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brooklynite

(94,727 posts)
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 08:52 PM Jul 2013

Palin: I'm considering a Senate run

Source: CNN

Sarah Palin may not be done with politics after all.

The former Alaska governor, who was also 2008's GOP vice presidential nominee, said Tuesday she's contemplating a bid for U.S. Senate against Democrat Mark Begich. He's up for re-election in 2014.

"I've considered it because people have requested me [to] consider it," Palin told conservative radio host Sean Hannity on his show. "I'm still waiting to see what the lineup will be. And hoping there will be some new blood, new energy. Not just kind of picking from the same old politicians in the state that come from political families."

Begich, a former mayor of Anchorage, was elected in 2008. He defeated longtime GOP Sen. Ted Stevens, who died in 2010 in a plane crash.


Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/09/palin-im-considering-a-senate-run/?hpt=hp_t2



C'mon, we couldn't possibly be this lucky...
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Palin: I'm considering a Senate run (Original Post) brooklynite Jul 2013 OP
...and then she'll quit midway through the campaign. muntrv Jul 2013 #1
NOOOOOO...... say it isn't so. femmocrat Jul 2013 #2
Palin is back on Faux, they've rehired her. n/t Tx4obama Jul 2013 #17
Yes, I know. femmocrat Jul 2013 #32
I think Fox didn't want to renew her contract at same rate/money so they let her go when it ran out Tx4obama Jul 2013 #36
'people have requested me consider it' Cirque du So-What Jul 2013 #3
That or she's been listening to way too much reggae. Scootaloo Jul 2013 #7
LOL. nt SunSeeker Jul 2013 #55
She might want to take a middle school language arts class prior to running olddad56 Jul 2013 #9
Serious question: is this legitimate to criticize? David__77 Jul 2013 #44
Yeah, but as long as we are opposing her, Aristus Jul 2013 #49
Haha, fair enough. David__77 Jul 2013 #59
David, she wants to be one of 100 people making our national policy. it is perfectly roguevalley Jul 2013 #51
"people have requested me consider it"... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2013 #46
Oh no... as she once put it.... defacto7 Jul 2013 #58
+ 1000 red dog 1 Jul 2013 #82
Half-baked Alaskan seeks another half-term! struggle4progress Jul 2013 #4
Sarah its a 6 yrs term not 3.... Historic NY Jul 2013 #5
Please proceed arcane1 Jul 2013 #6
Maybe she can run against turtle in KY? Ruby the Liberal Jul 2013 #8
Shit. Can't she just GO AWAY? Pleeeease? n/t Laurian Jul 2013 #10
Please. Pab Sungenis Jul 2013 #11
Do the "people (that) have requested me consider it" live in Alaska? jmowreader Jul 2013 #12
no. she couldn't get elected dog catcher here. I believe it. roguevalley Jul 2013 #52
Another circus Iliyah Jul 2013 #13
When asked if she would be up to the challenge of a full Senate term, NorthCarolina Jul 2013 #14
LOL nt femmocrat Jul 2013 #33
DUzy. nt awoke_in_2003 Jul 2013 #47
Can she beat Joe Miller in the primary? Ter Jul 2013 #15
That would be one hell of a Republican primary davidpdx Jul 2013 #18
That's "Dumberer" hifiguy Jul 2013 #39
How long since she has even seen Alaska I wonder rurallib Jul 2013 #16
My checkbook is at your disposal, Grifter. nt onehandle Jul 2013 #19
No problem, she'll quit halfway through it. Autumn Jul 2013 #20
Who? snort Jul 2013 #21
Las Vegas oddsmakers immediately set the over/under on how many years NoGOPZone Jul 2013 #22
You never know for sure in politics, but I doubt if she could win that seat. totodeinhere Jul 2013 #23
And to get the donations to start rolling in. n/t woodsprite Jul 2013 #41
As A Republican? otohara Jul 2013 #24
Yes! The "Freedom" Party. femmocrat Jul 2013 #34
