This is just my opinion.
I think she was gearing up for a run in 2012 - she was making all the moves and then suddenly something changed and I could see it on her face in interviews. She went from energetic and optimistic to resignation, sort of depressed. I suspected that someone or a group said something to her to convince her not to run. It would have to be a threat of pretty severe consequence because for the most part she seems fairly fearless.
But think about it - her entire family was completely slandered - even the youngest child - her parents were audited - they moved someone in next door to spy on her, major news media asked their readers to help them try to find a hint of scandal in her governor emails...and on and on. I don’t know of anyone who has gone through such an uncalled for public lynching. if it had been me I’d have disappeared into Alaska never to be heard from again in the lower 48.
I hate them for what they did to her and I think the GOPe was almost as bad as the rats.
Well that's much more romantic than reality.
Reality is that she told FNC execs that she was not running in Spring 2011 when Newt and Santurum were suspended when they had to tell FNC that they were running.
FNC could not legally keep her on as a political commentator if she was running.
But it was good money for FNC as well as the MSM channels to keep those fictional running segments on her :”If she running? What if she does?” till October when she finally fessed up
And Sarah made out like a bandit until she felt forced to admit she wasn't really running.
The bus tours and teases on Greta all played it up.
Yep, the foolish rats ran off the cliff.
I alone here was warning that she would not run. But many just live to be wrong. And being wrong seems to be a rite of passage with many.