Look the Palin hype was much like the Fred hype last election. Neither one wanted the job. Both were place holders for beltway and DISCOURAGED more serious conservatives from challenging the RINO’s. The best we have this time is Herman Cain. The Beltway thugs will pull no punches too try and bring him down and Romney up on the ticket just as McCain was boosted last election.Nothing she did from late spring on showed she was going too actually run. The dry run bus tours were the biggest giveaway. Instead she kept conservatives in limbo till the too late moment.
I’ll believe to my dying day that Sarah intended to run all along, but that something derailed her plans at the last moment.
I’ve watched every move she’s made for the last three years. She did everything to set herself up for a presidential run, except to file. No one does and says all that she did, to simply tease millions of faithful supporters (or to be a ‘place-holder’, as you claim).
If you also watched her carefully during all that time and drew a different conclusion, then I’d say you already had pre-conceived notions about her to begin with.