As Michele Bachmann was seated at her desk in Washington penning another vitriolic anti-Obama diatribe a flash of light streaked across the skies above and came to rest beside her.

Was it a feral broomstick from the latest production of Mary Poppins or another express delivery from Gaddafi to the White House?

No it was Palinpower.

‘Hi Michele’ said Palinpower ‘just dropped in for a chat about presidential stuff’

‘Well hi Palinpower, great to see you’ said Michele ‘I take it you’ve come to tell me that you’re backing my bid for the presidency’

‘No not exactly’ said Palinpower ‘I came to ask you to support my bid’

‘Let me be very frank’ said Michele ‘there’s only room for one overbearing, overpowering, over-hyped and over fifty Tea Party female in the presidential race and that’s got to be me because you’re only forty-seven’

‘Give me a break’ said Palinpower ‘you stand about as much chance of being elected president as the number three hooker in Gaddafi’s harem’

‘And you stand about as much chance as anyone born in Kenya’ said Michele ‘with the exception of Obama’

‘Look at my track record’ said Palinpower ‘Mayor of Wasilla, Governor of Alaska, vice-presidential candidate and the darling of the Tea Party’

‘That’s absolute crap’ said Michele ‘I’m the darling of the Tea Party because I wrote the book on how to make our tea-cup runneth over and you’d do well to take a leaf out of it’

‘But I’m restoring honor to America’ said Palinpower ‘by calling for smaller government and huge spending cuts’

‘You’re all talk’ said Michele ‘I was standing behind John Boehner with a ten foot pole forcing him back into the White House to get the cuts we need’

‘But we’re trillions in debt’ said Palinpower ‘and he was only thrown chicken-feed’

‘That’s just for starters’ said Michele ‘My next strategy is to shut down the Obama government for two years and wipe out our national debt by saving trillions in spending’

‘But I’m more charismatic’ said Palinpower ‘and more glamorous, and I come from Alaska so you’ve got no chance of freezing me out’

‘I’m leading the campaign to tag Obama as anti-American’ said Michele ‘We didn’t win the Cold War to enable this global warming fanatic run the country’

‘That’s absolutely right’ said Palinpower ‘You know Michele we’re so alike you and I. We shouldn’t fight like this but we should run on a joint Tea Party ticket’

‘Brilliant idea Palinpower’ said Michele ‘but you’d have to run a better vice-presidential campaign with me than you did with McCain’

‘You know Michele’ said Palinpower ‘I have my vices but I’m not prepared to acquire another one running with you. If you want the virtue of being my vice give me a call’

With that she was gone in a flash leaving Michele to ponder that the chances of Palinpower entering the presidential race were still very much up in the air.