Posted on 04/28/2014 6:53:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton is running for President. Oh, sure, she hasn’t announced it yet. But all the signs are there: speeches to certain groups, third-party money-raising apparatus, little hints dropped by Bill Clinton on Twitter. Hillary can play coy, but no one in the Democrat Party believes for a second that she did not walk out of the offices of Secretary of State and right into a campaign meeting.
But what about the other big female name in American politics? No, not Elizabeth Warren. She is going to run with Hillary for the VP job.
We’re talking about Sarah Palin.
Ever since John McCain plucked Palin from Alaskan obscurity and thrust her into the spotlight of big league presidential politics, Palin has been the darling of the Tea Party.
Every time Palin turns up at some convention or another or even just on television or radio, speculation starts about whether or not she is running for some office again.
And she always teases it.
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When asked if she is running for (fill in the blank), Palin’s usual answer is couched as “considering it because people have asked me to.”
She has said that she would “never say never” to a presidential run. It depends on what “Americans really, really want in a candidate.”
And now Sarah Palin has flashed that bit of political skin once again, this time before the NRA. Saturday during a Stand And Fight rally at Lucas Oil Stadium, Palin had choice words for anyone who thought guns should not be allowed in schools (“stupid on steroids”).
She threw red meat to people who still believe that kids are not allowed to pray in schools — despite that myth having long been busted (students are free to pray in schools, only administrators may not lead prayer during school hours.)
She said that all liberals are hypocrites.
But her most incendiary line of the evening was about terrorists.
“If I were in charge,” Palin said, inserting a pregnant pause for applause from the crowd, “[our enemies] would know that water boarding is how we’d baptize terrorists.”
It was shocking enough on the surface of it, with it’s linking of water boarding torture with the Christian practice of baptism. But that pause was what she was masterfully playing.
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Sarah Palin likes to tease the idea of running for office. She likes to hear the applause of those people who buy tickets and fill seats and like her Facebook rants. But Sarah Palin will never run. Because if Sarah Palin actually put herself on the line again, she would have to answer questions, and not just the “gotcha” questions about policy and what newspapers she reads.
She would be outside the bubble of her fans, and Americans who find her statements like this to be offensive would want her to be called out by a responsible press.
It’s a pretty nifty career setup. Wink and hint that you might be, possibly, depending on what “the people” want, thinking about maybe running for something. Then collect speaking fees, write another book, and head back to the safety of a fan club.
Contrast this with Bobby Jindal, a Republican who is making no bones about the fact that he is running. A man who breaks protocol to speak out against the President to further his own political aspirations. Whether you like his approach or not is subjective. He may be preaching to the choir, but he isn’t hiding behind it.
Andrew Kaczynski ✔ @BuzzFeedAndrew
Being forced to transcribe Sarah Palin speeches
is how we baptize journalists.
3:15 PM - 28 Apr 2014
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Palin did not run in 2012.
That is the thing. She generated a lot of enthusiasm, but never entered the race. She bowed out at the last moment.
I understand she has a higher level of proof to generate the same level of enthusiasm in 2016 now because of that, but I firmly believe she is still 100% valid as a candidate.
I don’t know what Sarah is going to do, nor Hillary, for that matter, but I have my doubts about either one of them running for president in 2016. Hillary isn’t aging well, and she entered into the old age process with ugly baggage that gets double ugly the older she gets. Her looks, never easy to look at, aside, Hillary isn’t well. She has always been sharp enough to lie, connive, obfuscate and manipulate to avoid the truth, but her mind is slipping.
Only the 4th post!! Well done! The famous ‘I like Sarah but’ jazz!!!! You left out the Sarah hating toads usual tho: she is to skinny...she suckered everyone for money last time...she quit as Gov. of Alaska...she is just a TV show personality etc. etc. etc.
Have you ever listened to Obama speak?
I get that too, but more than that... just like when a black man goes off the reserve, any women that is not a democrat/liberal gets destroyed by the MSM.
Rent free, I tell ya, rent free!
Yeah, too bad that Sarah’s voice handicapped her election chances to become Governor of Alaska in a landslide election.... such a shame that her voice was the deciding factor.
Wait. I thought Palin was yesterday’s news, and that nobody cares about her anymore.
LOL! Apparently nobody told Mike Tuttle, deadbeat "writer", that these days the press lives up Mr. Obama's backside.
"Responsible"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
And then there are those whose mental hard-drives are infected with the progressive "Get Palin!" Trojan virus, aka the PDS virus.
Most infections are the result of watching too much network TeeVee, or reading too many Progressive "news"papaers.
media live in a bubble, not the other way around
Big deal. If Palin runs, she run; if she doesn’t, she doesn’t. Why should it matter to her haters. Those who love her wish her to run, but we understand that the timing may not be right for her. It sometimes require America to suffer great hardship to realize what matters, not someone’s voice or what she does during her spare time but what she’s done in the past as Governor. Based on her record, she will be an amazing President. She will clean house and bring budget under control
This looks like a good place to say that I love Ted Cruz, but I don’t think he can win the presidency because of his voice. There is something irritating about his manner of speaking. He sounds like a wuss, but I like what he says as long as he uses only a sentence or two. After that I’m snoozing.
Its all about timing. If majority of the country still think we’re doing okay or that the economy is improving but slowly, then she shouldn’t run. Americans require a wake up call to realize the lies we’ve been told by both gop/dem establishment
If she had Thatcher’s voice and approach, she’d be a shoe-in for pres. No one could beat her.
IMHO.
Sarah Palin is making a fortune as the conservative mascot. She knows that limitations would be placed on her as POTUS, as well as a big pay cut.
If I were lucky enough to be in her position, I’d never even consider another public office.
The point is made every time a Palin fan lobs another insult at someone simply for saying she wouldn’t be a good candidate. It doesn’t take a genius to see that she has a small, rabid following who are especially nasty and tolerate no criticism of her, no matter how small.
Well that was mature. Wonder why Sarah can't win with fans like you. lol
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