As entertaining at is may be, can we not pick from the top of the barrel for shit this important? Gregorian Jul 2013 #25
don't you have to know how to read to be in the senate? allin99 Jul 2013 #26
"Palin" and "the runs" -- they certainly are made for each other tomm2thumbs Jul 2013 #27
Calling Tina Fey. Solly Mack Jul 2013 #28
Little miss quity pants has a mission.... Grassy Knoll Jul 2013 #29
I'm considering a Nobel Prize in physics aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2013 #30
For the Tea Party or Freedom Party? ErikJ Jul 2013 #31
she's banking heavily on the MORAN vote. Javaman Jul 2013 #35
There's her campaign manager!! lastlib Jul 2013 #43
........... trusty elf Jul 2013 #70
LOL! nt Lucky Luciano Jul 2013 #37
And the comedy writers said Hallelujah. hifiguy Jul 2013 #38
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA mckara Jul 2013 #40
Didn't she pull this same kinda shit awhile back? Lasher Jul 2013 #42
Wasn't she rumored to have moved from Alaska some time ago? Or am I making that up? I silvershadow Jul 2013 #45
She wants to give it a 2-year try, she if she'll stay or regign. Coyotl Jul 2013 #48
I'll just remind everyone to be careful what you wish for... jimlup Jul 2013 #50
She will not defeat Begich!! bravenak Jul 2013 #53
Love Shannyn Moore! SunSeeker Jul 2013 #56
I listen all the time. bravenak Jul 2013 #60
Mudflats is run by Jeanne Devon tammywammy Jul 2013 #75
Correct. Shannyn Moore is Contributing Editor. Link: SunSeeker Jul 2013 #80
Her only chance is if Tony Knowles, the former(just barely)Democratic governor, Ken Burch Jul 2013 #61
Not Tony Knowles again! bravenak Jul 2013 #66
Most people wouldn't have to for Caribou Barbie to win. Ken Burch Jul 2013 #67
It was my opinion that Knowles was the reason she won. bravenak Jul 2013 #69
Most people up here couldn't imagine him in the Senate when he ran for it in 2004 Ken Burch Jul 2013 #71
And surprisingly I sorta grudgingly like Lisa. bravenak Jul 2013 #72
On a good day, she's sort of a "Maine Republican senator" type. n/t. Ken Burch Jul 2013 #74
I know next to nothing about Alaskan politics but I would think the people chelsea0011 Jul 2013 #73
She'll primary a Goper who could maybe hold onto a seat and then she'll lose it because Monk06 Jul 2013 #54
Palin is history. nt delrem Jul 2013 #57
Translation: "NOBODY has asked me to consider it." 6000eliot Jul 2013 #62
"There's a 'brightness' knob on the tv, but it don't work!" -- Gallagher Major Hogwash Jul 2013 #63
Doesn't she realize Spirochete Jul 2013 #64
Pathetic Palin is just one big phony tease, as usual. PearliePoo2 Jul 2013 #65
Winners never quit, quitters NEVER win. truthisfreedom Jul 2013 #68
John McCain deserves faithnomore Jul 2013 #76
Why, so she can quit in 2015? sinkingfeeling Jul 2013 #77
Oh, with everything going on, we could really use the comic relief. Run, Palin, Run! tavalon Jul 2013 #78
Don't you have to disclose your finances when you run for the senate? Yavin4 Jul 2013 #79
Does she even live in Alaska anymore? Major Hogwash Jul 2013 #81

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
2. NOOOOOO...... say it isn't so.
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 08:53 PM
Jul 2013

I can't stand seeing her all over TV again. The best thing ever was when she was fired from Faux.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
32. Yes, I know.
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 10:01 PM
Jul 2013

Maybe that has something to do with her getting back into politics. She has a huge spotlight to exploit now.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
36. I think Fox didn't want to renew her contract at same rate/money so they let her go when it ran out
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 10:05 PM
Jul 2013

... when she realized she was out of a job she backed down and signed the new contract with the pay cut.

