I keep seeing Palin supporters making this feeble claim. The reason most candidates get a bump when they enter the race is because they are not well-known, so they pick up a lot of people who are taking a look at them for the first time. Palin has almost 100% name recognition, and she has been campaigning almost non-stop for three years, if you include her TV shows, Tea Party events, bus tours, Fox News gig, etc. Almost everyone knows her and almost everyone has an opinion - for almost 2/3 of them, that opinion is negative. So she is not going to suddenly get a bump in the polls because she jumps in. To do that, she is going to have to start changing people's minds about her.And I'll tell you, I'm trying real hard to not let the Palin supporters here in FR color my opinion of Palin but, man, it's hard. They are SOOOO much like the Ron Paul supporters. Not all of them. But the ones who feel duty-bound to chase around every Perry thread. Even the Ron Paul supporters don't do that. They post stupid stuff on Ron Paul threads. But the fanatics who THINK they are doing Palin a favor (they most decidedly are not) by busting into every Perry thread and taking a crap on the floor (WORSE than Ron Paul supporters, now that I think of it) are only making their own case look weak.
My question to THOSE Palin supporters (and I know they are a minority but they are a very very vocal minority):
If you have such a great candidate why do you have to go around so PERSISTENTLY acting like an A-HOLE????
We both have earned tough hides from being here a decade or more. I’m sure more would speak out, but seeing the nasty vitriolic personal attacks for having an opinion that does not agree with theirs is the deterrent.
Courage belongs to those who don’t follow the pack.