As Mitt Romney sat at his desk writing his next ‘why I should be president’ speech a flash of light streaked across the skies above and came to rest beside him.

Was it Mubarak leaving on a jet plane or a Hollywood star moving further to the left. No it was Palinpower..

‘Hi Mitt’ said Palinpower ‘just dropped in for a chat between us potential presidents’

‘Good to see you’ said Mitt ‘I take it this is just a fly-in fly-out visit. What can I do for you?’

‘Well Mitt’ said Palinpower ‘it’s like this. I’m obviously the Republican candidate for president with the best chance of cleaning up the Obama mess and the only person who can prevent that happening is you because there’s just a chance you could beat me to the nomination’

‘There’s more than a chance Palinpower’ said Mitt ‘I am the man’’

‘But Mitt’ said Palinpower ‘let’s be realistic here. You’re not in the same class as me when it comes to busting the president’s balls. It will take a tough, sexy, Alaskan, Tea Party, hockey mum with a huge hockey stick to do the job so I’m here to suggest you step aside for the sake of the party, the country and the Teabagger Tweeters of Texas. I might even make you my running mate’

‘Are you kidding?’ asked Mitt ‘you haven’t got a clue about international affairs and don’t have a single foreign policy’

‘That’s not true’ said Palinpower ‘I spend hours at the end of my garden studying Russia and someone sent me a policy from Brazil last week’

‘Look’ said Mitt ‘no-one respects what you’ve done for our party more than me but the only Americans who would benefit if you become president are the comedians who host the late night talk shows’

‘That’s hogwash’ said Palinpower ‘I would make huge savings by transferring the government from Washington to the council offices in Wasilla Alaska and that’s the ideal place to freeze government spending’

‘The truth is’ said Mitt ‘you lack the gravitas and authority of a president’

‘What are you inferring’ asked Palinpower ‘that I don’t send gangs to burgle the Democratic Party and I wouldn’t seduce White House interns even if they were male?’

‘What I mean’ said Mitt ‘is that when Hu Jintao comes to visit his expectations go beyond caribou shooting. Personally I believe if you gave up this ridiculous notion of becoming president you could become a major Hollywood star, a Wonder Woman who could do her own stunts’

‘Ok Mitt’ said Palinpower ‘the bottom line is that if you oppose me you will lose. This comes from no less an authority than the head of Tea Party strategic planning who read it in his tea leaves’

With that she was gone in a flash leaving Mitt to ponder that if anyone could break through the presidential glass ceiling it would probably be her.