I doubt she will actually run for office, she'd rather just be on TV spewing her BS.



David__77

(23,503 posts)
44. Serious question: is this legitimate to criticize?
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 10:55 PM
Jul 2013

I don't think her verbal skills are really the problem. I also don't think someone with poor language skills should necessarily be precluded from gaining progressive support. There are so many other reasons to oppose her.

David__77

(23,503 posts)
59. Haha, fair enough.
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 02:41 AM
Jul 2013

Trust me, I had no intention of defending her. Just making a point that I might have a double standard for a progressive that talks like that.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
51. David, she wants to be one of 100 people making our national policy. it is perfectly
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 12:15 AM
Jul 2013

okay to talk about it. She is a numbskull. I've known that since 1996. Its time everyone else did. By the way, she isn't running. Trust me.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
12. Do the "people (that) have requested me consider it" live in Alaska?
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:04 PM
Jul 2013

A bunch of horny teabaggers who live in Tennessee or Idaho are not going to help Corrupt Sarah win an election in Alaska, where they know her ass and are NOT real happy with her.

 

NorthCarolina

(11,197 posts)
14. When asked if she would be up to the challenge of a full Senate term,
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:07 PM
Jul 2013

she replied "Two years isn't really that bad, I was the Governor of Alaska for that long".

rurallib

(62,448 posts)
16. How long since she has even seen Alaska I wonder
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:12 PM
Jul 2013

5, 6 years?

Oh well, the scamming bucks must be getting low - time to fleece the sheeps again

totodeinhere

(13,059 posts)
23. You never know for sure in politics, but I doubt if she could win that seat.
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:26 PM
Jul 2013

She has lost most of her popularity in that state. Besides, I don't think she is serious about running. She is probably just saying this to get attention.

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)
25. As entertaining at is may be, can we not pick from the top of the barrel for shit this important?
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:40 PM
Jul 2013

This has a crappy effect on the bad image Congress already has.

Right honorable bimbo.

allin99

(894 posts)
26. don't you have to know how to read to be in the senate?
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:43 PM
Jul 2013

i mean, no offense, but don't you have to have a great deal of law experience? She's not qualified for anything except stupid. damn, it sounds harsh, but i kinda mean it in all seriousness.

tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)
27. "Palin" and "the runs" -- they certainly are made for each other
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:45 PM
Jul 2013

in fact I'd say they were downright synonymous

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
31. For the Tea Party or Freedom Party?
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 10:00 PM
Jul 2013

She said a couple weeks ago she was thinking of starting a Freedom Party.

Lasher

(27,636 posts)
42. Didn't she pull this same kinda shit awhile back?
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 10:13 PM
Jul 2013

If memory serves, she threatened to run for another office and backed out. The consensus here was she never intended to run.

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
45. Wasn't she rumored to have moved from Alaska some time ago? Or am I making that up? I
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 11:15 PM
Jul 2013

could swear I remember reading some little blurb about it.... ??

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
48. She wants to give it a 2-year try, she if she'll stay or regign.
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 11:41 PM
Jul 2013

She incorrectly assumes she could defeat Begich

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
50. I'll just remind everyone to be careful what you wish for...
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 11:45 PM
Jul 2013

She's dumb as a post but a dumb post in the US Senate can be a problem as we can clearly see from the Republicans already there.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
53. She will not defeat Begich!!
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 12:23 AM
Jul 2013

We Alaskans are sick and tired of Sarah big hair Palin! Begich could beat her in a write in campaign.
Like Murkowski beat her boy Joe Miller. She embarrasses the shit out of us.
If she runs Shannon Moore will enjoy exposing the hell out of her!

