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If god shows the way, Palin says she's ready for White House (Feature)
By Gabriele Chwallek Nov 14, 2008, 3:05 GMT
Washington - Sarah Palin is saying more than a prayer as she sheds the baggage of the 2008 presidential election and prepares for the next - convinced that God will show her the way to the White House.
In the first of numerous post-election interviews, the Republican Party's 2008 vice presidential candidate was asked if she would run in 2012: 'Faith is a very big part of my life and putting my life in my creator's hands this is what I always do - I'm like, okay, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere. This is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door.'
She told Fox News: 'Even if it's cracked up a little bit, maybe I'll plough right on through that, and maybe prematurely plough through it. But don't let me miss an open door.'
Some might think it's a little early for Palin to seek such divine intervention, but it appears that the 44-year-old Alaska governor has already started her campaign for the next presidential race.
Palin has been more available to the media since the November 4 election than when she on the campaign trail with Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
She has been serving up quotable interviews - and the occasional meal. One journalist got comfortable in her kitchen in Wasilla, Alaska, where she cooked moose chilli and made sandwiches.
Another reporter and Palin's husband, Todd - whom she anointed the 'First Dude' during the campaign - hopped onto a snowmobile and ploughed through - not into the White House - but the pristine white snow in the continent's north-western corner.
Palin has been deftly using the numerous media opportunities to set the record straight, or at least to defend herself against apparent leaks from within her own party in the post-election period of bitter introspection.
'She wants to rehabilitate her image and get everybody to love her again,' Larry Persily, a former Palin advisor, was quoted as saying in the Washington Post.
CNN analyst Glora Borger said: 'That she has been preoccupied with clearing her name ... is an indication that she's got big plans for the future.'
Palin has been criticized for being a drag on the Republican ticket, with many blaming her for McCain's defeat.
'I think the economic collapse had a heckuva lot more to do with the campaign collapse than me personally,' she told broadcaster NBC.
She has had to fend off a string of curious and alarming stories about her since the Republican debacle. Anonymous McCain aides leaked stories to the media claiming that she thought Africa was a country, not a continent, and that she could not name the three countries in NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Other sources described her as a 'whack job,' accused her of acting like a 'diva' and shopping for clothes - including silken boxer shorts for Todd - worth 150,000 dollars at expensive New York stores. There were even rumours of her greeting McCain staffers in a hotel room, wearing only a towel.
Palin was quick to lash out: 'This is cruel and mean-spirited, it's immature, it's unprofessional, and those guys are jerks. ... It's not fair, and it's not right.'
Far from disappearing quietly, Palin was the centre of attention at the annual Republican Governors Association conference in Miami, Florida.
On Thursday, she even held a news conference - something she never did during the election cycle - taking just four questions. She wasn't inclined to discuss the 2008 race for the White House, stating: 'The campaign is over.'
Asked whether she would run in 2012, Palin said: 'I, like all of our governors, we're focused on the future.'
'The future for us is not the 2012 presidential race. It's next year and our next budget, and the next reforms in our states. And in 2010 we're going to have 36 governors positions open across the US. That's what we're focused on.'
Apart from God, if Palin has faith, it's that public memory will be short and that the electorate is forgiving.
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Palin would be the best thing to ever happen to the Democrat Party! I've never heard anyone talk and talk like she does and when she stops, you don't have one idea of what the hell she actually said. Everyone cringed when Bush talked his 'good old boy' talk, but she has him beat hands down with her refusal to acknowledge there is a 'g' in the alphabet among so many other gaffes in her language. People need to look beyond her good looks at the goofball she really is.
Shawn, you overunderestimate the stupidity of the electorate.
Spitfire
God speaks to me sometimes.
He's real nice - never tells me anything I don't want to hear - always agrees with me.
Sometimes I think I could do his job.
Shawn,
Was that a fault with your spell-checker ?
If not - please readjust your TV
Bush would say you 'misunderestimate' the stupidity of the electorate.
Nah.
This article is just too obvious. It's no fun picking on someone when they have no hypocrisy.
I like Palin: She is truthful and direct. Nothing wrong with that. When she drops a bomb it IS a jesus-bomb and she knows it.
Good for Palin. You might not like her style, but at least she is honest.
Palin said, 'It's not fair, and it's not right.'
For a moment, I thought she was talking about Obama's left leg.
... and be successful.
