Palin says 2012 presidential bid a possibility

[OhioChick]

Source: CNN.com

February 7, 2010 6:03 p.m. EST

(CNN) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she would consider a run for president in 2012 if the situation was right for her family and the nation.

In an interview recorded Saturday and broadcast on "FOX News Sunday," Palin said she would run "if I believed that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family."

"I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country," Palin said, later adding: "I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future."

The interview was recorded before her keynote address Saturday night at what was billed the first national Tea Party convention. Palin, who had little national profile before running unsuccessfully for vice president on Sen. John McCain's Republican ticket in 2008, remains a leading GOP draw and an unofficial symbol of the Tea Party movement of conservative discontent with government.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/07/palin.presidential.run.tea.party/

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1. My prediction is that she'll be the VP pick of whoever the repukes nominate...nt

[State the Obvious]

5. Liz Cheney would love to have Palin (VP) bring her crazy supporters on board. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. But would the Repubs have her again??

[onehandle]

3. Palin says 2012 attention getting book tour and speaking gig pimping a possibility

That's all it would be.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. And Mark Halperin (author of "Game Change") commented that SP's speaking fees

go waaaaaay down the minute she says she ISN'T running.

There may be motivation for being receptive in theory.

[blue_onyx]

6. I doubt she'll run...

She won't be able to make it through the Republican primary. If a third party, however, asks her to be their nominee, I could see her accepting the nomination.

[MO_Dem]

7. But would she run for a full term or half of a term?

Or maybe even for just a 6 month term to see if she really likes the job or not? :evilgrin:

[SergeStorms]

32. Right

If she couldn't stand "living in the fishbowl" of Alaskan politics, how would she fare being President of the entire United States of America? :eyes:

Palin is a self-serving jackass. Putting herself in the spotlight where all of her warts (literal, figurative and genital) would be exposed for all to see is not her style. She loves to poke sticks at everyone from the sidelines, where she can blend in and hide easier when the going gets tough. She's just another loud mouth GOP demagogue, and serving herself comes way before serving her country. :puke:

[Lil Missy]

8. Please let it be so.

[MercutioATC]

10. Be careful what you wish for.

I think you're overestimating the intelligence of the American voter.

[prezpeng]

11. Scary....maybe true too

That would be very interesting tho...you betcha!

[secondwind]

16. Independents would not vote for her in huge numbers.....Obama won by almost 11 million votes,

I don't think Palin can overcome that large margin.

[prezpeng]

9. Of course, that was the plan

All along, that is the money shot, and that is all she is interested in...everyone knows that, except of course those who have their head in the sand and believe in Gods, Demons and witchcraft like Sarah does...

[No Elephants]

12. "Run, Sarah, run" was the chant at the Tea Party convention.

[Moostache]

13. PLEASE let her be a 3rd party candidate!!!

Best of all worlds!

1)NO ONE who would vote for her is EVER going to support Obama anyway...
2)ANY ONE who would vote for her would automatically be a REPUKE voter by default in a two-party election...
3)the pure comedy of watching her in a live debate would be priceless...

Independent voters in this country cannot possibly be so stupiod as to even consider voting for her...could they? <nervous>

[secondwind]

17. never happen. Relax...I for one sure wish she'd run, it would be a cakewalk.

[NBachers]

28. Stupiod!

[Moostache]

31. D'OH!!! LOL....it IS contagious!!!

Beware..."teh crazee" can be caught from viewing too many Tea Party signs in short periods of time!!!!

[NBachers]

37. You shouldn't have copped to it. Everyone thought you were emulating

teabagger's pathological fatel stupiodidity and innebilaty to spel.

[tomm2thumbs]

14. just write it on her hand when she's sleeping 'Run 4 Prez' and she'll do it

she does whatever 'the hand' tells her to do

[secondwind]

15. the Republican Machine would never pin their hopes on Palin....it guarantees an Obama win, for sure!

Palin could never raise the $$ needed for a Presidential run.....she would need 500-700 million!!! never happen.

