Palin will "pursue" a presidential bid in 2012 if it's the best way to help everyday people

[sabra]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/21/palin-on-2012-if-its-right-then-we-will-pursue-that/?fbid=VP2LgjjHQ1T#more-100619

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In an interview with "100 Huntley Street," a daily Christian talk show based in Ontario, the former Alaska governor said she "doesn't know politically what is next for me."

But Palin said she will "pursue" a presidential bid in 2012 if she decides it's the best way to help everyday people with their challenges.

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Palin said she and her family have had an "exciting and full ride" since the 2008 presidential campaign ended. Her travels around the country over the last year and a half, she explained, have given her a glimpse of some of the struggles that regular Americans face every day.

"If I can help provide some encouragement, some inspiration, some hope for them to get through their battles and make good decisions and get through a challenge, because that's what we've been able to do, then I am going to stay focused on that," she said in the interview, set to air next week. "Whether that's on a local level in my own little town of Wasilla, or in the Oval Office, if it's right, then we will pursue that."

Palin said her next move depends, in part, on what God has in store for her.

"I do believe that it is a wise thing for us to put our lives in our Creator's hands," she said. "I put my life into God's hands and say, I'm going to do the best that I can every day to bring positive change to people that perhaps need some help. Need opportunity, too."

"That's what I'm going to do, day to day, not necessarily knowing what will bring to my family, to my country, to my life, in the next year, two years, three years down the road," she added.

[liberal N proud]

1. Run Sarah, Run!

It the best thing that could happen.

[gratuitous]

5. Yeah, it would surely bring a smile to my face

And I consider myself "everyday" people.

[Ganja Ninja]

22. You betcha!

I can't wait to see her debate the other GOP candidates. With all of them living in alternate realities her craziness will still stand head and shoulders above the rest.

[polichick]

2. Palin's hatefulness is doing the best that she can "to bring positive change to people"?!? nt

[Raschel]

31. Tbaggers and Palin's new mantra is that they are not hateful.

Saw on Fox news yesterday that tbaggers unite thru hope charity and love. They compared tbaggers to civil rights movement.

What a joke. All they have is negativity, division and hate.

[polichick]

33. Good God, Palin must be completely unable to see and hear her ugly self. nt

[CoffeeCat]

42. Civil rights movement?

No, sorry. The right to be an asshole is not something that we need a bunch of yahoos fighting for
with guns, screaming and random misspelled signs.

:eyes:

[Botany]

3. please run Sarah

"I do believe that it is a wise thing for us to put our lives in our Creator's hands," she said. "I put my life into God's hands and say, I'm going to
do the best that I can every day to bring positive change to people that perhaps need some help. Need opportunity, too."

"That's what I'm going to do, day to day, not necessarily knowing what will bring to my family, to my country, to my life, in the next year, two
years, three years down the road," she added.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Oh, Sarah, you are such a lying fucking b****.

My loathing of this woman knows no bounds.

[driver8]

16. I agree with you 100% -- she is absolutely despicable.

I would love to see her run for President, though.

[louis-t]

6. Another one that "talks to God".

Aw jeez, here we go. Translation: if I make a buttload of money, and people wise up and stop paying me $100,000 per appearance, and the fame clock is at 14:58, and if someone is stupid enough to still want me fer a prezeedent.....

[Contrary1]

45. I don't have a problem if someone wants to "talk to God"...

It's the ones who insist He is talking back to them (ala Dubya) that scare me the most.

[louis-t]

47. Right, these idiots that convince people

they have a direct line that God speaks to them on....

[FSogol]

7. Somebody tell Palin the President's salary is only $400k with only $50k in spending money..

That ought to end her Presidential ambitions.

[Xipe Totec]

8. Trial Buffoon (nt)

[JBoy]

32. I like that!

:thumbsup:

[JBoy]

34. She'd fold at the first hard question.

[CoffeeCat]

9. Holy mother of mercy!

Yeah. Because lying, distorting, name calling and manipulating the
public at large are such holy, reverent and Christ-like behaviors.

:sarcasm:

If she ran, she would win Iowa. I'm just sayin.

[Raschel]

35. Incredible isn't it? The most hateful people waving the Bible.

And, as you said, the most un Christ-like.

[Newest Reality]

10. Yeah, that $12 million she has scooped up

will help a lot of people, I bet.

I hope she runs, too. Not that it should be necessary, but keeping her reputation as a failed Mayor and a failed Governor out front would certainly not be favorable to rational, thinking people, at least. There are many details behind her that they can try to cover-up, but it won't be easy.

[katmondoo]

11. The Presidency doesn't pay enough

She wants to earn somewhere in the millions

[ixion]

20. It's the perks and the power, not the paycheck

that attract people to the office.

[onehandle]

12. She will fly into Iowa to keep the media whores talking and will laugh all the way to the bank.

Literally.

[Lasher]

13. The best way she can help with my challenges is mow my lawn.

If she can do it without screwing up. I can't think of anything else she could do to help me.

[AndyA]

14. Palin's definition of "the best way to help everyday people with their challenges"

"the best way to help everyday people with their challenges" = an increase in Palin's bank account.

Give until it hurts, idiot freepers. And then give some more. Sarah doesn't care about you. She's proven it time and again, but you people are too stupid to figure it out. She proved it when she kept lying about that "bridge to nowhere" story during the campaign. Still don't know that story? Go check it out, she didn't say "thanks, but no thanks" end of story. There's more to it.

