via Breitbart.tv. Many are billing this as “Sarah Palin won’t run if she’s a distraction”, and while that’s true, that’s not the part that got my attention. I mean we’ve heard her say that before. But in an interview with Sean Hannity today, she basically told the GOP establishment how to prevent her from running as a presidential candidate in 2012:

But if within the machine itself, the GOP machine feels threatened – some of those in the hierarchy – if they start attacking my potential candidacy and trying to erode a base of support and discredit and invalidate me and my record and my policies, then I will know that I would probably do more harm that good to the cause…and if I get in the way of that cause, I don’t need a title, I don’t need a position, I don’t need to run for office in order to affect positive change in order to reach the goals we have here in the cause.

Facepalm. Sarah Palin has just given a roadmap to those in the establishment who hate her, to keep her in the private sector. Maybe she doesn’t mind that, but if she has any aspirations of candidacy in 2012 at all, unless she’s lying, then she’s just made her own path to candidacy more difficult.

Now before I get bombarded with comments that I am a Sarah Palin hater, I’m not. I would have no problem voting for her if she won the nomination. That said, this may not have been one of her finest moments.

UPDATE: Based on A LOT of feedback, I’m being told that what she was actually doing was telling the party that the real target is Obama and not her, that she’s calling them out. Maybe that’s true and I completely missed it. It would certainly make more sense than laying out a roadmap for her demise. However if you take her words literally, which I did, then you may come to the same conclusion as I did above.

So there you have it. Either Palin is stupid or I am stupid, and sadly, it might be the latter in this case.




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39 comments
susan
susan

THEY ARE SCARED TO DEATH OF SARAH!!!!!!!!!!!!SHE CAB WHIP THEIR A** AND

THEY KNOW IT. IF REPUBLICANS CAN MAKE A SWEEP IN NOVEMBER, WE CAN SWEEP THEM CLEAN IN 2012 AND THEY KNOW IT. THE GOOD OLD REPUB BOYS

ARE JUST AS FRIEGHTENED AS THE OBAMA COMMUNIST TRASH. I SAY YOU GO SARAH BECAUSE YOU HAVE THEM RIGHT WHERE YOU WANT THEM. JUST WATCH HOW THE NEWS CASTERS ARE PLAYING HER DOWN. MAKE PENCE SARAH'S V.P..THEY CAN PUT THIS COUNTRY BACK TO GETHER. YOU GO SARAH.THE WORD DEMORAT MEANS COMMUNIST THESE DAYS. PEOPLE ARE LEAVING THAT PARTY IN DROVES. WE JUST HAD TWO STATE DEMOCRATS CHANGE OVER. IF IT IS HAPPENING HERE IN THE SOUTH, THEN IS GOING ON ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY.

HAPPENING ALL OVER. ONLY THE COMMUNIST CHICAGO AREA, EASTERN GROUP AND CALIFORNIA UNIONS ARE HANGING ON TO OBAMA ABND THE COMMUNIST. LET UM ALL GO DOWN IN SMOKE.

Paulchri
Paulchri

If they have to put her up for office, maybe she could hang out in the second seat as VP. We need another Ron Paul revolution. Maybe Jesse Ventura could be his VP. They would do some butt woopin. Sarah and Pence would just keep on killing foreigners in their own lands while bankrupting the country.

Extremely Right
Extremely Right

It's Criticise if you're British. Criticize if you're an American.

Bubba
Bubba

I don't mean to insult you dude. I just did some research and if you go to PalinTV.com and go to the Tammy Bruce Radio Show interview and go to the 6 min mark Tammy Bruce asks Sarah about her Hannity Show comment. Palin explains she meant to say if the GOP leadership disparages anyone who runs that they don't like. She clarified that she can take the GOP leadership's BS and that she has a thickskin and she said she will run. So I do agree, her comment without clarification sounded like she was giving up. However she's not, she's only begun.