[AlinPA]

19. The republican party base are teabaggers, birthers, fundamentalist/evangelical, and

anti-immigrant, anti-science, anti-gay voters. She fits perfectly in there.

[tinrobot]

18. She's in it for the money...

Every action she's taken while in/out of public office has been financially motivated.

She's more valuable as a potential candidate, so she'll be a potential candidate and haul home more cash.

[PSzymeczek]

22. If she's in it for the money,

she won't run. The President makes only $400K a year. That's not enough for her.

[tinrobot]

24. She has no interest in governing....

If she was, she would have stayed on as governor.

She may not run, but if she does, it not be to win, but to turn a profit. Collect donations that will be funneled to family members who are on her payroll, and various other money laundering tricks.

[Frank Booth]

20. This is scary as hell. It scares me a hell of a lot more than another terrorist attack,

Iran getting nuclear weapons, North Korea, or almost any of the other things we're supposed to be scared about.

When people laugh about Sarah Palin running it pisses me off -- how can anyone overestimate the intelligence of the average voter after 8 years of hell under Bush/Cheney??

[KaryninMiami]

21. Of course she's going to give it a try- and she may do well but

as soon as the media starts really focusing on who she really is, (some of which is currently in the hands of MSNBC), and of how much of a fraud she is, she will be stopped dead in her tracks. That is of course, if the media and the wimpy DNC aren't afraid to call her out on her bullshit once and for all.

Did anyone prominent from the DNC make any statement about Tancredo's disgustinly racist keynote address? If so, please share that with me- I may have missed it but it sure didn't appear that anyone except bloggers and a few reporters mentioned it. I want our party to stand up and call him out too.

I want Howard Dean back in control of the DNC. He and David Plaugh would be terrific together.

[SoapBox]

23. Uhh...pardon me whilst I vomit.

barfo!

Can you imagine...The President...and the best they can do is attack foreign leaders with "zingers"...and of course bombs.

Let The Bombing Begin and get your rapture hat on!

[mimi85]

25. Well, the debate would be fun!

Can you even imagine watching her up against Obama? Boggles the mind.

[NBachers]

29. You want to see Obama mop the slaughterhouse floor with her,

but he'd be "diplomatic" and "sportsmanlike" and "gentlemanly."

[davidpdx]

30. Hands out barf bags

[Blasphemer]

26. Sounds great to me. She will fail spectacularly... nt

[Berry Cool]

27. "I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do

to help our country."

Good! That means she'll be vanishing soon. That will help a lot.

[MilesColtrane]

33. She's got electrolytes...it's what plants crave!

[sandyj999]

34. Was there ever any doubt? n/t

[CanonRay]

35. "You have to promise not to ask me any hard questions"

Like what newspapers I read.

[Jefferson23]

36. I look forward to the Republican primary debates.

[Blue Owl]

38. she'll lose handily

and I greatly look forward to that.

[Courtesy Flush]

39. That fact that she's taken seriously at all

scares me to death. :dunce:

[420inTN]

40. YES! RUN, SARAH RUN!

This would be the best thing for our country!

[jmowreader]

41. She won't run.

It is a LOT more fun to talk ill of the chaismatic man with the teleprompter than it is to be him.

This is the thing: Right now, Sarah's in the best position she could possibly be in. Fox built a television studio in her home. Around seven every morning she can get up, have a leisurely cup of coffee, relax while her stylist prepares her for the camera, go on the air and say anything she wants...she can go to any gathering she wants and speak...she doesn't have to sit around and worry about nuclear waste security or coal exports...and right now the people she goes around love her and would do anything for her. If she was president she'd have to worry about lots of things, the Secret Service wouldn't let her husband race snow machines or maintain the family commercial fishing allocation, the Sun wouldn't be using the "adorable" picture of her it has now...oh, and she'd find out at least 50 percent of the country disapproved of everything she did.

"Saying" you want to be president is far different from being president. Sarah would learn that quick. I'd give her a year before she resigned.

[Zorra]

42. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to have someone even dumber than Bu$h

elected to the Presidency?

We'd definitely be a bonafide full-blown idiocracy with Caribou Barbie in the WH.