[A CA Guy]

I would like her to run, but how has she appeared to you that she is running?
To me she looks like someone happy to be being paid millions while still playing in politics. If she can pull this off I doubt she’d want to run.
Of course, if she doesn’t run she may become a has been and not continue all the pay days either.
Catch 22 here.

I think she would be a fantastic candidate though.

[Jim Scott]

I would like her to run, but how has she appeared to you that she is running?

I suspect that some Palin supporters are doing some wishful thinking and because Palin has never ruled out running, they assume she will. I'm a Palin supporter but don't pretend to 'know' what she will decide.

To me she looks like someone happy to be being paid millions while still playing in politics. If she can pull this off I doubt she’d want to run.

Of course, if she doesn’t run she may become a has been and not continue all the pay days either. Catch 22 here.

Those comments are insulting to Sarah Palin because they infer that she is just jerking her supporters around and is only in politics to make money. That reflects what Democrats say about Palin. I don't buy it. Sarah Palin has integrity and isn't playing a game. She is risking a lot if she runs, including her own safety and that of her family. Hence, she is considering a run very carefully and not based on sheer ambition or a lust for political power, much less, to increase her income. Your inference that it's all a cynical, money-making game to Sarah Palin is odd for someone who then posts this:

I think she would be a fantastic candidate though.

[JaguarXKE]

I would like her to run, but how has she appeared to you that she is running?

Because she hasn't said she isn't and if she wasn't she would have said so my now. Secondly, I believe she has studied Sun Tzu. When she enters the race, (and I'm convinced she will) it will be a tsunami, as Rush put it recently.

[misharu]

*sigh*

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I would like her to run, but how has she appeared to you that she is running?

If she wasn't running she would have said so.

Unless you believe she's an idiot who thinks that stringing her supporters along only to betray them won't end her political aspirations.

But the only people who think she's an idiot are the idiots who think a Tina Fey quote is the same thing as a Sarah Palin quote.

Are you one of those.

[Polybius]

To me she looks like someone happy to be being paid millions while still playing in politics. If she can pull this off I doubt she’d want to run. Of course, if she doesn’t run she may become a has been and not continue all the pay days either. Catch 22 here.

Not really. Think of it as a poker game.

After resigning the Governorship, Palin made $12 million in Reality TV, speaking fees and book sales by April, 2010.

April 15, 2010: Sarah Palin income 12 million dollars since leaving office

After taxes, etc., let's say that she now (October 2011) has $20 million in poker chips on the table.

A serious Presidential run costs SERIOUS money for campaign ads etc. Hillary put in $11 million of her own money into her own campaign and, in spite of all the fund-raising prowess of the Clinton Political machine, still ended up $9 million in DEBT.

So, Hillary LOST $20 million in poker chips to BE in the Presidential hand.

You are the poker player. What do you do? It costs $20 million in chips to play the hand. But, the pay-off is a $400,000 per year job. (You can earn that in four speeches.)

You weigh the possibilities:

A.) You win and trade $20 million in chips for a $400,000 per year "Title" that will "shackle" you from "being a maverick and being rogue". (Her words. Not mine.)

B.) You play the serious hand, it cost you $20 million in chips, you lose and you end up like Huckabee (LOSER) on FOX who earns half of what you do by doing a lot more work at FOX than you do. Losing candidates lose their mystique and the pay drops accordingly.

C.) You play the "phony" hand, like Newt is playing now. (No staff. No ads. No expenses) You keep the $20 million in chips but you certainly lose in the primaries and you end up like Huckabee (LOSER) on FOX who earns half of what you do by doing a lot more work at FOX than you do. Losing candidates lose their mystique.

D.)You tease and tease and tease until the last minute about MAYBE playing the hand, as long as you can and then say ..... (Insert noble excuse here. How about, "A title would shackle me from being a maverick and a rogue and saying what needs to be said.") You keep the $20 million in chips and you keep your mystique because your loyal followers KNOW that if you HAD played the hand you WOULD HAVE won.

Those are your four possibilities in the poker game, A CA Guy. What's your call.

If money is the object, it is a no-brainer. You choose Option D.

E. Pluribus Unum and Sun Tzu are correct:

What E. Pluribus Unum does not realize, however, is the actual nature of the "war", the actual objectives of the "war" and who is actually being deceived.