Let me get this completely straight here so we can put what you are claiming into perspective. Palin had done none of the serious things necessary to prepare for a presidential campaign. Fox News didn't think she was running for President and didn't suspend her. Palin ultimately declines to run for President. Palin offers an explanation which has nothing whatsoever to do with being "scared" of some mysterious threat. Palin then goes on to continue her job as commentator/analyst (earning her lots of money) which she uses as a platform to attack Obama and the Democrats regularly on the most popular cable news channel. And you are contending she is, well, lying about her reasons for not running. That her decision was because she was "scared" like some Dryads in a CS Lewis book. And when I try to point out that there is utterly, absolutely no evidence to support your theory and offer a more reasonable alternative for why Palin might have been hesitant to announce she wasn't running - you call me a troll. Which, by the way, is the very type of behavior and name calling that many members of FR were complaining about on this very thread.
You offered a conspiracy theory backed only by your wife's assertion that Palin looked like a "scared" Dryad from some novel. I told you that was silly and no evidence exists to support it. And you attack me? Your wife compares some expression Sarah had to a Dryad from a fantasy book, and this you expect me to take seriously absent ANY other evidence? Do you realize how utterly ridiculous you sound?
I'm going to make this as plain as I can. Sarah Palin did not decline to run for President because she was threatened and scared. She's a big girl and a lot tougher than that. You give her very little credit here. If someone really threatened her, Palin is more likely to do just the opposite of what they were demanding. It is far more likely that you just can't accept that Palin didn't run for President when you expected her to do so, and for that to make sense in your world requires you accept or invent some silly excuse about her being "scared" of some unknown threat. You know who is actually scared? You. You are scared to accept you were wrong about Palin's intentions, and you just can't admit it to yourself or anyone else.
Nice try. You didn't read my first piece (Sarah Palin in "The Undecided," or, Only Her Halibut Knows for Sure) (which I explicitly posted TO YOU on this thread) which pre-dated her withdrawal from the race, that her goal was to further the goals of the Tea Party, and at that point her decision to run would be based on what she adjudged best for the Tea Party.
My feelings about this were confirmed by the OTHER piece I posted to you on this thread, (Sarah Ringbearer, or, A Gift From Frodo) in which I said that the best thing to do on her withdrawing from the race, was not to bemoan the fact, but to take up the mantle ourselves as the grass roots.
And you are contending she is, well, lying about her reasons for not running.
She wasn't lying: she implied it was for the sake of her family, and their opinion.
As far as the evidence: I'll trust my wife's judgement over some anonymous Perry operative/troll any day. My wife noted the abrupt change in Palin's tone and body English: her confidence, ebullience, all...gone. Just like that.
Women know how to read other women.
Do you realize how utterly ridiculous you sound?
I don't sound ridiculous: What IS ridiculous is your accusations against me, which have the air of desperation: the more so as they are soundly refuted by articles I posted publicly on FR, a few days before her announcement, and another one I emailed to another FReeper to post for me (I was at work) the night of her announcement.
As far as calling you a troll: yep, and proudly so.
Anyone can search back to your posting history to within a week or so of Palin's announcement where you called Palin's supporters all kinds of vile things. Or your posts where you personally mocked Palin for leaving the governorship. It looked a LOT like a victory dance -- presumably, from your subsequent support of Perry, in the vain hope that he would then sweep into the White House.
And now you show up on this thread to try to start personal attacks and flame wars once again.
(Compare that to my post #1645 this thread, which attempts to address the root cause of the problems on FR, rather than settle personal scores.)
Cheers!