[Patriam1066]

haha mandalore who are you for dude? Can't believe you guys like Stannis and Baelish, they remind me of Dick Cheney

Davos 2016.
As to what you're all saying about Sansa, I agree to a point. But the problem is, at least for book 6, how much can she really do? She can kill Baelish at will probably, but while the Iron Throne is in the hands of people who have a suspicion that Sansa was involved in Joffrey's assassination, she really doesn't have much going for her. She's safe in the Vale, but while there isn't more chaos in King's Landing, she doesn't have a good play outside of biding her time with Baelish. Why kill the only man who has a reason to keep you safe, when the rest of the realm, including lunatics like the Boltons, would like to marry her for Winterfell and the North?

I think it's far more likely that she will start manipulating Petyr, and depending on what transpires in the Winds of Winter, at some point in A Dream of Spring she can kill him or let him be killed.

As for Baelish' chances at winning in real life (as if this were a medieval fantasy instead of one with dragons), I don't know how much a lowborn man could accomplish. He could marry Sansa, and ascend the ladder that way, but what northern lord would kneel before him as the Warden of the North? I think Baelish is an interesting character who played his hand about as well as anyone did in ASOIAF, but unless he's working to put someone else on the throne, like Varys or something, I believe most of what he's done will ultimately be in vain. In that way, Martin did seem to make the books into something mirroring life (aside from magic/sorcery/undead/mythical creatures). Baelish' hubris, vanity, and ambition will get him killed, which is the case for a man like him. He is a man of many talents, but he never possessed wisdom. After all, we're all in agreement that the daughter of a girl he loved 20 something years ago is going to be his downfall. Talk about holding on past a point of being creepy... when a 16 year old girl is what gets you killed, you would not have been king in RL.

In contrast, Davos is wise, caring, has a huge dick (7 sons), and is legit as fuck. He obviously isn't going to sit the Iron Throne but I'm still cheering him on until he's 6 feet under.

I'm more or less being comical because I honestly have no idea what will happen, but I'd be SHOCKED if Baelish took the throne. Being clever and being wise are two different things, and most of the characters that we see fall are either honorable to the point of stupidity or immoral to the point of guaranteeing cosmic justice. Baelish seems to be the latter.

FINALLY, I listened to bryndenbfish or whatever's podcast on Dany's possible storyline in Book 6... seems very plausible. I hope to god he's wrong though