Is she running for president? Seeking a coffee summit with Hillary Clinton? Or just selling her book?
The only clear answer about Sarah Palin’s intentions is that the questions are drawing lots and lots of U.S. media attention.
This week, the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor is on the cover of Newsweek magazine. She’s also going on-air for separate interviews with TV’s Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters of ABC News.
It’s all about promoting her new memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” which goes on sale Tuesday. But the notion that she also might be testing the waters for a 2012 presidential run is what’s drawing the serious attention.
Supporters liken her to a populist 21st century Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater. But not all the coverage is as she’d like it. 
Newsweek, which pictures her on its cover as an attractive young woman in running shorts, scoffs at the idea of a Palin 2012 presidential campaign.
“Her brand of take-no-prisoners partisanship is not good for the Republicans in the long run and not good for the country,” Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham told MSNBC.
“When you have a kind of ‘death panel’ ideology, where you make pronouncements that are factually untenable and tend to inflame the conversation … that’s not good for governance.”
She got a warmer reception from another woman of the campaign trail, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, whom Palin thinks she might like to meet over coffee.
“I absolutely would look forward to having coffee. I’ve never met her. And I think it would be, you know, very interesting to sit down and talk with her,” Clinton, now U.S. secretary of state, said over the weekend. 
But the last word is likely to be Palin’s. Her book promotion is expected to draw huge crowds across the country. And while a Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that 60 percent of Americans don’t think she’s qualified to be president, a similar percentage of Republicans say she is.
Photo Credits: Reuters/Nathaniel Wilder (Palin); Reuters/Jason Reed (White House); Reuters/Jonathan Ernst (Clinton)
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getplaning. Once again you can’t see the forest for the trees.
That’s fine in your one dimenional world. I understand you aren’t smarter than a 5th grader.
NY 23. I won’t repeat what the electorate is saying behind your squeaker of a win for your liberal liar (I do not support the public option…then the day after the election says he is for the public option…yeah, typical liberal…). He beats someone who was in the election for only 3 weeks, was down 15 points and now….as the votes are still being counted is within 2 points. Yeah, go ahead and keep your head in the sand. You know your side is on a sinking ship. I makes me smile at your ignorance.
This is all what makes this article interesting. Palin is a real threat to this administration and congress. If she were to run, she would likely beat Obama because Americans are fleeing from his socialist agenda. The independents are saying they made a mistake to elect this bunch. They are destroying this country as we speak. Yes, destroy…
- Posted by TCNY-23? Last time I checked, it was still the loss of another Republican House seat. And Bill Owens, the new Democrat, cast the vote that allowed the House healthcare bill to pass. So what, exactly, is your point? Are you still trying to claim victory here, too?
You can always have the last word…but you are having a hard time with the truth.
- Posted by getplaninggetplaning. You are a choirboy…chuckle.
I also chuckle because I don’t lie. I just present the truth and the majority of Americans agree with me. Your diatribes are nothing but chatter that don’t answer anything, because you have no rational argument to back up the fact that your guys in power are reeling. The independents are fleeing in droves now that they understand the mistake they made helping elect someone who espouses your valueless ideals.
The facts don’t back up your baseless claims. It makes me smile watching your airplane go down in flames.
BTW, you aren’t smarter than a 5th grader.
Oh..You have nothing to say about NY 23? That says volumes. Again, everything I have said has and is coming true.
Also, concerning the article. What has you and your progressive friends in such a tizzy is that Palin would beat Obama if she decided to run for president. The interesting part is that the left knows it and in your heart, you know it too.
- Posted by TCTC, I merely addressed your accusations, and now you accuse me of changing the subject. Every time you are confronted with your lies, you simply lie again and claim victory. A strategy you learned, no doubt, from years of listening to Limbaugh. The only one on this blog who buys your nonsense is your fellow blog-droid brian lee.
