[nathanbedford]

[I see my hands]

Sarah Palin is now Fred Thompson, only less influential.

[Free Vulcan]

I know people are real disappointed that SP didn’t run. I am too. She was my #1 from day one all the way to today.

I do not worry for her. She has her family. She is smart and able She has the ability to continue to be Kingmaker and possibly far more of an influence than she could ever be as Prez.

It’s time to move on. The fight continues I don’t believe this country does or should fall on the choices of one person. This is a representative Republic and WE are in charge, if we choose to be.

Don’t like Democrats? Vote Republican. Don’t like RINO’s? Get Tea Party candidates elected in your primaries and have a Tea Party majority. Don’t think we can win President? Work to get a veto proof majority. Work to get majorities in your states. Work, work, work, work, work.

It is OUR job to keep the Republic. It takes hard work. Even if Sarah Palin isn’t running. If you don’t work you get what you get. Even the guys bunkering for CWII are working for something.

There are no options. There is no country to run to. We fight for this one or we go down to Tyranny.

Fight to the Death.

Fight to the Last Man.

We have no other choice.

[reasonisfaith]

Yes—we should take Sarah’s advice and let the principles lead our nation.

She has opposed Obama more than anyone else, and now all conservative candidates look to her ideas as a model for their platforms.

It’s the principles that matter, not the personalities.

[Patrick1]

Hate to say I told you so...but.

[One Name]

I had my money on SP; she had what it takes- she’s been fighting since the 2008 election while all the men were hunkering for cover.

Here we are now- and the fight is not over yet, by a long shot!

Thank God for the Patriots who have carried the flags of freedom before us.

North and South- Patriots together!

[Politics4US]

She should have announced earlier.

[Kirkwood]

I predict she’ll be invited to speak at the GOP convention and it will be like Reagan speaking in 1976, only more so. Everyone in the room will realize that Palin would be the stronger candidate.

[FromTheSidelines]

The Republican Party must become more like Sarah Palin if it is to survive. If the party does not strive after virtue it will fall victim to factions, most likely the tea party.

Like Sarah, the GOP supported John McCain for President in 2008, and for the Senate in 2010. Is that the model we're to emulate?

[Randy Larsen]

Sarah Palin will no longer have any effect in politics!

Their is now NO REASON to even give her a platform to speak from.

She knifed all of us who supported her square in the back.

I will no longer listen to her when she speaks, and when the dvd I ordered from Amazon shows up, I’ll burn it.

So much for reloading!!!

[grey_whiskers]

I'd be more comfortable if I knew for sure which way you meant the backhanded allusion to Goldwater: she was calumnied out, like him? Or she's felt to be dangerous and unstable, like liberals slandered Goldwater as being?