Why Palin Volunteers Should Quit, Whether She's Running or Not (Smell their FEAR!!)

The Atlantic ^ | July 5, 2011 | Conor Friedersdorf, Associate Editor

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If Sarah Palin has already decided against running for president, is it callous of her to tacitly encourage the dozens of volunteers working to burnish her image? That's the "delicate question" posed by Scott Conroy after meeting some of them on a visit to Iowa. In a long dispatch from the Hawkeye State, he mentions Peter Singleton, considered by many to be the former Alaska governor's leading operative, despite the fact that he isn't officially affiliated with her, and Michelle McCormick, a 28-year-old Texas woman whose story makes me both hope and despair for the United States.

For McCormick, it all began with a letter:

An unassuming 28-year-old north Texan who works in the oil and gas industry, McCormick had experienced a family crisis similar to the one that had befallen Palin's family when the former Alaska governor's daughter Bristol became pregnant in 2008. McCormick wanted to let Palin know that how the vice presidential candidate handled the situation while in the national spotlight helped guide McCormick through her own family difficulties.

McCormick didn't harbor much hope that she would get a response, but about three weeks later she received a personal reply from Palin. Six months later, McCormick now spends every weekend (and an increasing number of weekdays) in the nation's first voting state of Iowa attending GOP Central Committee meetings, collecting names of activists in counties across the state, and doing other volunteer organizing in advance of a Palin presidential campaign that she considers inevitable. "If she was willing to take the time to respond to somebody who is a nobody in Texas, that just shows me what kind of heart she has," McCormick told RCP.....

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At some point it will become more of a negative than a postive to delay and at that point Palin will announce. At the moment it is a positve. It think she has another month or two. More like the end of july before she has to take steps to firm up the concept that she will run.

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"If Sarah Palin has already decided against running for president, is it callous of her to tacitly encourage the dozens of volunteers working to burnish her image?" That's the "delicate question"...

It's not a delicate question at all, and in fact, for anyone with a modicum of intelligence and reasoning ability, the question answers itself.

Governor Palin has been well aware of the kind of 'broken glass' support she has across the nation, since the time of the 2008 campaign. She, more than anyone alive, knows that there are millions upon millions of Americans who very much want to see her become the 45th president.

Knowing this, there's no doubt in my mind that she made her choice to run, a long time ago. Her personal mores and sense of ethics had to have compelled her to face this question, and to make a firm choice, sometime within the last year.

There is no way that she would allow her millions of supporters to wait in nail-biting anticipation for her announcement, if she had chosen not to run. She would have nipped all of the speculation in the bud last year, if this were the case.

She hasn't announced for strategic reasons only. It's coming. She's running.

Palin 2012

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Dear Palin supporter...

“Better to have donated 80 hours of your life to the ACLU...”

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THAT WAS A GOOD ONE! Yep, we’ll all work for the ACLU. This is a spoof, right?

[W. W. SMITH]

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