope she'll keep up the attacks. Truly, it's campaign season again.