Does palin even want to be president?

[sadbear]

We've had this discussion before. She's making obscene money now. Why would she give that up? A lot of us are convinced that she will run, but after the blood-libel video, can we reassess? Would someone who was serious about running in the first place ever make that video? (Yes, I know she's dumb, but the question still needs to be asked.) Will even more money pour into her coffers after convincing her followers of her victimhood? Would she rather continue to be kingmaker than be king?

[PoliticAverse]

1. Don't underestimate how much money someone can make by running for president...

if they don't really try that hard to win by spending all they take in.

[blueknight]

2. are you kidding me?

With her ego? what do you think?

[EV_Ares]

3. Well according to Chuck Todd and Roger Simon people will have forgotten about

the video by the time she runs for president. In other words as they said, make your mistakes early enough so they will be forgotten.

[elocs]

4. The mask is slowly slipping off Palin until at last most will see the empress has no clothes.

I just created a thread about Palin. Lord knows it will cost me some time in purgatory for doing it, but I think it does have a message: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x199602

[Blue_Tires]

5. Of course not...But as long as she keeps playing make-believe

the money will keep rolling in...

She'll keep it up until the primaries and drop out, and then all the legit GOP candidates will STILL kiss her ass trying to win her all-important endorsement...

[sadbear]

7. That's the point of my last question

Kingmaker or king? (At this point, I say she enjoys being a kingmaker. There's A LOT more money in it. And she doesn't have to restrain herself, or lead all Americans. It's an easier job that pays more. Kinda' like grifting.)

[Auggie]

15. Exactly

[spanone]

6. power trumps money....then power brings money

[LibDemAlways]

8. I think Palin has very little interest in being President. Too much work.

She's enjoying raking in the cash. She's made a boatload from her speeches, book advances, and tv show. I think she'll continue to voice her rightwing nonsense to adoring crowds of kool-aid drinkers and be available to toss some red meat at repuke conventions, but I think she knows (and the party knows) she'd be poison on a ticket.

[stubtoe]

19. Yep. What she's after is ATTENTION.

Any way she can get it.

[charlie]

9. She wants the office, not the job

Like when she was governor.

[Zambero]

10. No, but Sarah Paycheck will milk it for all it's worth

Being President of the U.S. is impossibly demanding, 24/7, and she's thin skinned and could not take the heat. Palin would rather kick back and rake in the bucks having others ghost write her books and speeches, keep those tweets going out so the cash keeps flowing in, and fiddly fart her way through lucrative "reality" shows. Being President would mean a drastic pay cut AND actual accountability. At this point pretending to be a viable candidate coincides with her best intere$t$. Palin might be a simplistically underinformed blank slate, but when it comes down to a bottom line she's not THAT stupid.

[gkhouston]

11. She would like the prestige of saying she's President. Doing the actual job? Hell, no.

She's got no interest in actually doing anything. She's W squared in that respect.

Would she run? Yes. Even if she didn't have a hope in hell of winning, she'd run, simply because of all of the attention she'd get while she was running. It's all about Sarah.

[sadbear]

14. She's already a quitter and loser

Losing again can't be good for her ego. But maybe she'll figure out a way to run, raise a boatload of cash, and then drop out before a single ballot has been cast.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. she peaked too soon, she is on the downhill slide now

thank the gods.

[kentuck]

13. She wouldn't turn it down...

...but she mostly wants to use "it" as an avenue to create more wealth and notoriety for herself. It is secondary to her own selfish purposes. She wants money. She wants material things. She wants attention. If the run for the Presidency helps her get that, then she will stay in the race.

[somone]

16. She wants to be a lazy queen

not president. Too much work and too much reading for her.

[TlalocW]

17. I kind of still think she does want to be president

For various reasons

1. It's an ego thing I - She really doesn't like Obama and is still pissed about losing to him. I think she feels she can actually beat him and settle a score.
2. It's an ego thing II - from everything from being the first woman president to proving wrong the McCain aides who complained about her not listening about how to campaign to proving wrong everyone who says she's not smart enough to be president.
3. It's an ego thing III - she really does believe that the majority of Americans agree with her on how this country needs to be run, and that belief has been amplified by the media casting her in role of king maker this past election.
4. It's an ego thing IV - even if called upon by Fox to provide analysis, she's going to get less and less face time on the air as the election continues, and she can't have that.

TlalocW

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. Don't think so

Not enough money in it and too much work. Plus, if she can't handle a single 4-year term as Alaska's governor, how in the hell could she manage to handle being POTUS for a single day? I would be on edge every day of the week, month, and year that she will be so out of her depth that she will say the wrong thing to the wrong person and cause an international "incident" not to mention worrying about the kind of people she will choose to surround herself with in her administration and what there agenda probably will be.

I know that a lot of people argue about Bush being (s)elected POTUS and how that proves that just about anybody can be elected but I still think that Palin is even more out of her depth than Bush was and that's saying a LOT.
:scared:

[Broderick]

20. I personally don't think so

I think she likes to tempt followers but she likely knows she has no chance and will just use her position to profit.