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It is like the BCS. Does Marshall University have a chance to make the National Championship game ? NO...Unfortunately, you need a lot of money to run for President.

she needed to get out of Alaska, make some money and take control of her image.

Well, if that was the point, she's doing an awful job of controlling her image - everything she's done contradicts the image we should be seeing - that of a sound, thoughtful, and smart decision maker. Many conservatives want to support her, but she's created environment that makes it difficult to do so. She doesn't even have a good communication strategy - no one knows what the heck she's doing or why she did it. The only thing she has effectively communicated is that she sees herself as a victim of the media - while that may be true, at some point, you just gotta stop whining and finish the job you were elected to do well. Unfortunately, she didn't do that, and now no one knows what she's doing.

From what I'm seeing, she probably has a end goal in sight, but I don't think she's actually identified the steps/tasks she needs to reach that goal. It seems like everyone here thinks she got some grand strategy up her sleeve, but I don't think she does. What I've seen is more indicative of sloppy and impulsive decision making. No offense, but I don't think people are being objective enough about choosing capable leaders.

And for what it's worth, some of the best advice I ever received was from a retired officer. I was completing some tasks where the operating environment was unpredictable. He always told me to stop worrying about other people, possible outcomes, and all the stuff I couldn't control and just concentrate on the only thing I could control - my own actions and decisions. He also told me to never quit any task given to me unless someone else in authority told me to step down. Just my 2 cents, but I think Sarah Palin let everything she couldn't control drive her nuts. She only had 18 months left to go, the perfect amount of time where she could have gotten people used to the idea of the Lt. Governor taking over for the next term, and perhaps better identified what issues she wanted her PAC to concentrate on/generate more interest.

Maybe I am wrong and she actually has a brilliant grand strategy up her sleeve, but nothing we've seen seems to indicate this.