SunSeeker

(51,691 posts)
56. Love Shannyn Moore!
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 01:09 AM
Jul 2013

Last edited Wed Jul 10, 2013, 06:23 PM - Edit history (1)

And her website, Mudflats, is hilarious. Yes, Palin would be pilloried. And her approval rating is already in the toilet.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
60. I listen all the time.
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 03:53 AM
Jul 2013

I think we hate Palin more than the rest of the country combined. We love to make fun of her and troopergate.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
61. Her only chance is if Tony Knowles, the former(just barely)Democratic governor,
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 04:04 AM
Jul 2013

makes good on the talk he's been spreading about running as an independent.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
66. Not Tony Knowles again!
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 06:07 AM
Jul 2013

I wouldn't pick him over Begich. Sarah just needs to go back into her hole.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
67. Most people wouldn't have to for Caribou Barbie to win.
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 06:11 AM
Jul 2013

Knowles would only have to pull about five to seven percent of the vote to swing the race, and swinging it might be enough for him. My impression is that he wants vengeance against Mark for some reason-what other possible rationale could he have for running what he would have to know would be a hopeless race?

Knowles is responsible in significant measure for the condition the Alaska Democratic Party finds itself in now...when he was governor, he never wanted the Democrats to take over either chamber of the state legislature OR even to gain any significant number of seats(and refused to campaign for Democratic legislative candidates in virtually any district(even though it wouldn't have cost him a single seat to do so). This meant that when Frank Murkowski beat Fran Ulmer in the 2002 governor's race, Democrats in Alaska were left with nothing at all. And he did next to nothing to help Diane Benson when she had a real shot at beating Don Young for the Alaska congressional seat in 2006(Knowles was trying to get back into the governor's office that year, and managed, to his eternal disgrace, to LOSE an election to Sarah Palin). Ironically, after all that, Knowles and Benson ended up with virtually the same percentage of the popular vote...each winning about 41%.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
69. It was my opinion that Knowles was the reason she won.
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 06:23 AM
Jul 2013

The Democratic Party is weak up here, and I don't think bringing him back will help at all. I just can't imagine him in the senate, and I reall hate the idea of Palin ever holding office again. Bu if she runs, she'll get all the attention. And sadly I never know what she's talking about.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
71. Most people up here couldn't imagine him in the Senate when he ran for it in 2004
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 06:37 AM
Jul 2013

That's why he ended up blowing a huge lead against Lisa Murkowski, even though the vast majority of the electorate in this state were outraged that her daddy, Frank Murkowski, had elevated her to the Senate by appointing her to his old seat when he was elected governor.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
72. And surprisingly I sorta grudgingly like Lisa.
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 06:53 AM
Jul 2013

Being a republican woman senator has got to be hard if you're not insane. Or inane. Or have some strange ideas.
I never knew you could appoint a family member. I was shocked that it was legal.

chelsea0011

(10,115 posts)
73. I know next to nothing about Alaskan politics but I would think the people
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 07:02 AM
Jul 2013

of Alaska would have a difficult time electing someone who just up and quit as Governor.

Monk06

(7,675 posts)
54. She'll primary a Goper who could maybe hold onto a seat and then she'll lose it because
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 12:44 AM
Jul 2013

SHE'S NUTS !!!!!

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
63. "There's a 'brightness' knob on the tv, but it don't work!" -- Gallagher
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 04:45 AM
Jul 2013

Palin doesn't have a chance of running for office again.
She's been on tv for years already, yet we all know that she shouldn't be!!!

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
65. Pathetic Palin is just one big phony tease, as usual.
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 04:59 AM
Jul 2013

All she's doing is trying to drum up some attention from the media (who's basically written her off) in hopes of boosting her sagging donations once again.
She's a fucking idiot...still, also, too, you betcha!

 

faithnomore

(41 posts)
76. John McCain deserves
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 08:09 AM
Jul 2013

a front seat in the hottest part of hell for bringing this malignant, hate-spewing, tramp into the public limelight.

Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
79. Don't you have to disclose your finances when you run for the senate?
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 11:51 AM
Jul 2013

If so, then no way she's running.

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