Alas......poor Sarah. She dithers and dithers and then jumps the shark
Her day may be yet to come but it will be in 8 more years.
If Obama is re-elected in the current election cycle, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she ran in 2016. Personally, I doubt Biden will run for President at that time, so the field will be wide open, just like 2008.
“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.
I believe a well timed effort by the right candidate could work, if the primaries are cloudy. So, I agree with her that it’s not too late.
But the yo-yo-tease-final-decision by Palin has worn itself out with me. I don’t think she’d do much good and likely make things worse.