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I agree. She and Bachmann both looked witchy. I have a question for you. When do you think the Palinistas are going to realize she’s stringing them along for the funding? November 2012?

Maybe she’s hoping to hold out long enough to avoid debating candidates that are smarter than her....?

Actually I don’t think she has any intentions to run. She is making big bucks in the private sector and even she knows she has zero chance of winning.

I agree. She and Bachmann both looked witchy. I have a question for you. When do you think the Palinistas are going to realize she’s stringing them along for the funding? November 2012?

But, but, but, ... I thought she couldn't be bought - oh, wait, that's her buying a bunch of sheep for her flock, ain't it.

DRey, Someone shared something very sincere with me the other day, and it struck a chord with me. I'm not so sure Sarah Palin is just "stringing them along for funding". I have been tempted to think that, but I don't really think so now. I've found myself wondering recently if it has just been an issue of too few funds for her to enter at this time, especially since she would be fighting for a position amongst so many other candidates still at this point.

Question first: Might she have been trying to raise some money (or PR to raise more money) for a run by her tour and her movie, etc.? That is not a comment. That is a question, really. I don't know how that works. Can she use her tour money, FOX News contributor salary money, Undefeated movie money, etc. to use to get into the race?

Now a comment: Sarah Palin probably DOESN'T have a whole lot of money to work with right now as far as Presidential campaigns go. Plus it would look like she probably did not get a whole lot more funding from her movie. It sold out for a few showings in a few locations - where the local Republican Party or a local Tea Party purchased big block tickets for specific showings but also had almost empty showings in some other locations. The movie was quickly pulled from the theaters and added to pay-per-view and then was scheduled for a Walmart store release on October 4. That's pretty quick to move through that process. Add to this that her late entrance has not provided her the opportunity to get the same kind of campaign funds many others have for a national campaign.

I may have felt "teased" for a while, but I'm beginning to think it is not a matter of "stringing people along" but one of not having the funds needed to get into the game.

Some of her supporters may think she'll just dive in and immediately get all the donations she needs to do all she needs to do. I am not in that frame of thinking. I think it would be a very big struggle for her at this point, but I do have empathy for her situation if it is simply a lack of funds that has been keeping her out of the race.

Just some thoughts.