Palin: I'm considering a Senate run
Source: CNN
The former Alaska governor, who was also 2008's GOP vice presidential nominee, said Tuesday she's contemplating a bid for U.S. Senate against Democrat Mark Begich. He's up for re-election in 2014.
"I've considered it because people have requested me [to] consider it," Palin told conservative radio host Sean Hannity on his show. "I'm still waiting to see what the lineup will be. And hoping there will be some new blood, new energy. Not just kind of picking from the same old politicians in the state that come from political families."
Begich, a former mayor of Anchorage, was elected in 2008. He defeated longtime GOP Sen. Ted Stevens, who died in 2010 in a plane crash.
Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/09/palin-im-considering-a-senate-run/?hpt=hp_t2
C'mon, we couldn't possibly be this lucky...
muntrv
(14,505 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I can't stand seeing her all over TV again. The best thing ever was when she was fired from Faux.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Maybe that has something to do with her getting back into politics. She has a huge spotlight to exploit now.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)... when she realized she was out of a job she backed down and signed the new contract with the pay cut.
I doubt she will actually run for office, she'd rather just be on TV spewing her BS.
Cirque du So-What
(25,999 posts)I see that she's still torturing the English language.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)maybe a civics class as well.
David__77
(23,558 posts)I don't think her verbal skills are really the problem. I also don't think someone with poor language skills should necessarily be precluded from gaining progressive support. There are so many other reasons to oppose her.
Aristus
(66,478 posts)why not point out what a marble-mouthed moron she is?
David__77
(23,558 posts)Trust me, I had no intention of defending her. Just making a point that I might have a double standard for a progressive that talks like that.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)okay to talk about it. She is a numbskull. I've known that since 1996. Its time everyone else did. By the way, she isn't running. Trust me.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)they were all democrats
defacto7
(13,485 posts)"American is an evolving language"
red dog 1
(27,875 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Historic NY
(37,454 posts)I can just see her arguing on the Senate floor.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)I'd send her some cash for that.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)Let's move this column into the solid blue column.
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)A bunch of horny teabaggers who live in Tennessee or Idaho are not going to help Corrupt Sarah win an election in Alaska, where they know her ass and are NOT real happy with her.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Wait for the others too. Circus city and McConnell race is gonna be mean.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)she replied "Two years isn't really that bad, I was the Governor of Alaska for that long".
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Ter
(4,281 posts)I'm not so sure.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Dumb vs. Dumber
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)rurallib
(62,465 posts)5, 6 years?
Oh well, the scamming bucks must be getting low - time to fleece the sheeps again
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)NoGOPZone
(2,971 posts)she would serve at two.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)She has lost most of her popularity in that state. Besides, I don't think she is serious about running. She is probably just saying this to get attention.
woodsprite
(11,931 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)didn't she recently threaten to start a new party?
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)She is really all over the place lately.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)This has a crappy effect on the bad image Congress already has.
Right honorable bimbo.
allin99
(894 posts)i mean, no offense, but don't you have to have a great deal of law experience? She's not qualified for anything except stupid. damn, it sounds harsh, but i kinda mean it in all seriousness.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)in fact I'd say they were downright synonymous
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)First of course I'd have to know something about the field.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)She said a couple weeks ago she was thinking of starting a Freedom Party.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)lastlib
(23,323 posts). . . . . . .
trusty elf
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Lucky Luciano
(11,264 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)And there was much rejoicing.
mckara
(1,708 posts)Lasher
(27,641 posts)If memory serves, she threatened to run for another office and backed out. The consensus here was she never intended to run.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)could swear I remember reading some little blurb about it.... ??
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)She incorrectly assumes she could defeat Begich
jimlup
(7,968 posts)She's dumb as a post but a dumb post in the US Senate can be a problem as we can clearly see from the Republicans already there.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)We Alaskans are sick and tired of Sarah big hair Palin! Begich could beat her in a write in campaign.
Like Murkowski beat her boy Joe Miller. She embarrasses the shit out of us.
If she runs Shannon Moore will enjoy exposing the hell out of her!
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 10, 2013, 06:23 PM - Edit history (1)
And her website, Mudflats, is hilarious. Yes, Palin would be pilloried. And her approval rating is already in the toilet.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I think we hate Palin more than the rest of the country combined. We love to make fun of her and troopergate.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)She's friends with Shannon Moore.
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)Http://www.themudflats.net
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)makes good on the talk he's been spreading about running as an independent.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I wouldn't pick him over Begich. Sarah just needs to go back into her hole.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Knowles would only have to pull about five to seven percent of the vote to swing the race, and swinging it might be enough for him. My impression is that he wants vengeance against Mark for some reason-what other possible rationale could he have for running what he would have to know would be a hopeless race?
Knowles is responsible in significant measure for the condition the Alaska Democratic Party finds itself in now...when he was governor, he never wanted the Democrats to take over either chamber of the state legislature OR even to gain any significant number of seats(and refused to campaign for Democratic legislative candidates in virtually any district(even though it wouldn't have cost him a single seat to do so). This meant that when Frank Murkowski beat Fran Ulmer in the 2002 governor's race, Democrats in Alaska were left with nothing at all. And he did next to nothing to help Diane Benson when she had a real shot at beating Don Young for the Alaska congressional seat in 2006(Knowles was trying to get back into the governor's office that year, and managed, to his eternal disgrace, to LOSE an election to Sarah Palin). Ironically, after all that, Knowles and Benson ended up with virtually the same percentage of the popular vote...each winning about 41%.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)The Democratic Party is weak up here, and I don't think bringing him back will help at all. I just can't imagine him in the senate, and I reall hate the idea of Palin ever holding office again. Bu if she runs, she'll get all the attention. And sadly I never know what she's talking about.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)That's why he ended up blowing a huge lead against Lisa Murkowski, even though the vast majority of the electorate in this state were outraged that her daddy, Frank Murkowski, had elevated her to the Senate by appointing her to his old seat when he was elected governor.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Being a republican woman senator has got to be hard if you're not insane. Or inane. Or have some strange ideas.
I never knew you could appoint a family member. I was shocked that it was legal.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)of Alaska would have a difficult time electing someone who just up and quit as Governor.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)SHE'S NUTS !!!!!
delrem
(9,688 posts)6000eliot
(5,643 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Palin doesn't have a chance of running for office again.
She's been on tv for years already, yet we all know that she shouldn't be!!!
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)that in the Senate, she'll have to serve 3 years - nut just two?
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)All she's doing is trying to drum up some attention from the media (who's basically written her off) in hopes of boosting her sagging donations once again.
She's a fucking idiot...still, also, too, you betcha!
truthisfreedom
(23,159 posts)EVER.
faithnomore
(41 posts)a front seat in the hottest part of hell for bringing this malignant, hate-spewing, tramp into the public limelight.
sinkingfeeling
(51,482 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)Yavin4
(35,450 posts)If so, then no way she's running.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)So, when do you think she will move back??