The look my wife saw wasn't someone saddened by letting political supporters down: it was very much a look of one of the Dryads in C.S. Lewis's The Last Battle shuddering in agony as its host tree, miles away, was being chopped down with axes.
Palin was *scared*.
Let me get this completely straight here so we can put what you are claiming into perspective. Palin had done none of the serious things necessary to prepare for a presidential campaign. Fox News didn't think she was running for President and didn't suspend her. Palin ultimately declines to run for President. Palin offers an explanation which has nothing whatsoever to do with being "scared" of some mysterious threat. Palin then goes on to continue her job as commentator/analyst (earning her lots of money) which she uses as a platform to attack Obama and the Democrats regularly on the most popular cable news channel. And you are contending she is, well, lying about her reasons for not running. That her decision was because she was "scared" like some Dryads in a CS Lewis book. And when I try to point out that there is utterly, absolutely no evidence to support your theory and offer a more reasonable alternative for why Palin might have been hesitant to announce she wasn't running - you call me a troll. Which, by the way, is the very type of behavior and name calling that many members of FR were complaining about on this very thread.
You offered a conspiracy theory backed only by your wife's assertion that Palin looked like a "scared" Dryad from some novel. I told you that was silly and no evidence exists to support it. And you attack me? Your wife compares some expression Sarah had to a Dryad from a fantasy book, and this you expect me to take seriously absent ANY other evidence? Do you realize how utterly ridiculous you sound?
I'm going to make this as plain as I can. Sarah Palin did not decline to run for President because she was threatened and scared. She's a big girl and a lot tougher than that. You give her very little credit here. If someone really threatened her, Palin is more likely to do just the opposite of what they were demanding. It is far more likely that you just can't accept that Palin didn't run for President when you expected her to do so, and for that to make sense in your world requires you accept or invent some silly excuse about her being "scared" of some unknown threat. You know who is actually scared? You. You are scared to accept you were wrong about Palin's intentions, and you just can't admit it to yourself or anyone else.