Don't discount the fact that people like Sarah and think she IS good looking and personable. A lot of people can't see past that, regardless of what others think of her. If she was fat and homely, she wouldn't have the following she has - think about it. A lot of people don't go beyond the surface. If they did, she would not be given a second thought. If these people really listened - REALLY listened, to what she says, they would wonder, like I commented earlier - 'just what the hell DID she say?'
God wouldn't do that to the U.S.
he'll take this b*tch and drop kick her through the goal posts of life.
..by answering your prayers....
What a pathetic statement - even for you SP. I don't give a rat's ass how religious Palin is or what she believes in, but try as she may, she won't get very far in Washington politics. She is all talk and talk and talk that doesn't amount to any thing.
And will somebody slap that stupid c***'s face and tell her that 'to progress this country' is NOT ENGLISH!!!
That vulgar piece of white thrash irritates me no end...
Spitfire
She is more like an annoying little rat dog than a pit bull. It's not talk, talk, talk, but yap, yap, yap. Kick the little mongrel and it goes yipe, yipe, yipe.
is packin' a sh*t bomb between his ears.
the devil will make her do it.
If Obama serves four years as President, he'll actually have more experience governing than Palin has right now!
What a ticket. It's totally hot! LOL
could govern for a hundred years and wouldn't reach the intelligence and capability of Obama!
I am so sick of seeing Palin's cartoonish face and hearing her nasal, sing-song, sqwauking as she spews an endless line of vapid, brain-dead banter I could scream.
On the other hand, as a Democrat, I sincerely hope she is the Republican nominee in 2012, and every four years after that for the rest of time.
Palin might try to run for Republican candidate, but she wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of ever being elected even for that. When McCain has been asked in interviews how he really felt about her and if she hurt his chances, and, of course, he isn't going to say he didn't want her and she did hurt him. Sometimes the questions reporters and interviewers ask are so ludicrous, like these people are really going to spill their guts on TV. That crap is only done by entertainers.
Palin is so yesterday - hope she stays there.
''If god shows the way, Palin says she's ready for White House''
You lost the election, sister. He has shown you the way back to Alaska. Buh-bye.
This one: 'When she drops a bomb it IS a jesus-bomb and she knows it.'
I suppose there are going to be a lot of fire works when the world witnesses God's wrath. Now, ain't that the bomb?
Even a turkey would not vote for her now, and they're about as dumb a critter as there is. Slightly higher on the evolutionary scale than a deep-south fundamentalist.
How appropriate for her to give an interview in front of a turkey being slaughtered! She is still doing her double talking - talking, talking, talking and never really saying anything- OMG!! Listening to her is as bad as water torture - maybe worse!
Make a good in-house prostitute. I mean I'll poke her for 20 bucks.
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SpitfireNov 14th, 2008 - 03:48:11
Gee! No! Say it ain't so!
I'm like, they're totally taking her seriously in that thing where she speaks there, because it's like, God is there and His big old ZZ Top beard is shedding on my velvet purse and He says, like, y'know, He's going, like, you betcha Sarah!
Higher! Make the pie higher, Sarah!
Wink wink!
And I thought they couldn't go any lower than Dubya.
'Gold digger' doesn't even BEGIN to cover it.
Sarah-Mae and her husband Jethro are the worse kind of opportunistic profiteers that can be found in any domain, exactly the same kind of leeches as those wall street execs who cashed in and ran.
They're hillbillies with a twist of federal funding. All she wants is to apply for an extremely, I mean EXTREMELY power grabbing version of welfare.
She sees her role as lip service and just going through the motions and reaping the rewards from anybody who is stupid enough to pay attention to her, never mind take her seriously. She's riding the wave. She's waiting to become a 'phenomenon'. She'll eat it all up like a black hole and ask for more. She has two 'strengths' : the humongous ego of a Hitler and the ethics of a sociopath.
If she gets caught stealing money with her hand in the cash register, she'll say the cash register drawer BIT her hand. And the repugnicans will WANT to believe her. And they will APPLAUD HER, by Jingo!
As an Alaskan, she's just a wily, power hungry, self aggrandizing, low-down, despicable ignoramus. In power, she will become a monster.
Globally.
As for McCain, I'd love to see him drawn and quartered. I'm serious. I'd love to see this old creep get his just desert. Only an irresponsible, desperate idiot would let this particular genie out of its bottle. And now he's paying lip service to her! He makes me sick. What a hero HE turned out to be.
Palin is the perfect symbol of a total bankruptcy in most aspects of democratic life, induced by eight long years of suffering a totally bankrupt and insipid man to be in near autocratic power. Palin is a gluttonous, a no-account shithead.
And, of course she's be baaaack..!
Spitfire
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