Bubba
Bubba

Rightscoop you bone head, listen to all of her interviews in the last few days, she's been fighting back all these liberal dummies talking s#@! about her. Maybe she mispoke who knows. She would have thrown the towel to GOP liberal establishment long ago as far as not running for president. But she hasn't, she keeps figthing back and she knows she's despised by every independent/centrist/moderate/blueblood all euphemisms for liberal republicans. I'm enjoying the show right now. I think conservatives should duke it out with the liberal GOP leadership right now. Which is good, rather than when it's too late when a guy like McCain is nominated.

MirdSith
MirdSith

Sarah Palin plays three tiered chess and has a photographic memory.

Sophie
Sophie

Give me a break. She is absolutely right. She will have no chance if her own party joins the Liberals in knocking her in every way!! I don't see people who support Sarah treating other Candidates with this kind of disrespect. I think it is a shame. I wonder how they can treat her this way with all she has done to help the GOP and get so many elected!!!

Crusader21c
Crusader21c

Funny she won her seat on the town council against the GOP establishment, then the mayorship, and finally the governorship with no support from the GOP machine in Alaska. Sarah Palin knows how to run a first rate grassroots campaign and win without the support of a GOP political machine. Palin has been doing things this way for 20 years why can she not pull it off in 2012? I strongly believe that she can.

Aktommorow
Aktommorow

Conservatives wake up!! All she is saying is..Quit it, get organized support conservatives weather it is her or the one of your choice, stop tearing down those who are working so hard to bring back our country from the brink. She really does not care if you love her or not, she is trying to help and she is calling for you to step up, take a stand weather it is for her or not. Yes my vote will go to her, but when have you ever seen some one who is so honest to tell you this truth..America is more important then any one person, it does not have to be her, but it has to be someone who cares and is honest and a conservative..give her that much at least!

Crusader21c
Crusader21c

Dude name one person in the field of possible GOP 2012 contenders who is as conservative and as charismatic as she is. Hillbilly Huck, Big Lib Romney, or Yawn TPaw? None of these clowns are like Reagan, but Palin is. Reagan stepped up because there was no conservative alternative and we are in the same boat for 2012, Palin is the only conservative option we have for the 2012 GOP nomination.

CM Sackett
CM Sackett

No... and you've shown your Huff-Puff hand enough.

~This is your first and only thread to post on, and your tactics are kiddy-leftist classic.

Goodby.

Crusader21c
Crusader21c

Dude so your inpiration for your idea is Obama? Wow!

CM Sackett
CM Sackett

Child,

Where you're from the term "Dude" may work, and they may even give a rat's #SS what complete strangers think is "embarrassing".

...where men tread, neither holds sway.

You are, of course, welcome to your opinion. And now we each have a fairly clear idea of what the other thinks on both matters.

CM Sackett

Oh, BTW... a "newly elected" individual (who spent ALL his elected time running for the presidency) WAS ELECTED.

Now THAT was embarrassing.

Crusader21c
Crusader21c

Dude no newly elected Representative of the U.S. House is going to win the GOP nomination in 2012. In fact it is quite embarassing to see a fellow conservative think that this is even likely.

Crusader21c
Crusader21c

It is not just Sarah Palin that the GOP establishment opposes for the GOP in 2012, it would be any traditional conservative candidate who has a shot at winning the nomination. The GOP establishment are not conservatives and never have been. They fought against Goldwater in 1964; Reagan in 1968, 1976, and again in 1980. These RINO's have absolutely no desire to see a Reaganite in the White House whoever that may be. I hope Sarah Palin reads this because she is the only one who can break the back of the RINO GOP establishment and they know it. A law of nature is that creatures only attack that which they fear and they fear Sarah Palin. Have you noticed no attacks by the GOP elites on Hillbilly Huck? Why? Because he is not a threat and he is not even a conservative. How about the socialist/leftist Mitt Romney? Nope? Why? Because he is one of the GOP elites. If Palin wants the nomination she will be attacked by the GOP establishment just as Reagan was in 1968, 1976, and 1980. If Palin is truly a Reaganite she will weather this storm as Reagan did and win in the end.

lyf
lyf

You are reading too much into one interview. She has been asked this question a zillion times already. She will run a campaign on issues and the voters will decide. All this speculation will be meaningless in 2 years.

Bob
Bob

Hands down, we vote you.

