I’m beginning to think she isn’t running. She is absolutely right that candidates should be sensitive to actions that are wrong, or look wrong.
She is on a TV show, being paid to discuss the campaign and the debate, and is making attacks or defenses of various candidates. She is doing this under the cover of being a commentator for a news organization, getting free air time for her commentary.
If she announced tomorrow that she was running, it would look like she was using her paid position to take down other candidates to clear the way for her run. But Sarah Palin would never do that — she understands the appearance of wrongdoing.
I think Perry wasn’t as careful in his years as governor as he could have been. I don’t think he did anything wrong, but in 10 years of having to get donations, he was going to have a few that people could exploit.
Palin is fortunate — she never ran for office while in office, so she never had to worry about getting donations that might look funny (check it out, she never raised a dime while she was Governor, it was all before her election).
Amen.
Ah yes, but she did do a lot of fundraising here in Arizona (and other places) when she ran as VP and I know she did a LOT of fundraisers for McCain when he was running for senate. I hope none of those were connected with any businesses or someone might accuse her of crony capitalism. But I'm sure NONE of those contributions were from businesses.