[FreeReign]

If Palin backs the winner, her influence grows incredibly.... Oh, by the way, that observation is from about 40 years of covering DC politics.

No it doesn't.

A big part of Palin's monetary value is due to the possibility that she might be president. If she doesn't run, that value greatly decreases.

[Polybius]

A big part of Palin's monetary value is due to the possibility that she might be president. If she doesn't run, that value greatly decreases

See Post 113:

"To paraphrase Lincoln: Better to remain a non-candidate and be thought of by many detractors as unelectable than to run, be absolutely slaughtered, and remove all doubt."

[nopardons]

Exactly!

Palin was a VEEP candidate, took rabid abuse for every side ( and still is getting it; even here ), has an interesting CV; however, should she stay out of the fray, she is a NOTHING, a NOBODY, who is just yesterday's news.