Fox News reports: Palin 'Would Be Willing' to Take On Obama in 2012
Sarah Palin has President Obama in her sights, telling FoxNews.com she "would be willing" to challenge him in the 2012 presidential race.
The former Alaska governor
, in an interview Saturday on the sidelines of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, said President Obama's "lack of experience" has held him back his first year in office and that she would put her credentials up against his any day.
From The Huffington Post, August 8, 2010:
TLC President Eileen O'Neill told reporters at the annual Television Correspondents Association press tour that "Sarah Palin's Alaska," a TLC reality series that was announced in March, will debut on November 14 at 9 PM.
Anchorage Daily News, July 29th, 2010
The managers of Sarah Palin's new legal defense fund are asking supporters to generate more donations to help the former Alaska governor pay off a "tremendous" load of legal debts.
Palin...cited the toll of multiple "frivolous" ethics complaints as one of the reasons for her resignation as governor last year. She has said she racked up at least $500,000 in legal fees.
BTW, again, according to the The Anchorage Daily News, her need may have arisen from the fact that she had to pay back most of the $$ she had already raised because of ethics violations:
the legal defense fund violated state law because it "constituted using public office to obtain private benefit."
NEW YORK: Sarah Palin's decision to quit her political role seems to be now making big financial sense. According to sources, Palin and her daughter, Bristol, earned an eye-popping $100,000 for their new In Touch Weekly cover, reports the New York Post. By working for just eight hours' at her own home, Palin earned nearly as much as her $125,000-a-year salary as Alaska governor. -- Economic Times
Sarah Palin joins Fox News as a contributor in multi-year deal
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Palin upset by "sexist" Newsweek cover.
For the second time since Sarah Palin stepped into the national political spotlight, a photo of the former Republican vice-presidential candidate featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine is sparking controversy. Palin herself blasted the "out-of-context" cover as "sexist"
"Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans."
-- MSNBC
Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, the former Massachusetts governor [Mitt Romney] just beats out Sarah Palin in the preferred-nominee stakes (26%-21%), with Mike Huckabee coming in third (19%), followed by Newt Gingrich (14%).
— Newsweek
Palin may not have resigned in order to run for President
Ms. Palin had returned to her home state from the presidential campaign as one of the hopeful prospects in her struggling party, even if she had much to prove to her detractors...
But interviews in Alaska and in Washington show that a seemingly relentless string of professional and personal troubles quickly put that goal out of reach...
She was met at the Capitol by a growing pile of ethics complaints filed by opponents that, under Alaska state law, had to be investigated...
By all accounts, Ms. Palin became consumed with the complaints, no matter how small-bore — which many were — or where they came from...
In early June, when Ms. Palin visited Mr. Malek [ a longtime Republican kingmaker] in Washington, "My sense was she was very unhappy with the multiple tugs, pulls and pressures in her life, that her family life was not even close to what she regarded as acceptable," he said, adding, "she just had a dissatisfaction with the way the job had developed."
...When she announced on July 3 that she was leaving the job, the national political establishment speculated that it was part of a scheme to position herself for a White House run.
Ms. Palin scoffed at the notion. "There's no ulterior motive," she said in the interview. She said the lieutenant governor who will succeed her on July 26, Sean R. Parnell, will pursue "the same agenda as mine — minus the distractions."
— NY Times article
"On "The Early Show Saturday Edition," [Ed] Rollins, who headed up former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's 2008 White House run, told co-anchor Erica Hill that Palin's Friday news conference "raised a lot more questions than she answered. Usually, at a press conference, you answer questions. I think the bottom line is you saw a shooting star come crashing to Earth.
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-- CBS News
"If Palin's speech proves memorable, it will be in the way that Richard Nixon's 1962 "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more" speech endures. Palin's resignation speech was a strange hodgepodge, a mix of self-congratulatory horn-tooting, sound-bites and catch-phrases, unexplained political shorthand references ("that liberal 9th circuit!") and awkward ad-libs that left the impression of someone of such towering hubris that she did not think something so mundane as practicing the speech was necessary. "
-- Palin Quitting Shows She's No Ronald Reagan" from US News and World Report
July 04, 2009
Evening News anchor Katie Couric was honored for her "extraordinary, persistent and detailed multi-part interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin" which judges called a "defining moment in the 2008 presidential campaign."
She was given the award for Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign.
March, 2009:
Bristol Palin, 18, and Levi Johnston have split, reports People.com. The daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Johnston have a 2-month-old son, Tripp.
It's a boy! Youngsters Levi and Bristol, still not married, have a baby boy, Tripp
OMG! Gov. Sarah Palin applauded the decision by the U.S. Department of the Interior that will allow an individual to carry a concealed weapon in national parks and wildlife refuges, according to Capital Weekly
Palin was picked as a runner up for Time's Person of the Year according to The LA Times.
Fully two thirds of Republicans, including Republican-leaning independents, want Palin to run for president in 2012, twice as many as back Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has already made one post-election visit to Iowa, and about 20 points ahead of former Speaker Newt Gingrich.
From Politico.com
U.S. declares beluga whale endangered; Palin objects Reported in USA Today
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose reformer image took a hit in a report concluding she abused her powers to settle a family score,
has skirted state ethics rules before for personal benefit and used her office
to help friends and supporters, according to an Associated Press review of records.
Gov. Sarah Palin's rural adviser resigned Monday amid criticism of the governor's record on hiring Alaska Natives.
From the Associated Press
According to the Los Angeles Times, Todd Palin was a fixture in the governor's office, spending about half of his time there. [Todd Palin] attended Cabinet meetings that are supposed to be closed to the public
Gov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to try to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, an investigation by the Alaska Legislature has concluded.
reports the NY Times
On a day when the Dow plummeted 679 points to close below the 8,600 mark for the first time since 2003, Sarah Palin didn't mention the tanking market at a rally here. Instead, she devoted the better part of her remarks to questioning Barack Obama's relationship with 1960s radical Bill Ayers.
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Biden-Palin debate drew almost 70 million TV viewers says LA Times
Palin didn't report thousands of dollars in state travel reimbursements that she collected while living at home last year, according to her tax return for 2007.
reports NPR
CBS Poll:Uncommitted Voters Say 2 to 1 that Biden Won
45% of all female likely voters surveyed have a negative opinion of Palin in a Time article
Democrats eat into McCain's lead as Palin's halo starts to slipThe U.K. Independent
NOW endorses Obama "Although it is very unusual for us to endorse in a presidential election, this is an unprecedented candidate and an unprecedented time for our country."
Another lie: Palin never went to Iraq, reports the U.K. Guardian
Palin says Alaska supplies 20 percent of U.S. energy. Not true. Not even close.Fact Check
"Throughout her political career, [Palin] has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance" From MSNBC
Alaskan anti-Palin rally >