I would also like to know what he thinks would continue Palin's strength as a "kingmaker" in the event that she doesn't run?
nopardons is correct in post #12 when he points out what is oddly invisible to Steyn: If Palin doesn't run, she is a NOBODY and who cares what she has to say?
Steyn's disappointing and sad suggestion is to take a perfectly ripe opportunity and a unique asset to a limited government movement growing in Americans, and chuck 'em both in the trash heap. I get the sense that Steyn is coming from a place of fear. Not fear of Palin, but fear of losing against what he imagines to be rote; he fears her supporters aren't real.
All for the illusion of "safety" in the status quo of business-as-usual mules like Pawlenty.
I don't understand WHY I have been getting an argument/resistance about what I posted, as it is just common sense and a fact of life, for as long as this nation has existed.
Palin has but one shot and that time is now; not in some future universe/time period.
Harold Stassen ran and ran and ran and became the puchline of many a joke.
Romney's father ran for president a couple of times. Nobody ever gave a damn about what he had to say after his first loss. Oh hell, they didn't care during the first one!
Pawlenty hasn't a chance, neither do Newt, Paul, Romney, Cain, or Daniels!
West isn't running, neither is Jindal, and Christi doesn't stand a chance, even IF he is forced into it, which I doubt he will give in to.