Sarah Palin has not closed the door even a presidential candidate. However, few Republicans seem to be waiting for your reply.
It was never clearer than on Tuesday when the announcement that Chris Christie would not run in 2012 caused a multitude of strategists to conclude the Republican field was set at last - no matter the indecision of Palin. A new survey released the same day revealed that two thirds of Republicans do not want to run.
After spending most of three years at the center of national political scene, the first vice presidential candidate seems to have exhausted the patience of the Republicans.
Although Republicans are set to seek new options, only a minority are watching eagerly to Wasilla - Palin or any other hidden agenda is in, travel largely apolitical.
"She moves a lot of conservatives at the base, but I think that conservatives are looking to her as a presidential candidate who can save the conservative movement," said Chuck Muth, a conservative activist based in Nevada. "What niche in the conservative movement is full of Sarah Palin is not already occupied by one of the other candidates?"
Ralph Reed, director of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, suggested that Palin could resonate with the same kind of voter who gravitates toward Bachmann and Rick Perry.
"A person who is a devout Christian and a strong social conservative who also has a lot of credentials with the protest movement," said Reed. "When you have candidates Herman Cain beating favorites to win [the Florida poll] showing that the activists are right now and I think it is right in the wheelhouse of Palin."
However, he warned, "There would be room for her, but the clock is ticking."
Palin seemed unconcerned by the pressure of time last week, when they passed in front of his own end of September deadline for deciding on the presidential race. She told Fox News that she still has to consider whether a candidate "prohibit [her] to be there in a box, not allowing the drivers that shape me."
She is not running that thought process is: Palin to travel to South Korea next week to speak at an economic forum, even though the deadlines in New Hampshire and South Carolina are weeks.
At the same time, more and more primary voters seem to be drifting away from Palin.
Indeed, while dragging its decision of 2012, a politician who has often complained that they talk negatively, you risk an even grimmer fate: do not talk at all.
In a survey of Washington Post / ABC News released this week, only 31 percent of Republican primary voters said they wanted Palin for president. Sixty-six percent said it should not enter the race.
Earlier, in August Pew survey showed that two-fifths of Republicans - 41 percent - said there was "no possibility" that Palin had supported in 2012.
Despite its universal name recognition, Palin rarely scores higher than the low teens in the polls of the Republican Party primary. That's enough for a third or fourth place, but not much else.
Ed Rollins, former campaign manager for Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann, predicted flatly that Palin would not be 2012 GOP standard-bearer, if you decide to try.
"Maybe he could attract some voters Bachmann, Cain and some voters may come off as tea party candidate, but it will not end up being the candidate," said Rollins.
Rollins emphasized the miniscule amount of time that Palin would have to prepare, "Throw in the challenge to participate in several debates, putting together a campaign organization in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and Florida, and the collection sufficient funds to compete in those states is a recipe for failure. "
