Posted on 09/17/2010 2:56:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin may be edging closer to a 2012 presidential run, telling Fox News "I would give it a shot" if the American people think she's "the one."
The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee was in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday for the Reagan Dinner, a big GOP fundraiser in the heart of water-testing country for presidential candidates.
Palin has remained coy about her ambitions, but she elaborated a bit in an interview with Fox News, attaching several conditions to the possibility of a 2012 presidential run.
"If the American people were to be ready for someone who is willing to shake it up, and willing to get back to time-tested truths, and help lead our country towards a more prosperous and safe future and if they happen to think I was the one, if it were best for my family and for our country, of course I would give it a shot," she said.
"But I'm not saying that it's me. I know I can certainly make a difference without having a title. I'm having a good time doing exactly that right now."
Palin, a Fox News contributor and best-selling author since leaving the governor's mansion last year, has become one of the Tea Party movement's biggest allies. She's also thrown her clout around in the GOP primary season with a string of endorsements.
She said in February that she'd be "willing" to take on President Obama in two years, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday he suspects she's testing the water.
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Palin/Rove 2012.
Let’s make the liberal hate machine’s head explode
........Let’s add Palin/Boulton to see exploding heads.
This is great news! Answered prayers!!!
Steve Schmidt works for Romney, so I don’t think that’s an issue.
Ronald Reagan was a "retread". And besides, Sarah wasn't on the top of the ticket. McCain is the real "retread" here.
So are most of the other likely contenders for 2012.
Yes, 1980 again! Go Sarah Go!
Tokyo Rove?
GTFO! NOW!
Rove is the Left’s new favorite RINO traitor, now.
They love him even more than Charlie Crist, Paul O’Neill, Brent Scowcroft, Colin Powell, and Scotty McClellen combined.
Honestly, I think Palin is more interested in influence outside of government.
She will quit the primary race for the same reason she quit the governorship, and then she’ll use the move to play kingmaker. That’s my prediction.
Don't miss the forest for the trees, my friend. Sarah Palin has been on a trajectory that leads straight to the White House since she first stepped foot on the national stage.
She's our star quarterback, and the Super Bowl is coming in two years. It would be nuts for us to put anyone but our very best on the field, on that day.
Sarah will be the one.
I think that anyone with a modicum of political smarts and observational skills figured out that she's running a long time ago.
I doubt if there's any question about that in presidential campaign circles.
This is big news, she says ‘maybe’ again. Each ‘maybe’ is one step closer.
Hell just for a decent tastefull fashion change in the WH I would vote for her.
Her fashion sense rocks.
Don't you believe it. The media and the left have thrown everything they could think of at Sarah, but she's more popular than ever.
Why do you think her endorsements carry so much weight?
All the media have done, is to make Sarah stronger than she ever was. By 2012, they'll have nothing left to throw at her, and everything they do try, will be shopworn and stale.
I'd be very surprised if she didn't decimate her opponent in any fair debate.
Reagan was absolutely savaged by the media.
sweet find
She's already been run through the left-wing meat grinder and emerged more powerful than ever. The only reason she left the Governorship of Alaska was because she couldn't use state monies to defend herself from all the scurrilous lawsuits the moonbats were filing against her. It was bankrupting her family, and stopping her from doing her job.
That won't be the case during the 2012 primary. The left would have to throw something a lot bigger than slimy lawsuits at her, to knock her out of the race.
Indeed. The MSM blamed Reagan for AIDS, homelessness, confrontation with the Soviets and out-of-control deficits. For starters.
Back then, the MSM even had some modicum of journalism ethics to be balanced and truthful. They'll be twenty times worse with Sarah because they've long since jettisoned any pretense to objectivity.
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