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Where she has diminished herself though is from the bombshell she dropped.

There was no bombshell. Everyone who was willing to look at her actions objectively knew she was not laying serious groundwork to attain the highest office in the world.

I agree with your last paragraph. For those of us who thought this would end like this and tried to make warning signals, we were called haters and excoriated.

No human being deserves the kind of adoration and praise that was being heaped upon Sarah Palin. I'll say it again, if she looked like Helen Thomas, this would not have happened.

I am sorry for this. One of my very best friends spent her valuable time AND MONEY on this wild goose chase. Fortunately, it is over.

Can't disagree with your analysis on this post. Particularly the part of how those who were more cautious were treated. You're right; however, some were just nuts on the pro-Palin threads; repeating the same talking points ad nauseum and some just made ugly remarks(at the beginning). But even the reasonable comments were flamed.

It was a bombshell; using your own anecdote as an example.

Respectfully
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Thank You, CGG. I agree completely. But how many of us felt we could say that on FR before this?
The problem with being ‘called by God’ is that people who genuinely ARE, usually say ‘yes’. If Palin got a call from God, she said no and hung up.
As a Republican woman, I never liked her. There was always something FAKE about her, shallowness. She’s ALWAYS had a FAMILY- what’s new about that? They didn’t stop her from running for VP-did they? Suddenly, NOW they matter more than politics? More like she milked it for attention as long as she could without having to actually Deliver anything.
I don’t think she has the gravitas to be President and she knows it. She enjoyed the media attention, played it out, collected campaign contributions( refunds coming?) and TEASED as long as she could. When the wall came, and it was ‘put up’ time. She SHUT UP. The desperate ‘spin’ being put on it is just sad- and fascinating. Since when are QUITTERS more effective, and more noble, than those who fight and take the pain? Why are so many so desperate to excuse in Palin what we vilify in general?
Don’t you see the similarities between the ‘Obama is the ONE’ types and the Palinistas? She is their ‘savior’- same attitude re. Palin with some on our side. That kind of blind devotion and worship scares me.
Palin is Obama-White.