Bob

4rcane
4rcane

she need the establishment support. Together I think she could beat Obama easily. Without the establishment, it will be difficult

Magicdixieranch
Magicdixieranch

IMO...Sarah is stoking the fires in the GOP....'if not me, than who?' to me is a battle cry to those who prefer liberty to this trajectory...so come on, fire it up...let the 'best candidate' to beat Obama rise to the surface! If no one gins up, she won't let 'old stock' lose 2012 (even if she's not 'it')...so don't recycle Newt, Mitt or Huck...they've been washed, dried & folded. Now, look at the target, focus...and decide what's your best shot. You KNOW the opponent & the weaknesses...right there, in front of you. Ready, aim & fire! Pull the damn trigger on this road to socialism ppl!!

Crusader21c
Crusader21c

Sarah Palin has made her political career in taking on the political establishment from local government to the Alaskan Governor's mansion. I highly doubt that she is worried about them now. Besides this she loves President Reagan who battled the GOP establishment in both 1976 and 1980. So is Palin telling the GOP "Establishment" how to defeat her or is she baiting them to attack her? Given the fierce anti-establishment attitude in the GOP grassroots the more opposition the GOP establishment provides the more Palin becomes the populist GOP heroine. Palin is literally daring the GOP establishment to attack her and this is just what she wants.

CM Sackett
CM Sackett

...to my thinking, you center-punched the 12-Ring with those statements.

NOTE:

* Sarah CAN 'wait' another election cycle (and continue to 'build her brand' and true readiness for the task of serving us in that office fearlessly).

...She's already proven to be THE Master of that (Rove, and his cousin obummer be DAMNED! lol!)

* I've noted (as have many of you) several times, her "taking a look at" the other people stepping forward; her looking for those "willing to make the tough decisions"; and her clear declaration that she would gladly and wholly "support" another candidate she found that quality in.

...and I believe that to be true (reason given at the close)

* She has spoken directly and with great clarity about how she is "loving" her "FREEDOM"... to Speak what she believes must be said... Confront, battle (and beat livin' HELL out of, so far) those issues AND people that need it (Aye, and AMEN!!!)... all the while, just BEING a 'hockey-mom from Wasilla', experiencing AND enjoying the beauty of her state, family and LIFE...

...with NO shackles, NO confines of any kind, and without the AWE-Full responsibilities that are... a true president's to shoulder, feel the weight of AND CONSTITUTIONALLY DEAL WITH.

CONCLUSION: Sarah Palin has proven (for YEARS) to be a 'political animal' ~ no, no that's not quite right. Sarah Palin has proven to be a AWE-full combination of a political SPARTAN (I can see Leonidas smiling and nodding approvingly at her shrewd ferocity... and I have heard Sarah say many times, in her crisp Northern way "Μολὼν λαβέ!") and a political Wen Chun MASTER (she is a master at 'slipping a punch, then following it back in for a wicked counter-strike'!)

But above and beyond all that, Sarah Palin... is an truly AMERICAN CITIZEN/Patriot. 'Country' does come before 'office' for her (thank God!).

And helping the rest of America's citizens bring this nation back to its FOUNDING PRINCIPLES, re-establishing the Constitution as THE LAW of the Land, and healing and strengthening those parts of it that have been purposely, and with great malice of forethought starved, broken and humiliated ~ IS her primary goal.

...therefore, she knows "she" can wait, even as she knows the Republic CANNOT.

FINAL NOTE: Some know that I am NOT a Palin 2012 "fan". I believe, with all my heart and from all I've studied about our Republic, and those who might do best at steering her back into "Sovereign" Waters... that ALLEN WEST is, far and away, the best choice for our next C.i.C.

However, should she be chosen by my fellow citizens to represent AMERICA in these next elections... I could (and would) work from that moment on, with all my strength to aid her candidacy. I do know that much about her.

CM Sackett

LovinLife
LovinLife

I don't think the "establishment" needs her to provide a roadmap to kill her candidacy. I'm pretty sure they're sitting in dark smoky rooms plotting her political demise already. Personally, I would love to see Gov. Palin as the RNC chairman if she doesn't want to run for Pres. She might actually be able to accomplish her goal of establishing a Conservative Republican party...

