Well , if she passes she is going to find out how much having a title to make change is needed because a republican will beat Obama and when they take office noone is going to care about what Sarah Palin thinks anymore. The only reason she has power now and ability to affect change is because she is the defacto opposition leader..for now. She could have said all along that she will not be a candidate instead of stringing people along. It doesn’t take this long to make up your mind. I gave her the benefit of the doubt becaue I thought she was dragging it out as part of strategy.
That still might be the case...if she intends the media and her opponets to think sh'es not running..that would disarm them to some degree from anticipating she'll jump in....thus when she announces they are caught off guard.