Posted on 10/29/2014 7:32:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Not the near future, necessarily, just “the future,” so if you’re taking this as a hint that she’s ready to shock the field by jumping into the 2016 race, readjust your expectations. If Cruz weren’t in the race she could try to fill the tea-party niche; even if she ended up losing, she might pull enough votes to re-establish herself as an electoral force within the party, the way she was circa 2009 as the GOP’s unrivaled grassroots conservative superstar. But Cruz will be in the race, almost certainly, and Palin will just as certainly end up supporting him. Besides, if she wanted to make a splash at the presidential level, the obvious time to run was in 2012. Grassroots righties ended up bouncing from Gingrich to Cain to Santorum in trying to find a “Not Romney” they could live with. Most would have preferred Palin to all of them, and like I say, even if Romney had ended up winning, her clout as the voice of the grassroots would have been fully restored. As it is, Cruz seems to fill that role now more than she does. (Interestingly, her old sparring partner Chris Christie may have made a similar error. If he had run in 2012, he would have been a legit threat to Romney as a more charismatic center-right alternative. Now he’s at risk of getting lost in the shuffle among the Jebs and Rubios and Walkers of the world.)
So if she’s not running for president, what’s she running for? Hard to believe she’d be satisfied with being a backbencher in the House, so it’s either the Senate or the governorship in Alaska. Governor will be tricky, though: The seat won’t be up again until 2018, and even if the incumbent isn’t Republican Sean Parnell, he’s likely to be an independent who was just endorsed by Palin herself. Plus, would Alaskans be willing to reelect her to an office from which she resigned once before? In terms of the Senate, Begich’s seat won’t be up again until 2020, and according to the current polls, it’ll probably be Republican Dan Sullivan’s seat by that point. She’d have to primary the incumbent to win. A better bet would be to primary Lisa Murkowski for her Senate seat, which will be up two years from now. Murkowski famously beat Palin-backed Joe Miller in a write-in campaign in 2010 but also famously lost the primary to Wilson, suggesting that there’s room for a conservative groundswell to knock her off. Murkowski wouldn’t get caught napping by Palin the way she did by Wilson, though; she’d prepare thoroughly, a la Orrin Hatch, Lindsey Graham, Pat Roberts, and other Republican centrists who’ve survived tea-party challenges. Her approval rating, if you believe lefty pollster PPP, is a respectable 46/39. Could Palin raise enough dough nationally from excited conservatives to overcome the huge support Murky would get from the GOP establishment? It’d be a hell of a race.
I hope it doesn’t happen, though. And the reason I hope it doesn’t happen is because there’s another Senate race out there on the horizon in 2016 which, let’s face it, the entire political world wants to see Palin involved in. There’s enormous tea-party bitterness towards the incumbent and, wouldn’t you know it, Palin just so happens to be a state resident, so she’d be eligible to run. We all want it to happen so let’s cross our fingers and hope: McCain versus Palin. Duel to the death.
Update: Oops, had a case of brain freeze above. I wrote “Joe Wilson” but meant “Joe Miller” when referencing Murkowski’s 2010 opponent. Fixed now.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
I don’t believe she’s running for anything right now. I think she is saying IF something comes up she might consider running for it. I think she’s doing a bang up job hustling for the Conservative movement right now, and personally hope she stays with it.
I don’t think she could win, but she sure would drive liberals into seizures so for that alone I hope she does run. Who knows, maybe she can win.
Maybe she means by “running for office in the future” to mean for re-election after she’s first been drafted by some political party with resources to run her for President and win in a landslide.
Shucks, why not the Democrat Party? The Republican Party doesn’t really support the planks that support Republicans any longer.
Matter of fact, SP is one of the very few candidates that fills the bill on every single Republican platform plank.
But run as a Democrat, win in a landslide, then return the Democrat Party to it’s pre-Marxist platform, which really was not that bad. Reagan was a Democrat before running as a Republican.
Again, adherence to platform planks is no longer necessary to run and win as a Republican.
USIP.
It’s bound to be a secret code for something important. Everyone who digs what USIP means in the context you used it remains silent.
(Shhhhh....
wonder what it really means...)
UKIP is the United Kingdom Independent Party, which I rearranged as USIP, the United States Independent Party. She isn’t going to run as a Democrat.
SARAH PALIN HOPES TO RUN FOR OFFICE AGAIN: WOULD 'BUG THE CRAP' OUT OF LIBERALS
Nobody has ever exposed the mainstream media for who they truly are, including their double standards and ugly biases, than Palin. In addition, she has also allowed opportunistic and jealous Republicans--especially insecure male losers who may have unresolved issues from their past that they can't seem to let go--who want nothing more in life than to be patted on the head by the liberal mainstream media members to show their true colors. Too often, those aforementioned Republicans have criticized Palin more viciously than any Democrat, as if they are desperately trying to make up for their deficiencies. For just that alone, she has been invaluable and indispensable.
“Supporters are dying off fast.” WTH does that mean?
Nothing sinister. Just...that...We’re getting a little bit older every day.
Show me someone who is getting younger, so I can alert science.
Other than Benjamin Button...
...just my lovely wife asleep in there.
She laid it out, she will not sit by while ‘innocents’ are attacked.
She’s going to go ground game to elevate one Texan above another Texan. She might end up VP, but more likely in an ‘innocents’ admin.
USIP . . . reminds me of P.J. O’Rourke’s joke about Socialism being Marxism sold by the drink.
Which I assume means she wouldn't be eligible for the Alaska run.
If you're talking about the presidency, far from seizures I think the liberals would sit back, pop some popcorn, and watch the other GOP candidate rip her to pieces.
reelect her to an office from which she resigned once before?
She stated that she resigned because basically the dems were hitting her with so many lawsuits she didn’t have time to govern.
Where does it say she will run for governor of Alaska?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.