[mrspeelwerneeded]

She is something else for that. I was a big supporter, but her behavior through this is not up to it. She can keep preaching. She’s nothing but an increasingly irrelevent whine. She has shackled herself with the way she has gone about this. Now she has lost a lot of respect.

[DJ MacWoW]

I think that you've missed some important points. If she had been a candidate when McGinniss book and a movie, just released in the last few days, had come out, the press would have used the smears and demand she answer them instead of talking policy. The stuff would have hit the fan. Sitting it out for awhile, the garbage blows over.

Also if she had jumped in early the other candidates would not have been vetted. It would have been Palin all the time.