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Palin Opens Up About Possible 2012 Run, Says She's Willing to 'Give It a Shot'
Fox News ^ | September 17, 2010

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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To: onyx

Since it got knocked off my ping first page and I never read the article in the first place I thought that may have happened to other FReepers on the list. This article is the first that I’ve read this.

I shall never use the ping list again. (Although I was told that I could.) Sorry.


281 posted on 09/19/2010 1:42:15 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx; Josh Painter
You forgot to call her a "tea bagger" Keith.

I have no intention of calling her a "tea bagger" and my name isn't Keith.

282 posted on 09/19/2010 2:07:40 PM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nobody else is stepping it up at this point. DeMint has just started, but Sarah is the only Republican leader of the Revolution at this point. The Republican establishment are still acting like it’s 2005. I’ll vote for her in 2012, no doubt in my mind. Paul Ryan or DeMint would make a good VP.


283 posted on 09/19/2010 2:33:35 PM PDT by Force of Truth (Yes political conservatives are libertarians. They want to have their rights and eat them too.)
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To: True Grit
Karl Rove and the RNC will go bananas.

Karl Rove is already fit to be tied. The Republicans are spend-crazy as always. G. W. Bush outspent every POTUS in history, and the Republicans didn't lift a damn finger to stop him.

284 posted on 09/19/2010 2:36:08 PM PDT by Force of Truth (Yes political conservatives are libertarians. They want to have their rights and eat them too.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If she is the best the GOP can come up with in 2012 I would vote for her. I think McCain really hurt their chances. Finding a good running mate that won’t slow her down will be tough.


285 posted on 09/19/2010 3:30:48 PM PDT by 3rdcoastislander
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To: 3rdcoastislander

John Bolton for foreign policy, Fred as her “Cheney”, Haley Barbour for his contacts, fundraising and experience, Bobby Jindal for obvious reasons or a military officer.


286 posted on 09/19/2010 3:35:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I like Fred he doesn’t walk around like a robot that needs to be oiled, so that’s a plus.


287 posted on 09/19/2010 3:38:11 PM PDT by 3rdcoastislander
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To: EveningStar; mkjessup
RE :”The Wasilla Wonder Woman is making millions right now. She has to at least say that she might run or she risks having her gravy train come to a halt.

You mean she is just playing with these folks hearts ?? I think they have now reached a critical point where they can't imagine a life without President Sarah grizzly. How long can she lead them on ??? Till 2012 election day? Someone will need to talk them down slowly. How about if she announced cancer (then) like that guy from NYC did? Would they buy that?

288 posted on 09/19/2010 6:43:36 PM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looking at the comments at Fox News, it looks like some on the Left are already rabid about this.


289 posted on 09/19/2010 8:41:05 PM PDT by Immerito
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To: Darren McCarty

According to you Palin should have spent 2 years being continually investigated on bogus, state-paid ‘ethics charges’. She would have ended up several million dollars in debt and she wouldn’t have been able to govern.

Well guess what. The Governorship isn’t a suicide pact.

Unfortunately for you and the other Dem shills on FR, Palin realized that and she cut the Gordian knot.

She put another Conservative in charge of Alaska, and since then she has gone countrywide to destroy the RINO power base.

Instead of this continuous whine about the Governorship, how about looking at the sea-change she has effected in your country? None of that would have happened if she had been in court for the last two years.


290 posted on 09/20/2010 5:08:16 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mixed feelings about Sarah......though if she were the nominee, I’d definitely get behind her.


291 posted on 09/20/2010 6:47:29 AM PDT by cookcounty (Dec 31st is coming: .....Stop Obama's Midnight Jack-Up!)
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To: Michael Barnes

me too. At least I can say I didn’t donate to that RINO Brown from Mass..


292 posted on 09/20/2010 7:32:07 AM PDT by max americana
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To: EveningStar

” She has to at least say that she might run or she risks having her gravy train come to a halt. “

Correct. It would kill book sales.


293 posted on 09/20/2010 5:27:32 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: agere_contra; Darren McCarty
...she cut the Gordian knot and ran...

Fixed.

294 posted on 09/20/2010 6:10:49 PM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: Windflier

>My point was that if you listen to what others are saying out beyond the small circle of intimates you referred to, you can get a better sense of how much support Palin has among the general public. <

I have been looking and see some VERY good signs that a lot of people are Anti Obama now. That is a great thing. But we need to put the arm on the GOP to put up a REAL conservative.
many times people don’t vote for a candidate, but rather AGAINST a candidate. I think that there will be a lot of voting against Obama. We just need a real conservative to run against him, unlike McCain.

For too long the GOP has thought or at least acted as if they needed to run liberal - now it is time for them to get their act together and put up some strong conservatives and run with them in earnest


295 posted on 09/21/2010 2:49:34 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: ByDesign

As II just said to someone else, for too long the RNC has put up liberals because they think or at least act as if a real conservative can not win.

I am with you on all you said. But I think we need to make sure that the RNC knows at this point that they need to put REAL conservatives up again and stand by them. That is what the people want, not RINO’s ..

They would be amazed at the results, but they seem to be very far removed from what real americans want by the numbers


296 posted on 09/21/2010 2:51:43 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative; OrangeHoof
RE :”If she is the best candidate.. vote for her and let the chips fall where they may.

IF??? You have posted many times that she is the only candidate. If she announces she is not running sometime next year, do you think that would be acceptable? (short a personal serious illness like cancer)? Wouldn't that be letting the country down?

297 posted on 09/23/2010 11:25:16 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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