What if Palin is not running, only running interference?
What if she's keeping the media on her "not a campaign because I haven't announced" campaign, building support in a general sense for conservative values and, in the end she'll publicly endorse one or both of these two?
Personally, I'm firmly in the camp that loves Sarah Palin and all she stands for but... I believe she's far more valuable as a king maker rather than a candidate.
I can see this playing out differently than has been described here and I hope the players involved are truly that strategic.
“What if Palin is not running, only running interference?”
Having watched Palin closely for the last three years, I do not believe she has it in her character to lead her supporters to believe she will run, only to pull the rug out from under them. There is no one who can take her place and she knows this. Moreover, if she lets us down, she lets her country and the military she loves, down. I do not believe it is in her DNA to do this.
Our next nominee and president shouldn't need to have somebody run "interference" for them.