Leaked e-mail fuels Palin for president speculation
A leaked e-mail is providing more grist for speculation that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is seriously pondering a run for president in 2012.
In the e-mail, Palin’s husband, Todd Palin, complained to Alaska Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller and Tim Crawford, treasurer for Palin’s SarahPAC political organization, after Miller declined to endorse the possibility of a Palin presidential candidacy.
Sarah Palin had endorsed Miller in his successful Senate Republican nomination fight against incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, and it is clear from the e-mail that Todd Palin expected some loyalty in return.
Miller, asked on Fox News Sunday in September whether Palin was qualified to be president, was non-committal, saying, “I am not going to get distracted by other candidates.”
The Todd Palin e-mail was leaked to themudflats.net, an Alaska website that reports on Palin and other political figures in the state.
Todd Palin complained Sarah had put her reputation on the line for Miller “and yet he can’t answer a simple question.”
“Joe, please explain how this endorsement stuff works, is it to be completely one sided?” he wrote in the e-mail.
Is Palin fundraising a path to 2012?
Is 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin laying the groundwork for a 2012 presidential run?
Some experts reading the tea leaves, or pages from her fundraising reports, think the answer may lie in the numbers.
The former Alaska governor’s political action committee, Sarah PAC, tells the Federal Election Commission it raised more than $865,000 in the last quarter. About half the money came from small donors, people who gave $200 or less.
Sarah PAC raised about $1.3 million in the first half of this year. By this time last year, Palin’s PAC had picked up only $730,000 in contributions.
Republican strategist Ron Bonjean says with that kind of money “all signs point to her (Palin) running for president in 2012.”
Palin’s people aren’t saying anything, but she has not ruled out a White House bid.
Before the campaign finance numbers, the release of Palin’s new “mama grizzlies” video once again fueled speculation that she may indeed be thinking about pursuing a presidential run.
Don’t know what you’re all worrying about. The Monty Python team write her scripts, she’s proof that God has a sense of humour and four years in the White House might just help her to grow, lose the mental acne and get rid of the dumb barbie doll appearance.
I’m looking forward to her campaign, so I am. God knows, we could do with some levity.
Palin says not focused on 2012
The 2012 presidential campaign is not on her radar screen, says 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. But she didn’t exactly shut the door on the the possibility of making a run for the White House during her first interview to promote her book, “Going Rogue: An American Life.”
Palin told TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey that right now it’s all about the 2010 elections.
“I’m concentrating on 2010 and making sure that we have issues to tackle,” Palin said in the interview taped last week and broadcast Monday. “I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in 2012. (Running for president is) not on my radar screen right now.”
The former Alaska governor keeps the theme going in an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters that begins airing Tuesday (ABC excerpts released on Monday).
Asked whether she wants to be president: “That certainly isn’t on my radar screen right now,” Palin tells Walters. “[But] when you consider some of the ordinary turning into extraordinary events that have happened in my life, I am not one to predict what will happen in a few years.”
“My ambition if you will, my desire, is to help our country in whatever role that may be, and I cannot predict what that will be, what doors would be open in the year 2012,” she said.
Palin is popular among many U.S. conservatives and her 12-state campaign-style tour to promote the book has political insiders, once again, speculating about whether she will launch a bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
the incredible benefit Palin is giving to the republican party is the reality that they have to make their way back to Reagan conservative policies.Ordinary people are seeing the liberal media consistently attack her and this is not making her retreat,and they admire her fortitude.They are realizing that this is a value that encourages them in a time when the message from DC is one of servitude and government assistance.THIS IS THE AMERICA THAT I SAW WHEN I VISITED FOR THE FIRST TIME 20 YEARS AGO,AND DECIDED TO MAKE THIS MY COUNTRY.PLEASE DO NOT LOOSE THE SIGHT OF THE FREEDOM THAT IS YOUR HERITAGE!
@bobw111, of course I can see Sarah Palin going toe to toe with Ahmadinejad or Kim over nuclear proliferation, after somebody shows her where their countries are on a map.
She’d be in way over her head if she became president, and her hitching her wagon to the Tea Partiers is nothing but opportunism. That part she’s good at.