Maybe it is weird and conspiracy-theorist to wonder who's pulling Sarah Palin's strings. However, since she's managed to stay in the limelight — certainly possible on her own given her adoring fans, and "write" legible Facebook posts and op eds, it did make me pause to think who's managing her.

So far, no one else has been interested, which I guess does make me a kook. I don't understand why no one is interested. It seems to be the most important question. Behind every dim politician is a group of people feeding them lines, policy points, speeches.

Take Palin's speech when she resigned from governor, for example, penned by her own hand. It's written much as she speaks, when she speaks free-form: meandering, lacking focus, peppered with Random Capitalization, phrases in ALL CAPS, and random "quotation marks" around phrases.

And ACES - another bipartisan effort - is working as intended and industry is publicly acknowledging its success. Our new oil and gas "clear and equitable formula" is so Alaskans will no longer be taken advantage of. ACES incentivizes NEW exploration and development and JOBS that were previously not going to happen with a monopolized North Slope oil basin. We cleaned up previously accepted unethical actions; we ushered in bi-partisan Ethics Reform.

In contrast, Palin's op-ed writing is remarkably well-written and focused.

Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs. In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.

Am I looking a tad less insane now? How could one look at those two pieces of writing and even imagine they came from the same person?

This thought hasn't monopolized my time. It would just pop in my head every time she "wrote" an op ed or spoke about the need to drill, baby, drill. However, in the past couple days, I read two snippets that stuck with me.

The first was a snippet about Iran from this morning's Fox News Sunday.

WALLACE: How hard do you think President Obama would be to defeat in 2012? PALIN: It depends on a few things, say he played — I got this from Buchanan — say he played the war card. Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decide to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel–which I would like him to do. That changes the dynamics of what we can assume will happen between now and three years. Because I think if the election were today, Obama would not be elected.

She also mentioned supporting Israel in that quote.

The second mentions how she's making appearances festooned with not only an American flag pin, but an Israeli flag pin as well.

So, Palin's talking about how great it would be to start a war with Iran, and shows an immense support for Israel.

These are two of the primary issues for the neoconservative movement: supporting Israel, and starting wars in the Middle East. I'm not a scholar of neoconservatism so I don't know historically why this is so. Perhaps a reader can educate me.

My guess: the Foreign Policy Institute, the newest stomping ground for neocon "thinkers" and Robert Kagan, Bill Kristol, and Dan Senor, it's board of directors, are managing Sarah Palin's career.

Besides support for Israel and starting baseless wars in the Middle East, note the convergence between Palin's op eds opposing cap and trade and health reform — the only two she's penned so far that I know of — and Bill Kristol's belief that these latter two issues are two of the three biggest issues for today's GOP.

If I really want to get into speculative territory, I'll speculate that Bill Kristol is writing Palin's op eds and overseeing her Facebook posts. :) But I won't just yet. Perhaps an analysis of writing styles would help, but I don't have time or knowledge for that.

So, just throwing that out there.