Why so long? Well I just got done posting here that at this point in the election cycle, neither Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan or Richard Nixon (1968) has announced. And all three did get elected (and then re-elected).
My guess on the wait would probably be that Palin already has the name recognition, has a couple books out, so immediately upon entry, she'd be an instant contender so why the rush? Also, she might be waiting for the current field to settle out a little and maybe she was hoping more would have dropped out of the race by now besides just Pawlenty.
This was a good article thanks for posting.
Another theory I saw on another thread concerned the "book" that McSlimeus is releasing...she wanted it to come out when she was a non-candidate, get it discredited and out of the way. IF it had come out when she was a candidate it would have been the first "subject" of her campaign and would have been taken much more seriously by the press. Strategery.
“Thoughtful comments on your part but I disagree that there is total silence from Palin. She gave two speeches over Labor Day weekend in both Iowa and New Hampshire and those were political speeches that you would only expect a candidate to give.”
Which made it all the more odd that she didn’t declare, didn’t give any indication of her preparation for same, and just left it hanging. It was the perfect time, place and venue to declare -and she didn’t. Sometimes, silence tells you all you need to know, and you got pick up on the obvious. She spoke as a Tea Party event keynoter, not a candidate.
“She posts articles on a regular basis on subjects that you would expect a candidate to expound on. “
Rush Limbaugh expounds on these every day too, but he’ll never be a candidate. As does Huckabee, Glenn Beck, etc. Palin’s actions are the actions of a celebrity-pundit-activist-public-speaker. She’s not done the candidate stuff, like line up fundraising support and consultants, etc. Only her fans are blind to these tipoffs to her non-candidacy. (they are also tipoffs that if she did run, it wouldnt go smoothly.)
Your speculative thousands of words are not necessary. She is not a candidate for President in 2012, and if she were, she’d have let us in on her thinking by now.