[Carling]

Not knowingly allowing it, but her silence and her evasiveness only serves to divide the conservative base at this point.

Thank you for disagreeing with me in a courteous manner, though, and I’m certainly not anti-Palin, and will support either her or Bachmann if she does enter the race. With that, I’m out of this thread. There are more pressing topics to be discussed on FR!

[Lakeshark]

She's been neither silent nor evasive. She said quite clearly she did not think Michelle Bachmann had any executive experience, which.....happens to be true. That's not a smear, it's her record and her achilles heel IMHO.

She's also been very candid about her deadline of the end of September to say whether or not she is running.

How that divides I have no idea. If she runs, that will divide her from those who support other candidates, but that's true of any candidate, I'm not sure how you construe that as negative. She'll have to make her case just like all of them if she runs. Then the GOP base will vote on what they see, and only one of them will get the nomination............................Duh, *laughs at self*)