Cheryl~
Cheryl~

I think that might really be a good role for her. I heard her last night on Hannity and when talking about why she was doing her show from Alaska she said that she was mainly doing it to reach out to the independents instead of just preaching to the choir-I think Sarah knows she lacks the support of various large groups of people-independents are one of them and I give her credit for trying but I don't think she is going to run-she will run if she knows she can win-but it is still two more years and alot can happen...I personally don't think at this time she has the depth to run-but then again neither does Obama!

Yo
Yo

Palin is not going to run. She is smart and understands that America is going to elect the complete opposite of Obama. Just as Obama was presented as the opposite of Bush.

The country is going to elect someone that has lots of business and gov't executive experience with documented success. Ie Romney, Daniels or Pawlenty (spelling/). Palin is effective in her current role.

4rcane
4rcane

At least use a legit criticise, not the lie that she doesnt have lots of business and gov executive experience. She have gov executive experience for 20 years and documented success

4rcane
4rcane

criticise=criticism

4rcane
4rcane

I hope she doesn't start to believe her own lie. That she can effect positive changes without an office. Everything she's done for the past 2 years were minor in comparison to the damage that Obama has done in office

Sybilll
Sybilll

If you don't think that the Obama administration has not responded directly, or indirectly via Gibbsy, to a singular Facebook post or Tweet on multiple occasions, you have not been paying attention. This woman wields power.

4rcane
4rcane

I would be very disappointed if she doesn't run. It will dispirit her supporters so much, that a Obama 2012 is a guaranteed

The Monster
The Monster

I think she may be setting the stage to run AGAINST the establishment just as she did in AK. If they take the bait and try to torpedo her, she could run that outsider campaign.

Or she really doesn't think she can win, and this lets her say "See, Karl Rove and the other establishment types killed my candidacy!" and stay in her role as talking head.

Star Spankled
Star Spankled

I think if the GOP would support her she'd run and win . But I think she'd have to win the primary to win their support .

LovinLife
LovinLife

As we saw in Delaware, winning a Primary doesn't equal GOP support...

Sophie
Sophie

You are right. The GOP actively worked against Christine O'Donnell. They are sore losers and want to win at any cost. Even if Conservatives have to lose!!! Castle and Murkowski are beneath contempt. Both had said they would abide by the wish of the people and support the winner of the primary and neither did!!! They think they are royalty rather then Representatives of the People!!! With people like this on our side no wonder we are in the mess we are in!!!

LovinLife
LovinLife

As we saw in Delaware, winning a Primary doesn't equal GOP support...

katy
katy

No she didn't scoop. What she did was call their bluff. This proclamation is an offensive move ( which is Palin's trade mark ).

Now the base will be watching with eagle eyes for any shenanigans and the GOP has been uncovered...(because they've already been playing the discredit game for months)

She knows exactly how to play the game only she does it even better then the left!

Relax...

katy
katy

No she didn't scoop. What she did was call their bluff. This proclamation is an offensive move ( which is Palin's trade mark ).

Now the base will be watching with eagle eyes for any shenanigans and the GOP has been uncovered...(because they've already been playing the discredit game for months)

She knows exactly how to play the game only she does it even better then the left!

Relax...

Paulchri
Paulchri

True, they have been playing that game for a year or more. Her logic doesn't make sense if she is anit-establishment. She says that she doesn't want to get in the way of the GOP winning, because the important thing is unseating Obama. By saying this, she is revealing that she is a GOP establishment candidate. It would be better for Obama to win and have GOP majority in the house, than have a globalist GOP war monger in the white house with a GOP majority in the house. We need a real anti establishment republican such as Ron Paul. If she were to back Paul rather than globalist sellouts like McCain, she might become credible as anti establishment. Just getting rid of Obama isn't good enough, although it is greatly needed because he still has the ability screw us in the international scene.

Sybilll
Sybilll

She has pretty much stated this before, the only new revelation being that she spoke out about the GOP Cocktail Party establishment. We already knew that. The fact that she said it is not astonishing. And, no, I don't think you are a Palin hater.