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Sarah Palin not running for president

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin announced Wednesday evening that she would not be running for president in 2012.

On the Mark Levin radio show Wednesday evening, Palin said she believed she would have more impact outside of the race. The decision ends over a year of speculation about the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee’s plans.

“Not being a candidate, really you are unshackled and you’re able to be even more active,” she told Levin. “I need to be able to say what I want to say.”

Palin is still a huge star, but she has steadily sunk in polls since the 2008 campaign. If she ran and fared poorly, it would only diminish her influence.

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:23 am

Sarah Palin is certainly "acting" like someone running for President, but I am convinced that "acting" is operative word here. It's the best way for her to keep the cash register ringing....

I think she'll pretend that she's running right up until the moment she would actually have to throw her hat in the ring and then beg off....

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Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 4:37 am

I remain convinced that Palin is not going to run for the nomination; (if she did she would lose and lose badly) that's nothing but a 'shroom dream of the left.

What Palin is doing now fits quite well with what I predicted; that she would go through a lot of motions to act like she was going run to improve the market and brand value of Palin Inc.

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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:39 pm

The money is one major reason Palin won't run, the other is she knows that if she tried to get the nomination she'd get her ass kicked, and that would greatly diminish her "mystique" with her fans....

I agree with Lawrence O'Donnell, (now there's a phrase I don't write very frequently) that she'll act like she's going to run right up to the moment that she has to actually jump in and then not pull the trigger...The way he put it was that "she's running for billionaire"...I agree...

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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:13 am

As I've said before, I don't believe there's a snowball's chance in hell that Palin will actually run, though she will act like she is right up to the last possible moment to milk every available dollar out of the free press the speculation generates.

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:42 am

Steve will be elected President of Optimists International before Palin is the Republican Nominee for President of the US.

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Lord Jim wrote:IOn the Mark Levin radio show Wednesday evening, Palin said she believed she would have more impact outside of the race.

"More impact"? I wonder what she means by that?

Is there anyone in the whole world with a three digit IQ who actually thought she would run?

Gob wrote:

Lord Jim wrote:IOn the Mark Levin radio show Wednesday evening, Palin said she believed she would have more impact outside of the race.

"More impact"? I wonder what she means by that?

Lord Jim wrote: If you follow those links and look at the threads they are in, you will find that yes indeed, there were people who thought she was going to run....

I remember a lot of us hoping she would run Jim....

that's nothing but a 'shroom dream of the left.

McCain/Palin!!!!11!!!1!!!11!!!!!

The Documentary Palin Will Hate

In-your-face documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield turns his uncompromising lens on the former Alaska governor in ‘Sarah Palin: You Betcha!,’ opening Friday. He talks to Marlow Stern about his subject, Joe McGinniss’s Palin biography, and the Palin rumors too hot to include in the film.

The Frommer’s travel guidebook on Alaska describes the city of Wasilla as “the worst kind of suburban sprawl of highway-fronting shopping malls and gravel lots.” With a population of about 8,000, it’s also filled with an abundance of churches and, oddly enough, has the distinction of being the state meth capital despite its citywide ban on strip clubs. But in Nick Broomfield’s new documentary, Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, the city more closely resembles Twin Peaks, with its most popular resident, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, serving the role of the malefic Killer BOB, having brainwashed her former constituents into believing she’s someone worthy of their undying admiration.

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“I kind of like Sarah Palin for doing cocaine and sleeping with Glen Rice. It makes her kind of human and wonderful,” said Broomfield with a chuckle. “Of course I heard stories about her and Todd taking drugs and a lot of stories about her temper as a mother, but I didn’t really feel like that was part of my remit. Who hasn’t done drugs at some point or another? If you’re going to bring somebody down, I would bring somebody down for other reasons.”

“Her irrational way of dealing with people, and the way she gets rid of people and makes them enemies, should have people thinking twice,” said Broomfield.

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While it’s looking incredibly unlikely that Palin will jump into the 2012 race, Broomfield said he still believes she’s a “kingmaker” within the Tea Party, and recent polls still have her in the mix behind GOP presidential hopefuls Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. Despite her reality TV-diminished clout, Broomfield is more fearful of what Palin—and the Tea Party—represent in American politics, and what that means for this country’s future.

“The Rick Perrys and the Sarah Palins have created this romantic fiction of a piece of American history that never existed that people have bought into,” said a fired-up Broomfield. “Until the liberals come up with their own equivalent, and come up with their own heroes, and actually have the balls to stand up and argue their beliefs in a consistent way in terms of a larger political framework, the Perrys, Bachmanns, and Palins are going to be very powerful, and I think the country will go into a very dark period—both within the country, in terms of the dwindling middle class, and the world stage.”

Scooter wrote:Good thing those of us who saw her for what she is years ago aren't the kind to say I told you so to those who were actually stupid enough to vote to put her into the position to become POTUS had the stress of the job turned out to be too much for an old man to bear.

bigskygal wrote:Looks like Rubio's a big fat liar. Maybe not such a good VP pick?