I have to agree with this. Palin isn’t involving herself in any of the dirty bloody work of campaigning. I disliked how she stated in the end that we have to “get behind the nominee”. Meanwhile, she only straddles the line and never commits to any particular candidate. If anything, she depresses the process by continually telling us that things should be prolonged and there are hints here and there of a certain moral equivalency amongst the candidates.
I think she secretly supports Newt, and maybe she’ll come out wit ha surprise endorsement at some point. However, I can’t really know her motivations or what she’s doing. All I see from her is half-answers, spectacular rhetoric, but no real commitments. She’s not putting herself on the line for anybody and is playing it safe.
I think Palin is between a rock and a hard place. While her support for a particular candidate might be viewed as a positive here, the MSM would latch onto it and use it to tear down that candidate because they hate Palin so much and did everything they could to ruin her and make her look ridiculous. And unfortunately they projected such a wierd image of her that most of the US probably thinks she’s one step away from the mental ward...or maybe the circus.
I think she’s aware of that, and that’s the reason for her reticence. An endorsement could backfire, in other words.
If Sarah were a risk taker, she would have run herself. If she wanted the pressure, she could have run herself. If she wanted to take on more of all that, she would have run herself. Expecting more from her than being beautiful and speaking what we each already speak is too much, given the path she chose instead. Thankfully, she doesn’t look like Barbara Mukulsky, so we listen, and Sarah draws seven figures because we do.