I thought a lot of Palin in 2008. The aftermath of the election and then some of the post-campaign revelations about what happened during that time made me raise an eyebrow.
Her sudden resignation (for financial reasons personally) is what really turned me sour on her. Someone who is constantly calling on others to “fight” and “carry on” and “take the tough choices” and then does the opposite themselves. It was striking to me at the time. The first thing she did after that was run off to LA to get a reality show contract. My eyebrows hike a bit further.
Then, this entire gorilla ballet that’s been playing out over the summer of whether she will or won’t....all the while she is doing absolutely nothing to build an actual national campaign network for anything like a POTUS run.
I hated watching it. It was clear there were a lot of people of were becoming very emotionally and financially involved in something, that from the outside, looked so very “not there.”
Palin has a serious and clear history of acting rashly and spontaneously.....not necessarily good things in a potential President when such stakes are on the line. She left the Governorship because of attack dog media and legal challenges, right? Would you have expected that same media and legal attack to have not been even worse were she to be POTUS? It doesn’t add up. The very reasons she stated for leaving AK Gov were also the very things she would have faced by a factor of 100 running for POTUS.
I think that Palin is rather indecisive when it comes to things. I think that she may have been thinking seriously of a run since 2008 and ramped that effort up in the Spring........only to have some cold reality come flying up and slap her in the face. Most polling not good, very poor attempt at a national organization, etc. The decision may have been made in just the last few days and, if so, that’s worrisome too.
Other things don’t add up as well. Apparently the network wanted another season of “SP’s Alaska” and she turned it down. Fox has publicly stated they are looking to separate from her. I’m not sure, apart from Twitter/Facebook, where her public outlet will be. She’s not going to wind up on CNN or MSNBC or the Alphabets.
Her name will stay alive for a while, where and how I’m not sure, but I have no idea what her “big picture” plan is. I’m not sure at all that she does either......
Yup, I’m with you.
She definitely played this way too long.
Some people see her as a brilliant genius,
endlessly manipulating the evil media and left.
Perhaps these are the same people that see Obama
as another Einstein. Sorry, not buying it for either
of them.
No more Idols: Conservatives should never be sucked into
personality cults.
The hardest thing for me to swallow today is that the Left & the MSM assessed her character more accurately than I did.