Election cycles were different then than now.
“Election cycles are different than they are now”
things have changed, but I think Reagan was the last one to announce in 1979. It looks like Palin thinks that strategy is a good one.
My position as a Palin supporter is that this is her call. I would love to hear her take on Zero everyday but she has a plan. She took down the biggest name in AK politics, the incumbent R gov, then beat a Dem ex-gov. For those against Palin, they can take comfort in the fact it is getting later; those on the fence can switch back and forth, and then us diehards will just wait. Worst comes to worst and she declines, most of us will switch to Rick La Raza Perry, but in the end ABO.
It sounds to me like Palin has some inside information that plays into her timing. A smoking gun somewhere, scandals, other entrants. Palin’s name is so well known that she can push this strategy to the limit.