“Alas......poor Sarah. She dithers and dithers and then jumps the shark”
It’s hard to really know people’s motivation, but consider the following:
If someone wasn’t driven to seek the job of president because it’s such a cool gig (see Romney) but rather would be willing to do it only if duty called because there was no other viable conservative candidate to take on Obama, we would see them behave very much like Sarah.
The dithering that we saw, I believe was hoping that good candidates would arise. Sarah said so on several occasions but cynical naysayers instead assigned calculating motives to everything she did and said. But virtue exists and some people live by it. That is why the left hates her.
Perry and Cain seemed to be riding high when she announced her decision to not run, they would have served the country well. Now that they’re out of the picture, she is rethinking that decision, not because she wants the job, but
FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY
Why is the concept of virtue so foreign even to many in the conservative electorate? That Sarah has it and lives it is apparent to me and I would hope, enough other people to matter.
To attribute what she does and says to cynicism and spin I feel is missing all the evidence of virtue in her.
If her intention was for the good of the country, she would have run or would endorse someone to help unify. Getting in the race will only help fracture it, likely a very nice gift to Romney.
this is pretty much how I see things as well. she thought the nomination process would produce a good candidate and that the country would be in good hands. she may realize now that that’s not the case and she needs to fix it.
You gotta be kidding me. NOBODY runs for President because "duty calls." People run for President because they have unbelievably massive egos and want the job.
You would be better served if you based your assessment of palin on what she actually chooses to put her energies into rather than what you want to believe.