To run for POTUS requires committment, fire in the belly. Romney wants the job. Cain wants the job. Bachmann and Santorum want the job.Their words and actions demonstrate that every day. With Palin one of two things are true. She does not have the committment. OR. She is playing rope a dope. If it’s the latter, then she is doing so with her supporters as well as her adversaries. She would doing this to other Republicans. Obama will run against whomever the GOP names. The only targets of her rope a dope are other Republicans and their supporters. To do this makes it all about Palin. I think she’s better than that, and that’s why I say these signs point to her not running.
I disagree with you, please take the time to read my analysis.
I think she is playing it exactly as she should. Look what happens when she is in? She is the instant front runner, and she then gets hit by both the republicans and democrats. By standing by we have already seen newt, gone, perry faultering, Romney not surging, Bauccman down. And what has that cost her financially or popularity wise???? Nothing, not a dime.
It becomes all about her when she does run. There was a great book that came out about baseball a few years back called moneyball. It told how the scouts of the A’s started looking at statistics through a different lens then they had before. The asked, what is the outcome of the game? To have more players cross home plate than the other team. The scouts had focused on players with the highest Hit ratio. But they were not looking at ALL the stats. What they figured out was, the players that had statistically better discernment to not swing at the full count and take a walk. Statistically these players were just as valuable to crossing the plate in the game as guys that got hits to get on base. So the A’s began picking these guys up for cheap, (they got paid less since the value was on hits not walks). They began to statistically score more RBI’s because more guys got on base.
ALL that is to say is this. Let’s look at how Palin as played the game with the resources and opportunities available to her. Since she left the VP campaign,She signed a huge multimillion dollar book deal. Book tours. Fox news Channel news commentator deal. A series of documentaries on Alaska. (Again multimillion) .... She has created a powerful grass roots army that lie in wait for her next orders. She has more political capital than any other person in politics in the last 25 years. NOW here is the question for you....
1. Have you seen ANY VP (winning, Let alone Losing) candidate still a daily household name 3 years after the election?
2. When you think about the strengths of the political game, and you read the moves above, has she played out all of her opportunities to the hilt? Or squandered them?
3. Does she have the political, and financial backing to wait out to the last minute to make her move?
Adding all of those factors up. Is this a person that has the leg strength to rope-a-dope her opponents? The answer as I see it is.... YES.