Calm down, and please don’t quote half a sentence of mine in a way that completely reverses the meaning.
I was addressing the earlier claim that Palin should have been in the race months ago by pointing out that she still has higher name recognition than anyone else running, and that is the prime objective of early candidates.
My full sentence was:
“I was of course addressing the idea that Palin needed to be in the race months ago, when one of the prime goals of candidates was to increase name recognition.”