I disagree. Had Sarah Palin announced that she was running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in November, 2010, she would be campaigning for two straight years. The cost, both financial and physical, would be unbearable. By now, she would be considered 'old news' and the critics that now castigate Palin for supposedly 'waiting too long' (in their opinion, not hers) would be complaining that she 'started way too soon'. I'm convinced that most of those critics would never vote for Sarah Palin no matter when she declared her candidacy.
Instead she has been wandering all over the place. Will she run, or wont she? No wonder her polls go down.
She has hardly been 'wandering'. Sarah Palin has been keeping a high profile (and leading the media around by the nose) so if and when she announces, it will receive maximum coverage. The polls are hardly an accurate reflection of Palin's popularity as will be obvious if and when she announces her candidacy. If Sarah Palin decides not to run (doubtful at this point) the date she announces that decision will be mostly irrelevant to an election 14 months away.
She has many virtues, but has not shown an ability to concentrate on a few issues, or on a single job, or on a ten-month constant campaign assault on O’Bummer. A sustained, steadfast campaign this year would have proven that she could be a steadfast president.
Dropping out of the governorship midway through did not
improve her fickle image, and wandering from speech to speech and interview to interview has not helped either.