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Sarah Palin's moment

If she intends to run, now's the time:
She hasn’t made any effort to put together a skeleton organization or to sustain any sort of continuous presence in national political discourse. But throughout the “invisible primary,” Palin has consistently said that if she wanted to, she could run the kind of wildly unconventional campaign that makes polling, organization, and the attitudes of elites completely irrelevant. It is perhaps worth considering the possibility that she believes what she is saying. If she does, the current situation must look tempting indeed.
I think I've made my view on the situation rather clear lately: she won't run. I'd quite happily include myself among those who, in the author's words, "conclude her chronic refusal to rule out a run is no more than a ruse to keep her name in the news." That happens to be exactly what I think.