I'm apparently the only pundit in the whole country who thinks that Sarah Palin is running for president this year - but I'm sorry, Sarah Palin keeps really acting like she is running. --- Rachel Maddow, 8/11/11
I don't get this. Is it feasible that a pundit could think Sarah Palin is going to eventually jump into the 2012 presidential race? Yes. I suppose that is possible. However, what I find entirely inconsistent with Ms. Maddow's logic is that she was the same pundit who spent the winter asserting that Newt Gingrich was "faking it" when he was indicating that he was going to run... that he was essentially only trying to seem to be a potential candidate so that he could continue to get high profile Sunday morning news show guest spots and, more importantly, so he could monetize his seeming relevance (i.e. so he could scam the gullible out of their money).
If you ask me, that is EXACTLY what Sarah Palin is doing! And yet Ms. Maddow doesn't see it? I don't get it.
Sarah Palin is not hiring significant staff. She is not raising a significant amount of money. All she is doing (with, for example, her trek to the Iowa State Fair this weekend) is trying to protect her "brand" without doing any actual hard work.
It is, by all accounts, a serious pain-in-the-ass to credibily run for President. That is more work than Sarah Palin is willing to do right now.
Rachel Maddow should know that.
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