[the invisib1e hand]

not quite. and it’s a mark of her character that she made her decision knowing full well there would be an idiot’s chorus singing this tune.

[Aqua225]

That sounds like the theory for AGW.

It’s hot - global warming
It’s cold - global warming
Weather is good - global warming
Weather is bad - global warming

So you would have been saying the same thing either way.

She is a quitter, but I am glad she is. If she had ran as a third party, she would have guaranteed Obama a second term by default.

[LS]

I don't know about character, but I would say intelligence: I think all along she knew that she had certain polling hurdles to overcome, and I'm convinced she had a pollster checking this during the bus tour and during the showings of "Undefeated," and that the meter didn't move. So long as she never entered the race, she never had to be embarrassed by single digit poll numbers among "real" candidates.

Who knows how she would have done in debates? But does anyone think she'd have gotten any softer questions than the junk they threw at Perry? Nope.

[dawn53]

I wasn’t pro-Palin, I said so a few times. Why? I believed her story had been written, and that she could not overcome the negative press that she had gotten in the 2008 election. Too soon in the election cycle, because the American voter, for the most part, is influenced by the media.

So I said what I thought, occasionally. I was raked over the coals every time I expressed the least bit of trepidation about a Palin candidacy. Look at my history, this was seldom mentioned by me, but to hear others respond to my posts, it would seem like every day I was on FR posting negatives about Palin (which obviously was not the case.)

Now I find it kind of odd that those who trusted her to “save” our country, don’t trust her to make the right decision about whether to run or not. They’re mad, disappointed, questioning her motives...it strikes me as rather odd, the fickleness of the Palinistas.