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Maybe there was another reason, too. Palin endorsed Gov. Perry in his run for governorship, and he'd sworn up and down that he was going to remain in the governorship, by golly, follow through. He won, then crawfished and ran in the presidential primaries anyway.

I think that might have been part of it. Windy probably remembers it better than I do.

Palin endorsed Gov. Perry in his run for governorship, and he'd sworn up and down that he was going to remain in the governorship, by golly, follow through. He won, then crawfished and ran in the presidential primaries anyway.

I think that might have been part of it.

That was a very big part of why Sarah didn't run in 2012. When Perry threw his hat in the ring, you could almost hear Sarah gasp all the way from Alaska. It was a stunning betrayal on Perry's part, and I'm sure it sucked a tremendous amount of wind out of her sails. The field was already crowded, and with Perry getting into it, the atmosphere was practically circus-like.

There was no way she was going to run after that.

It's now clear that Sarah needed to announce her intentions early in the process to keep it from getting so far out of hand like it did. By holding out as long as she did, she left the gate open for way too many hopefuls to jam the stage. I believe there was a point in time in which the nomination was hers for the taking - had she only seized the moment. Whatever caused her to hesitate, allowed that moment to slip away.