- Posted by getplaning[...] Is she running for president? Seeking a coffee summit with Hillary Clinton? Or just selling her book? The only clear answer about Sarah Palin’s intentions is that the questions are drawing lots and lots of U.S. media attention. Read more at http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/1 1/16/the-first-draft-palin-for-president / [...]
- Posted by The First Draft: Palin for President? | News Carrier!brian lee. Your comparison of our “friend” to Ward Churchill hit the nail on the head. Good job.
I chuckle at him because everything we have said has either come true or is coming true. I mean, Sarah Palin is a real threat to his liberal way of life. When it comes to the liberal mindset, they shoot the messenger rather than the message. That makes sense because liberals have no rational or valid argument when it comes to the truth. They will lie, cheat and steal in order to destroy anyone who gets in their way. Sarah Palin gets in their way. It it quite amusing to watch.
In addition, it’s like this. Someone on the left will say 80 percent of the people want the public option. However, they leave out the fact the 55 percent don’t want any health care plan mucking through congress. So they are full of half truths. Which is what liberals do to issues.
Sarah Palin and her message is one which amplifies the fact we are still the greatest nation in the world.
- Posted by TCTC,it is so unbelievable how stereotype getplaning is, a typical liberal clone.He is symbolic of the drones that follow and are mesmerized by the likes of Ward Churchill. But when they come up against a determined free thinker like Palin they become completely unhinged.I can imagine getplaning looking though is old stuff looking for his comfort blanket seeing all attention she is getting.Like you i don,t think she will run for president but what is more significant is that she is highlighting the fact that there has to be a significant move back to the Reagan style of conservatism for the republican party to regain support.Because Obama has let the American people see the reality of real leftist socialism, with it,s twin sister unemployment there will be a major swing back to the centralist right position.Even now the democrats are starting are having premonitions of the potential disaster that 2010 is going to bring for them,exactly what you have been forecasting TC.
- Posted by brian leeNice try getplaning. Judging from your personal diatribes that don’t even discuss the related article, that is patently false. But you are allowed to get your digs in without a trace of the discussion at hand.
So, the left takes care of the left….I understand that.
Once again, your are giving yourself too much credit. Just remember, you might admire yourself in the mirror, but even then you hold the minority viewpoint.
BTW, NY23 is becoming quite interesting. Once again, the election proves again (even if Hoffman still loses), that the majority of American people are angry at the direction the current bunch in power is trying to take this country. After a year in office, Obama has nothing to show for his efforts except a high unemployment rate (10.2 percent and growing), a 1.4 trillion deficit and growing, an agenda that is falling apart all around him…Oh, I will stop there for now.
Oh, did I say I agree with you that Sarah Palin probably won’t run for president in 2012? Although she hasn’t revealed her intentions, I am not in the camp who thinks she will. Could be wrong though and that’s okay too. I have other choices who I would like to see as president in 2012 when Obama is finishing is first and only term as president.
- Posted by TCThanks, TC. While it’s true that my posts make yours and brian’s seem like they were written by fifth graders, I assure you I am not a paid blogger. I find it amusing that you would make such a charge, and for a moment I suspected it may be you who is the paid blogger. Especially since you post twice as many comments as the moderators actually allow to appear. But reading your posts, clearly no one, not even Pajamas Media, would pay for material like yours.
Reuters has a comments policy, that they “publish everything that advances the post directly, or contains relevant tangenital information.” It’s not that complicated. If your comments are deleted, it’s because they don’t meet this simple criteria, that’s all. But like a typical conservative, you whine and complain and act like a victim of the Conspiracy of Evil Liberal Reuters Moderators.
- Posted by getplaningcharles bowen,your creditability flew out of the window when you started questioning the tenacity of Bush and Palin.This subject is a no brainer when we have the appeaser in general bowing and cringing all over the world.You should stay clear of a comparison on this particular aspect of policy with a dither tag attached to the chosen one!
- Posted by brian lee