Same here. Until McCain named Palin as his running mate, I was completely down in the dumps about our prospects. I just could not believe, that of all the candidates at the start of the race, we wound up with the least likely contender as our standard bearer.
I never liked McCain, and even refused to display his bumper sticker. On the other hand, I still have Palin buttons and so-forth from 2008.
When she chose not to run in 2012, my heart was mortally wounded, as I felt (and still feel) that she is in the upper tenth of the upper tenth of our very best. We desperately needed her to seize that moment, but in the end, she walked away from her destiny.
And now we come to another election, and this time the situation is even more dire. The Dems are racing against time to flood the country with enough foreigners, that it will permanently tip the balance of electoral votes in their favor.
If that happens, we can truly kiss our America good bye. Under such a warlike circumstance, I choose to support the one and only candidate who is clearly capable of defeating the combined forces of the Clinton/Bush/Media/GOP-e/Dem cabal, and that is Donald Trump.
Imperfect as he may be on the outside, he's got all the right stuff on the inside. He can't be bought, he can't be cowed, he can't be scared off, he can't be fooled, he can't be blackmailed, and he is bound and determined to restore this country to greatness.
Frankly, I believe she did the calculation and determined she came up short.
I can't blame her for that.
I think Cruz knows he has as much chance as Pataki, but he's playing position. We'll know if he jumps on the Trash Trump Bandwagon.