Yes, Sarah Palin Is Running for President, Or Getting Ready to Anyway
By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Asked if her new political action committee was an early signal that she is running for president in 2012, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin replied: "No, not at all, not at all, no. It's helpful to have a PAC so that when I'm invited to things even like to speak at the Lincoln Day dinner in Fairbanks, to have a PAC pay for that instead of have the state pay for that because that could be considered quasi-political." Uh-huh. She's being something less than completely honest here, but we can forgive her.
Basically, ignore her first sentence ("No, not at all, not at all, no.") Everything else she said is true, as I blogged here yesterday. That's the reason pols form leadership PACs (and that's what she has here): So they can travel around state and country campaigning for their party colleagues. We can also expect her to use some of the PAC money for political contributions (and as I said yesterday, the clearest sign that she's running for president would be PAC contributions to state legislators in places like Iowa and New Hampshire).
But politicians—especially rising star pols like Palin—don't raise money and make national appearances out of the goodness of their hearts; they don't do it because of unselfish dedication to party; and they don't do it because they want to raise their state's profile. She may not be running for president yet (though the FEC seems to think she is), but she's positioning herself to run in a couple of years.
Like I said, we can forgive her for being less than honest here: No pol smart enough to run for president (admittedly not a high bar) would openly declare such interest this far out.
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Unemployed WASP
I left the Republican Party, became an independent, and voted for Chuck Baldwin. I'm not coming back. The Republican party is a party of hypocrites, liars, and elitsts who exploit. The Democrat party is a party of co-dependent Marxist modern liberal liars, cheats, and immoral people of the worst sort who also exploit. Both parties have turned my state into a crime ridden mess of underachievers, high school dropout criminals, drugged out low achievers, etc...
You can have them both.
Palin for President
I hope she does run for President of the United States. I wish Palin and McCain were in charge now. I'd feel safer and that the country was in good hands. Obama is all ready revealing what an inexperienced and naive politician he is with his "thoughtful" nominations for key posts including lobbyists. What is most disturbing is even after it is revealed how dishonest they are, he still insists that they be approved. The Sec. of the Treasury does not like math and likes to deal in ballpark figures. What a treasure he will be for the American people. His stimulus package was written by the Democrats with Pelosi doing most of the writing so it's more free gifts for constituents than creating jobs for everyone. I predict in 2012 people will be begging her to save them and send Obama packing back to Chicago politics.
Go Away Know Nothing Palin
I'm soooooo tired of Sarah Palin. She is not smart enough to be President of the USA. She's just out there. I wish she'd take care of her special needs child and get her other children's lives in order instead of trying to run the free world, something she knows NOTHING about. If she runs, I'll be voting for Obama, AGAIN!!!!!!!! She is too far to the right and she is not diverse enough, like Obama is and his family. We live in a diverse America and Palin doesn't represent that. We don't want her type back in the White House to mess up whatever the Obama administration is trying to do. I think we shouldn't be switching leaders and parties so much and give Obama a chance, his full 8 years to undo what Republicans are trying to put back in place that got us in the Hell hole that we are currently in today. If I were Palin, I'd be ashamed to run. Her job is in Alaska. I cannot see her and her unmanaged household in the White House. We don't want her there. She wants to be elected on people liking her and that's not enough. We love Obama, but he has the brains, too. It looks like repubs are just sticking Palin out there but she doesn't have the chops. No one will be as excited about her as they are about President Obama, not here in the USA or worldwide. It just simply is NOT the same. No thanks, Sarah, I'll pass. I'm going to do us all a favor and vote for President Obama again.
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