[Sudetenland]

No desperation here, it's all in the cult of Sarah camp--mind you that's only a small number of Sarah fans, but they are the folks who are so desperate that they will tear down any other candidate with their lies.

As for the rest, I've already said she can't win. She is carrying too much damage from her Veep run. Read the polling data--not just one poll, but every poll that has been taken. She can't win, but she can almost certainly guarantee that Romney will.

That is the only concern that I have. Perry can and will beat Romney and we will have the first conservative President since Reagan, but if Palin runs and draws a significant following, the best she can do is to split the conservative/base vote and give Romney the ticket.

Sarah should have announced Saturday if she was going to run. She has been playing it just too cute if she still intends to run--which I doubt. She has a better understanding of her electability--or unelectability--than her cult followers do. She knows she is still capable of being influential within the party, but she also knows the limits of her popularity and influence.

If she doesn't and she's playing a Fred Thompson, then she's not nearly as smart as I thought and she has forgotten what happened with Fred.

[Windflier]

Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, and obviously mine are far different than yours about Palin’s electability and what her intentions are, regarding the race.

I see her as the only Republican out there who truly represents me, and what I want for the future of this country. In my estimation, she’s in a league above and beyond the rest. Of this, I have total certainty.

As for electability, none of the others have the groundswell of grass roots support that Palin has. None. If the media had damaged her as badly as you think they have, that would not be the case. She would not be headlining events, and her endorsement would not have been sought and coveted by so many other politicians over the last couple of years.

Don’t forget — even Rick Perry sought (and received) her endorsement in his last gubernatorial bid.

Not only did the media execute the most vicious, and sustained attack against a sitting politician that has ever been seen in modern history, they then turned around and tried to convince the public that they successfully destroyed her, when nothing could be further from the truth. She remains as popular, as influential, and as powerful, as ever before. Perhaps even more-so.

I know you don’t want Palin to run. That’s clear from your repeated postings to that effect. Thing is - she’s going to run whether you want her to, or not. Others may, as well. I’m all for letting everyone who wants to, stand for office, and see who the voters trust the most to take the fight to Obama.