Sarah said she wasn't running. That seems pretty clear to me. So again, what makes you think she'd accept if "drafted" by a brokered convention?
To be truly Shermanesque, a statement has to close off all possibilities. All Palin did was say that she was not conducting a campaign. She said nothing about not accepting a draft, let alone not serving if elected.The reality is that conducting a campaign for the nomination alone is a daunting prospect. Made more so by "Campaign Finance Reform" laws which if in effect in 1980 would have prevented Reagan from running.
I adopted my tagline, Draft Palin, on the basis that according to unconstitutional (but upheld by Sandra Day O'Connor) Campaign Finance "Reform" laws, people independent of Gov. Palin could forward her name without triggering burdensome requirements on her. Very few Freepers seemed to be on board, tho - and we see what the field got reduced to without her participation. I think the Freepers who wouldn't prefer Palin to any of the current candidates are pretty thin on the ground.The reality is that of the last four standing, only Romney is a governor - and most FReepers recognize that Gov. Romney has no conservative track record. And the other reality is that no sitting president has ever been defeated for reelection by anyone who wasn't a former governor (and Harding was the only senator to ever defeat a governor in a WH bid).We are in a pretty bad pickle.