Norm, she has to give the people something concrete to hold on to. We, here, are a kind of small band of diehards. But there are those who must have something in the hand sooner rather than later. The press doesn’t really affect US much, because we can talk to each other and pick it apart, but that isn’t the real world of people who do pay attention and the media is still powerful. You can’t underestimate them. Do so at your peril. Even the Conservative media has jumped into this with both feet. Mark Levin probably put the icing on the cake.
Devastate is not an exaggeration. It will have that effect on alot of people. Emotions are not to be taken lightly, and they are running at fever pitch right now.
No, they are nowhere near a fever pitch in the big picture. Remember that we live in a bubble here online. It is an echo chamber that is self perpetuating.
In all honesty, if Palin comes out on the 3rd and just ‘hints’ at a run without concrete proof that she will, do you seriously believe that when she announces (hypothetically) 2 weeks later that there are ‘supporters’ who will say “Nope, I’m not with her anymore because I wanted her to announce on my timetable and she did not.?
IMO, that’s a fairweather friend, not a supporter.
I put “Cult of Palin” in some of my posts as a smack to the PDSers so believe me when I tell you I am 110% in SPs camp. I have been a supporter of hers since 2007 and that ain’t changing regardless of when she decides to run. I believe in her ideas and the direction she has already stated for getting America on track. We have like 15 MONTHS worth of campaign ahead of us. 15 MONTHS! a couple weeks in that timeframe is nothing. if someone has so little faith in her that they are going to bail over a matter of an announcement date after all the indicators she has given that she will indeed run, I really do not know what to say.