The same scurillous center-lefty site, Think Progress, is reporting a rumor to the effect that Ms Paleo’s many fans are attempting to alter Wiki’s Paul Revere citation to fit her narrative.
At present, this is an unsubstantiated report and your correspondent takes no responsibility for the truthiness or abundant lack thereof. Or much of anything else, for that matter. Just sayin’, is all.
Granted Stephen Colbert probably isn’t an authoritative cite, but it sounds like she’s got pretty wide latitude as long as she doesn’t officially declare herself a candidate.
Colbert isn’t, but he asked the guy who is apparently in charge of this sort of thing, and he confirmed it was okay as long as she didn’t declare herself as a candidate. Hence the reason she is refusing to say she is running.