Some people are simply incapable of noticing the writing on the wall.

I still have at least this much of  chance don't I?

From Real Clear Politics:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has tasked her aides with quietly gauging her level of support for a potential presidential campaign by making inquiries to a select pool of likely allies and grassroots activists in Iowa, RealClearPolitics has learned.

Key Republican officials and operatives in the nation's first voting state had begun to assume that Palin would not run for president in 2012 since most of them have not heard a word from her or from her small circle of aides, even as other likely candidates have begun jockeying more forcefully behind the scenes. But a Palin adviser confirmed that although the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee's footprint has not been as heavy as that of other possible candidates, her political action committee has indeed been taking discreet steps in Iowa that would help her build a credible campaign here if she decided to launch one.

"The idea that we're not in Iowa is inaccurate," SarahPAC adviser Andy Davis told RealClearPolitics.

A top official in the Iowa Tea Party who insisted on anonymity to avoid betraying Palin's trust told RealClearPolitics that a friend of SarahPAC met with him in person in Des Moines late last year and prodded him for suggestions on how Palin might mount a grassroots campaign in the state.

Seriously?

After having been connected to an attempted assassination in Tucson, with poll numbers now at an all time low, and with a spanking new sex scandal involving her husband currently picking up steam on the internet, one has to question the sanity of a person who would seriously contemplate the idea of launching a campaign for the GOP Presidential nomination at this time.

If Howard Dean could be knocked out of the running with nothing more than a scream, and George Allen see his hopes and dreams deflated after just one word, how in the hell is it that Palin is so disconnected from reality that she does not notice the giant fork sticking out of her political career right now?

But hey, I guess if she were at least semi-intelligent and capable of making rational decisions she wouldn't be Sarah Palin, now would she?

Fine bring it on lady.  As far as I am concerned the higher you climb before reality knocks the stool out from under you, the bigger the crater will be when you land. And that works for me just fine.