Sarah Palin to Mark Levin: I would run for higher office 'again in a heartbeat'

[DonViejo]

BY JOE CONCHA - 04/09/18 09:27 AM EDT

Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Sunday that she would run for higher office again “in a heartbeat.” Palin made the remark to new Fox News host Mark Levin after he asked her if she was glad that she ran for vice president in 2008 on Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) ticket.

“Oh yes, I would do it again in a heartbeat,” replied Palin. “I will push back harder on some of those who were trying to mold me into something that I was not during the campaign. I would’ve pushed back and gotten more truth out there, but yes.” The idea that aides to McCain restrained Palin during the campaign was a major subject of the book and film about the 2008 campaign, “Game Change.”

Palin told Levin that she was surprised the McCain campaign didn’t offer more of a defense for her against what she described as unfair treatment by the media.

“I was surprised because in Alaska, as I mentioned, my ratings were very high, things were going well in the court of public opinion, so I was mostly shocked that the campaign itself didn’t defend against a lot of the lies that were being spewed during the campaign,” she said. “And then when that narrative was created, they created a character of Sarah Palin and the Palin family.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Still Mavericking after all these years...

[MichMary]

2. Please run, Sarah.

Please.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. So why hasn't she?

Talk is cheap, Sarah.

[Va Lefty]

4. Translation--I need media attention to grift more $ from the rubes.

Jeez, she didn't even finish her first term.

[NewJeffCT]

5. The way Trump is burning through staff

we could have Sarah Palin, Chief of Staff or Communications Director within a few months.

[leftstreet]

6. Why is she showing up in the media lately?

Is Trump thinking of her as VP in case the Democrats run a woman?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Aides to McCain "restrained" Palin?

Seriously?

[Kittycow]

10. Offhand, they wouldn't let her give a VP concession speech.

I also vaguely remember there might have been some dog whistle, race baiting stuff even worse than what she did.

I was a moderate Republican at the time ( ) but her nasty speech at the GOP Convention forever changed me.

I think the young people call that "woke". (I'm on the other side of the Generation Gap here ).

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. I guess that I remember the VP concession speech (something which never happens BTW)

The convention speech was a nasty piece of work. I was never a Republican, nor was I planning to vote for McCain anyway but, as a Social Worker, her mean-spirited dismissal of "community organizers" really set a horrible tone for McCain/GOP's campaign that year. Since the campaign, she was as nasty as she wanted to be and we had to put up with her lowly attacks on President Obama for years past her expiration date.

[Soxfan58]

8. Sarah

Go Away!!!!!!!!

[DonCoquixote]

9. If trump decides to dump pence

especially since he knows Jesus-land really wants Pence in, he can take Sarah who is his ideal mate: a stupid beauty queen.

[Runningdawg]

11. Ratings high in Canada

What a crock. My BFs sister lives in Wassila, she's lived there for decades. The whole family is a joke to anyone who knows them.

[SonofDonald]

28. Her brother in law is a friend of mine

Well back in the early 90's he was.

I was at JD's house taking a communal steam bath with the local men's club, drink beer, shoot the shit, sweat your brains out.

After the steam I went into the house to meet Todd, his brother, a snow machine racer of note.

He brought his wife Sarah along, I was introduced, her nose was so far in the air and she had an attitude, I was just a peon its seemed

I didn't care for her then, about a thousand times more now.

Airhead of massive proportions.

And a full blown nut job

[ProfessorGAC]

12. And Then Quit When Things Get Tough

Again. Besides, it's all talk. She's damaged goods. She's the punch line of a joke.

[LakeArenal]

14. Exactly.

[Permanut]

13. "..All the lies that were being spewed during the campaign.."

I'll just wait here for an example.

[RoBear]

18. yeah...

me, too.

[packman]

15. I'm still puzzled at her exodus

One day she's on that bus, spewing out this and that and the next day - POOF- gone. Not that I'm sad about it, but I never read a reason for her sudden disappearing act.

[malthaussen]

16. Did you run through all your money already, Sarah?

I was just saying the other day that Mrs Palin had been silent since Mr Trump was "elected."

-- Mal

[smirkymonkey]

17. I think we have enough drama going on in the political world right now without

that nutcase adding fuel to the fire. She's caused enough damage already.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

19. So Caribou Barbie wants to run for higher office?

What? They need a Dog Catcher in Wasilla?

[DFW]

21. Oh, abso-fucking-LUTE-ly!!!!!

The primary debate between Sarah Palin and Donald Trump: the DVD will sell a million copies in the first week alone.

Look for it in the comedy section.

[Turbineguy]

22. She's too qualified

to replace trump. The GOP won't have her as a candidate.

[lastlib]

23. Sarah, I hate to break it to ya, but your time's passed.....

(Someone's gotta tell ya....) The fourteenth century was LONG ago, and LONG OVER! There's just no market for it anymore. You're an ox-cart in a world of spacecraft.

[lastlib]

24. Be still, my beating heart!......

[RhodeIslandOne]

25. The Klondike Kardashian will try to wrangle the Trumpkins

After Dolt 45 gets incarcerated

[50 Shades Of Blue]

26. Oh and please get your violent whackjob jailbird son Track to campaign for you, Sarah!

[struggle4progress]

27. Vote for Twitter/Quitter 2020!

[GallopingGhost]

29. I listened to her

for a minute (all I could take) on Levin's show yesterday, and I don't know what the hell she was babbling about, but I heard her say, "it's just whack."

She's nuts.

[Orsino]

30. "Heartbeat" is probably the exact wrong word with which to sell any Palin candidacy.

But the grift pickings must be slim these days, if Fox is letting her pimp another run for office. Hard to imagine her seeking an actual job.