Palin proved she doesn't care when she boarded her bus and left people standing in line in the cold to get autographs from her on her book tour.

She dumped on the people of Alaska by abandoning her responsibilities half way through her term as governor. Yes, that was a good thing for the people of Alaska, but not in the way Palin means.

Palin is now a multi-millionaire due to your donations, freepers. She is spending the majority of the SarahPAC money ON HERSELF. Keep giving, idiots. Sarah is enjoying her lavish new lifestyle. She can now look down on all the Joe Six Packs and rejoice that she's better than all of you, she has money.

Idiots.

[Zoeisright]

15. Heh. Ha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

That bitch is the furthest thing from a Christian on the face of this earth. And she doesn't give a flying fuck about 'everyday people'. All she cares about is HERSELF.

Caribou Barbie's theme is 'LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!'

[Raschel]

36. I suggest she care for her family first.

[Renegades of Funk]

God Wants You to Run

and receive no electoral votes!

[mike_c]

17. if she runs, I'll happily donate a little money to keep her in the race...

...ESPECIALLY if she runs on a non-repub ticket! Yes indeed. She's WAY better than Ross Perot for hijacking republican voters! And like a former Green Party candidate that I otherwise have great respect and admiration for, Sarah Palin is way too selfish and ideologically narrow to do ANYTHING for the greater good of the philosophies she supposedly represents. Her joining the 2012 election will be a disaster for the republican party. I just hope she runs independently, so the full force of her destructiveness can unhinge the right wing most effectively.

[ixion]

18. That would be most entertaining.

So please, by all means, run, you mindless twit.

[krispos42]

19. It would keep Obama in office.

So I think this is an excellent idea.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. It's the best way to help every day people FIND THEIR WALLETS...

:eyes:

[Warpy]

23. There's nothing more grotesque than a wildly incompetent person

with the boundless self confidence that comes from being incapable of recognizing one's own limits who is starting to believe his or her own PR.

The only compensation for the rest of us is that the dizzying rise to prominence is usually accompanied by an equally dizzying descent.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. The only thing that will get her to spend more time in Wasilla

is if they give her a crown, a throne, and more than $12 million a year. I think the point of Sarah Palin, for the Republicans, is to make all the other Republicans look selfless by comparison.

[HipChick]

25. God wants her to run,so he can slam the door in her face like he did last time..

[Ian David]

26. I'll donate to her Primary! n/t

[bluedeminredstate]

27. Oh dear God!

"Palin said she and her family have had an "exciting and full ride" since the 2008 presidential campaign ended. Her travels around the country over the last year and a half, she explained, have given her a glimpse of some of the struggles that regular Americans face every day."

That exciting and "full" ride has included travel around the country on private jets, paid either by the organization paying her 100K for her half hour speech or by sarahpac, which out of the 400K it has taken in the first 3 months of the year has given $9500 to candidates and several hundred thousand to "consultants."
I don't see how she is able to glimpse what real Americans are facing when her speeches are closed to the non-paying public and any questions she answers for her paying audience are all pre-screened.
How can a candidate for a presidential run be considered viable when she won't give a press conference, doesn't give interviews to any publication not considered conservative, communicates through facebook and quits her elected position to rake in millions of dollars on the speech circuit?

[Mike Daniels]

38. If she tries to shut out the press during the primaries and election she's done

There are enough thinking people who already don't think this woman should be allowed on the White House lawn.

If she tries to dodge any serious delving into her views and policies the rest of the population that aren't the 33% dead-ender 33 will laugh her out of whatever venue she may be speaking at.

[hedgehog]

28. I'm opening a pool now on which day in October, 2012 she

drops out of the campaign to spend more time with her family.

I have dibs on 10/14/12.

[11 Bravo]

29. She will accumulate a campaign fund of $200 million +, and then decide ...

that God doesn't want her to run, but He DOES insist that she keeps the cash.
Sarah Palin is marginally attractive, cheap-ass grifter. Nothing more.

[onenote]

30. So how come Sarah can't admit that God wanted Obama /Biden to win?

And just as obviously, God wanted McCain/Palin to lose.

Is she questioning God's will?

[CoffeeCat]

41. and that it was God's plan that she lose big time in 08?

Sarah only sees what she wants to see.

[AlinPA]

37. She is definitely running and the media loves her. She will be the whole story for them every

hour of every day when she announces formally that she is running. The media would love to have her and her family in the WH for the bonanza coverage they would provide.

[OHdem10]

39. By 2012, the country will be sick of her.

[LynneSin]

40. I thought Bush Jr. was too much of an idiot to be a contender for President...

but when you have powerful friends on judicial benches & government positions - crazier things have happened.

[LondonReign2]

43. She was misquoted

What she actually said was that she'll run in 2012 if its the best way to help HERSELF.

[divvy]

44. Palin will be the GOP's "Nader" Lets make it happen !

I think Palin is largely unelectable but capable of peeling of a substantial amount of republican votes.

[treestar]

46. Please, God

Tell her that she should go back into obscurity!

[tanyev]

48. She wants to provide HOPE and bring positive CHANGE???

Say it ain't so, Sarah!


:rofl:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

49. Gypsy Rose Palin teasing her audience