Already trying to downplay the significance.

“Ending weeks of she-said, they-said drama, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin turned in a cameo appearance at the gala fundraising dinner for her party’s House and Senate candidates in Washington Monday night.

But in spite of all the back-and-forth between her camp and dinner organizers leading up to the event, Palin’s presence went little-noticed.

The Alaska Governor sat next to her husband, Todd Palin, at the table of National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn, but she didn’t make any public remarks.

If she hadn’t walked quickly across the stage the outset and if her presence hadn’t been mentioned briefly in the remarks of some of the evening’s speakers, it would have been hard to know that she had, in fact, shown up.

Palin’s decision to attend the dinner capped a dizzying weekend of reversals. On Sunday, POLITICO reported that Palin had decided to back out of the dinner after being told that she would not be making remarks. The reason: NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions was worried about upstaging the dinner’s keynote speaker, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

On Monday, just hours before the dinner kicked off, Palin reversed herself and said she would attend, even though she would not have a speaking role.”

As usual the Obama Apologetic (aka Politico) misses it. That Palin didn’t speak was designed being that her appearance was last minute. But the fact that she went is the key. Another note, all this talk of Gingrich being in the mix for 2012 is DOA.

I asked around the GOP committees here and that news gets a deer in the headlights response. As far as I’m concerned Gingrich is NOT the candidate which will get my support much less anyone nationally.

Let’s drop that idea right now.