Just WHOM is she/has she been teasing, other than the LSM? As one of Sarah's most ardent supporters, I take her at her word that she is continuing to pray for guidance from God, and to be certain that her family has the same "fire in the belly" that she has.
Will I be disappointed if she opts not to run? YOU BETCHA!
But do I feel she owes anyone an apology? No way.
I believe ConservativeDude is saying that *If* she didn’t run then she would be falling into the hands of her enemies that she was indeed playing games with her supporters; he’s not saying that she was nor that her character IS like that! She has given enough signs that she is running
IF she were to opt out now, she will have been teasing her potential supporters who could and should help the best candidate that they can find who IS running.
The survival of our country depends on getting rid of Obama. She knows it and we know it. And that means, realistically, that he will have to be ousted by the GOP nominee. The process of finding the GOP nominee needs to get underway, and in fact, already is well underway.
That is why potentially strong candidates like Thune, Jindahl, Barbour, Huckabee did the right and moral thing by freeing up any potential supporters earlier and letting them go elsewhere. And she has many, many, many more supporters than all of these guys, so that same moral burden would apply to her more so, than to these guys. IF she were not to run, that would be very, very bad. Showing up at the Iowa premiere would be the final straw.
At the end of the day, there is only one issue in this campaign and it is to defeat Obama. Everything that we get beyond that that is conservative, is all the better.
There is only one rational, non-self-serving reason to time one’s appearances in places like NH and Iowa with other campaigns. And that is because you are also running, and this is part of her campaign (albeit not “official”). It is truly a brilliant strategy, and I support it entirely.
But...in the off chance that she decides not to run, I think that would be negative in the extreme, and extremely unflattering. (That is a “logical” possibility, but I don’t think a real one. She’s in.)