Where is Mrs. Palin?? Right where she should be...waiting. Strategically, it is not time for her to announce.
She'll wait until the furor, arm waving, empty rhetoric, of the field has settled into the one or two clear "front runners". It makes no sense for her to add her "$0.02" to the fracas as at this point in time, as an official candidate.
She's watching, learning, absorbing.... she is doing a "reconnisance in force"...learning her opponents strengths and weaknesses; learning about the views of the common American out there on the bus trail, all from the relative safety of "non candidacy".....as she should.
She has time....time to reconnoiter....time to watch and see if the stain is able to turn things around...or not.
"Down the road" so to speak, she'll determine if she believes that the then front runners will be able to make the critical difference....to be what she believes could save this country. If she finds one who can, she'll support them, and likely get them elected. If she finds the same wasteland that exists today, ....she'll enter.
Timeline: probably late fall or early winter, 2011 to January, 2012.
Watch how she operates from now till then....she is brilliant....
And be patient....learn with her....trust....she's very much with us.
Out of 1200 posts, yours is the most cogent. As Rush would say, RIGHT ON, right on!
I see Impy copied you on another thread giving the reasons for not waiting any longer.
You two need to come to some kind of agreement.
:)
You have an excellent point there.
I have predicted July 20-Aug 1st, this year.
Kennedy declared in Jan of the year he was elected.
Others have declared in the fall of the year before.
This is a new phenomenon, candidates declaring so early.
It's a media thing, so many of them are stuck on what the media wants. To their detriment in most cases.
Plus when one jumps in, others think they had better do so too.
I like your idea, waiting until the majority of them self-destruct or burn out.
Romney having been given the green light as the next in line (or maybe Gingrich too?) by the GOP will still be around and a strong contender as the leftist media have chosen him to be the one to lose to Obama.
Palin is scary to both sides.