[Paleo Conservative]

So is Palin trying to be the Fred Thompson of 2012? She’s already too late.

[vicar7]

Sarah Palin is No Fred Thompson she is a celebrity or a star and he is not. However when Sarah steps in she will lay down the “Law & Order.

[teg_76]

Yeah I would say Thompson and Palin are very similar campaigners. They have about equal energy levels on the stump.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

She’s already too late.

Nonsense. The election is in November 2012 and NOT November 2011, fourteen months away.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Sounds like Rep. Michele Bachmann is/was the “Fred Thompson” of the 2012 election. How is former Governor Palin “too late” when then former Governor Ronald Reagan didn’t declare his candidacy until November 13, 1979 for the 1980 election that he won? He beat a lousy incumbent president with both economic and foreign troubles. Deja vu all over again?

[Caipirabob]

So is Palin trying to be the Fred Thompson of 2012? She’s already too late.

What cracks me up is how Anne Coulter is always saying that Palin has to hurry and get in but Christie of NJ would make a "dynamic late entry" and shake up the race.

Is Christie GOProud or something? How does this make sense for Coulter?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So is Palin trying to be the Fred Thompson of 2012? She’s already too late.

If you're so smart, why don't you run for President?

If Palin had run a conventional campaign and declared two years before the election, the GOP ruling class would have taken her out by now, because to them DC is an exclusive country club that doesn't cotton to outsiders.

The last thing they want is somebody coming in and rocking them right out of their cushy little boats.

In order to win the nomination, she has to outwit and outmaneuver them.

If she can succeed at that, imagine how many knots she'll tie Ubama into.

And about that "she quit the governorship" thing: Democrats routinely use the legal system to destroy their opponents.

Alaska Democrat operatives filed over 200 ethics complaints against her, not one of which was upheld.

It actually cost her and her family over $500,000 in legal bills to fight the frivolous charges, and had she stayed on it would have cost the state of Alaska millions, plus they would have had a governor embroiled in personal legal battles rather than taking care of the state's business.

Had she not resigned, right now you'd probably be saying: "If she'd managed to get through her term as governor without declaring bankruptcy and being in court half the time and costing her state millions of dollars I'd support her, but she has proven that she can't run a state, much less the entire country."

Resigning was the right thing to do for her state, the right thing to do for her family, and the right thing to do for her country.

And as for the "she only resigned to make money" argument, she could have stayed in office and gotten paid millions for her book, just like Ubama did with the two autobiographies he allegedly wrote.

One more thing: Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

So is Palin trying to be the Fred Thompson of 2012? She’s already too late.

Blah blah blah.

I think Governor Palin may originally have been looking at the Indianola Iowa speech as the time and place. However once the arch-RINO Rove tried to hitch his wagon to that date, and perhaps more importantly to avoid competing with the national focus leading up to today's 9-11 memorials, she decided to hold off.

Starting tomorrow 6:00 am forward, Governor Palin could announce any moment, up until the end of this month - which she seems to have mentioned publicly as the date by which we'll know.