I wish she had picked a strategy that was less psychologically demanding of her supporters. If it's not affecting you, it certainly is affecting others. I should have kept a running count of all of the folks who swore that they knew for a fact that September 3rd was the Big Day.
The problem is that it was her supporters that wound themselves up on the S3 date. Sure it was possible, but not likely. Palin never strung anyone along. That’s her supporters getting impatient, unsatisfied to wait for her to finish the stated timeframe and hoping she announces on X date instead.
Believe it or not I understand people thinking she’s not going to run and I understand that they see us as deluding ourselves. But no one stops to think that perhaps we did our homework and we believe what we do based on our evaluation of facts in evidence. Even so, excitement gets the better of us all at times. We are afterall, human.
I maintain that most people just forget what supporting a candidate looks like. If we are wrong, we (at least I) won’t take the chicken route. I’ll publicly admnt it.