The post-event reviews, however, have not been kind.
BBCNews is the only news media I've seen to report on Sarah Palin's rambling, while speaking in January 2015,
in Iowa, among a tribe of US Republican (conservative)
presidential wanna-bees.
Palin surely thinks highly of herself!
The Sarah Palin surge may be over before it really began.
The former Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee made headlines when she said she had a "servant's heart" and was "interested" and then "seriously interested" in running for president in 2016.Thanks to these remarks, and the devoted following she still commands, the national spotlight was firmly on Ms Palin as she took to the stage on Saturday at a gathering of presidential aspirants before grassroots conservatives in Des Moines, Iowa.
The post-event reviews, however, have not been kind.
The Washington Examiner's Byron York calls her 33-minute speech "long, rambling and at times barely coherent".
Ms Palin spoke about media bias, the film American Sniper, Barack Obama, energy policy, Margaret Thatcher and women in politics, among other topics. And while she did supply a steady diet of her trademark zingers - "The man can only ride you when your back is bent" - the end result was something more akin to avante garde, improvisational performance art.
"By the time Palin finished speaking, it was hard for anyone to believe she truly is 'seriously interested' in running for president," York concluded.
The speech isn't the only evidence that Ms Palin's presidential aspirations may be nothing more than talk, however. As the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza points out, while other possible candidates have been building campaign infrastructure and engaging in the often gruelling work of courting local party functionaries, Ms Palin has done nothing.
"Yes, by dint of her name recognition and the vaunted place she occupies for some part of the conservative movement, if she announced her candidacy tomorrow there would be a constituency for her," he writes. "But her ability to build and grow that constituency in a way that would allow her to, you know, actually have a chance at winning would be entirely dependent on her having built a political apparatus that she has never shown an interest in doing."
In my opinion, Sarah Palin is like the opening act in a vaudeville routine. She draws and audience and warms up the right wingers. At the end of the day, Ms. Palin says the words, takes the money and goes home to Alaska.
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