Those "many" republicans who say that to you are friggin' idiots.
There is a segment of the GOP (even on this site) who are fed-up with Palin because they believe she let them down last time around.
Never mind, she bowed out at the last moment and never actually ran. She got enough hopes high, she sort of decimated some people.
Not to worry. Many of those people will come back, but not until she is really running, this time.
So it’s not that she won’t get support. It is simply that she will need to actually declare herself a candidate, to get many people.
(just my opinion)
You gotta remember, most republican voters are NOT political junkies like me. They do not log on to FR in droves to get their info. They get their info from MSM mostly. Like it or not, that is the reality. There are 50 or 60 million voters who have voted republican. How many log on to FR?
When I ask anyone who disparages Sarah Palin, “what exactly makes you think she is an airhead”, they never have a good answer.