I believe that she is planning to run. The party elites pushing Romney-Perry are the antithesis of Palinism. The conservative candidates Bachmann and Cain have made fatal errors and have failed to catch on.
However, the biggest reason to think that she is running is that her credibility would be finished with conservatives if she waited this long to back out. Sarah Palin must know this.
I don’t ‘get’ why Sarah Palin would be “finished with conservatives” if she announces she is NOT running. Several of the decidedly pro-Palin folks on this board have said that, and I just don’t ‘get’ it.
She’s 47 years old and still has three kids living at home and dependent on her as a mom. The youngest, now 3 years old has very special needs. Why can’t she wait 4 or 8 years, or 12 for that matter? If she sees a viable GOP candidate, for her own reasons she may well decide not to run. I don’t know why anyone would think less of her for coming to that decision.