IMO, she wanted to enter the race.
I think “something” happened after her September speech in Iowa that caused her to change her mind. Whether family or Republican Party pressure or some outside influence, I don’t know. But I’m nearly positive that the GOPe is working behind the scenes to insure she doesn’t run in 2016.
We’ll see.
family is the reason why she did not run I think and after what her family has been through then who could blame her
that’s one of the few reasons I’m looking forward to the book by those Game Change guys about the 2012 election. If anyone is able to ferret out what really happened in Sep/Oct 2011, it may be those guys.
I too think she was going to run. A lot of the stuff she did in 2010/2011 doean’t really make any sense if she wasn’t planning on running.
Something clearly happened in Sep of 2011. I don’t know if it was family or health related, or something more nefarious.
Of course we’ll never know how a run would have turned out. I think she’d have either won comfortably or totally flamed out like Perry did. Either she’d have done well in debates and on the trail and won IA, SC and then FL and the nomination. Or she’d have crashed and burned like Perry did with some bad debate answer or tv interview.
If she had gotten the nomination we’ll never know either, and Obama probably still would have won, but I think if she had the right advisors and ran the right campaign(going after Obama on crony capitalism and hisl ack of action against Wall St and calling for an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan) taht she’d have won a close election.
In any event, I think she’d at least have had a chance to win. Romney never did. Romney had a much better chance of losing by a tighter margin than she did(she could easily have gotten blown out Mondale/Goldwater style), but she also had a chance of actually winning.
I think “something” happened after her September speech in Iowa that caused her to change her mind. Whether family or Republican Party pressure or some outside influence, I don’t know.
That is exactly my thoughts. I remember that speech. I believe it was Indianola??
Sarah was on fire. One could tell she was laying out a plan to restore our Republic.
I wish we did know what happened to change her mind..