Don't know why you'd say that, when every possible sign points to her running - and soon.
First of all, she didn't quash the rumors and expectations of her making a 2012 run, when they really stepped up a full year ago. If you understand Sarah Palin at all, you know that she would not leave most of the country hanging on the edge of their seat until this late date, just to announce that she's NOT running.
She loves and respects the American people far too much to do such a thing. She also respects our political process too much to allow any indecision on her part to unduly affect the nominating contest. There is far too much at stake in this election, and she (of all people) well knows this.
If Sarah were to announce that she's not running, it would be a let-down of catastrophic proportions for millions upon millions of Americans, who are praying each and every day that she is going to lead the charge back to a restored America. You think she doesn't know that?
Do you think she might also understand that if she dashes the sincerest hopes of that many people, that she'll never be trusted again?
Don't you think that she would have talked Stephen Bannon out of making The Undefeated, if she had any intention to stay out of the race?
Come on, now. This isn't that hard to deduce. She's running.
MB is the cultist; an anti-Palin one, but a cultist nonetheless. He has based everything he says/posts on his own biases and not on anything factual. When shown "facts", he poo poos them, ridicules the poster, and launches into yet another spew of lefty/RINO tripe.
I don't think she would run, for the same reason, in many ways, that she would make a great President.
I think the is way too smart to run a race she cannot win. Remember, we conservatives do not elect Preisdents. Neither do the hard libs. The undecideds, the middle 16 to 19% of the voters who are not that interested in politics.
They would not vote for Palin because she has been so vilified in the media. Very wrongly, her name is a bad joke nationally. She is the Katherine Harris of 2012. In the FL Senate race in 2006, Harris was the world's worst candidate, but she could have been perfect and not elected because she had been so vilified.
This is Palin’s present position: She is making about $12 million a year in speeches, appearances, TV work, books, etc. If she runs, that stops. She is at home when she wants to be. She is in the limelight when she wants to be, out of it when she wants to be.
If she were to run and lose, even just lose the nomination, her earning power and political power would be greatly diminished. 2008 was “McCain's loss.” 2012 would be hers.
She has no personal NEED to be president. If she can help elect someone who will follow her policies, that is enough.
She hated the 2008 campaign. I had dinner with her last year, and although she would make no commitment to 2012, she hid no feelings about the elective process and the idiocy and pain a person has to go through to run.
Finally, right now, her endorsement is the most valuable thing (other than a big Iowa win) that any R candidate could ever want.
And remember the most important rule in politics, it's better to be the kingmaker than the king.
Right now, she is the relatively quiet 2012 kingmaker. If she chooses right, she is kingmaker in 16 and 20 as well. She is way too smart to give that up.
I wish she was president. I think she is too smart to run.
I'll answer your question, while avoiding the troll fools.
I don't think she would run, for the same reason, in many ways, that she would make a great President.
I think she is way too smart to run a race she cannot win. Remember, we conservatives do not elect Preisdents. Neither do the hard libs. The undecideds, the middle 16 to 19% of the voters who are not that interested in politics, they decide elections. Remember, in 1980, Reagan has less than 52% of the vote.
The middleground would not vote for Palin because she has been so vilified in the media. Very wrongly, her name is a bad joke nationally. She is the Katherine Harris of 2012. In the FL Senate race in 2006, Harris was the world's worst candidate, but she could have been perfect and not elected because she had been so vilified.
This is Palin’s present position: She is making about $12 million a year in speeches, appearances, TV work, books, etc. If she runs, that stops. She is at home when she wants to be. She is in the limelight when she wants to be, out of it when she wants to be.
If she were to run and lose, even just lose the nomination, her earning power and political power would be greatly diminished. 2008 was “McCain's loss.” 2012 would be hers.
She has no personal NEED to be president. If she can help elect someone who will follow her policies, that is enough.
She hated the 2008 campaign. I had dinner with her last year, and although she would make no commitment to 2012, she hid no feelings about the elective process and the idiocy and pain a person has to go through to run.
Finally, right now, her endorsement is the most valuable thing (other than a big Iowa win) that any R candidate could ever want.
And remember the most important rule in politics, it's better to be the kingmaker than the king.
Right now, she is the relatively quiet 2012 kingmaker. If she chooses right, she is kingmaker in 16 and 20 as well. She is way too smart to give that up.
I wish she was president. I think she is too smart to run.
And secondly, read it and weep..... in person, she is an incredibly beautiful woman.
She looks good in photos, but the camera does not even begin to do her justice. Some models are “ok” in person, but beautiful on camera. She is great on camera, but exceptionally stunning in person.
When she sat down at the dinner table, most of the men had met her before, but there was a collective quiet gasp from the other man and all the (jealous) women who had no idea how beautiful she is.
Mrs. MindBender says she is probably a size 0, and in better shape than 99.9% of the other women in the world.