Tag: Sarah Palin

Darn! Think of how much fun it would have been to watch the GOP primaries!

The former half-term governor of Alaska released a statement to her “followers” this evening. It said, in part:

After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.

My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation’s governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the “fundamental transformation” of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.

You can read the whole statement here.

I, personally, didn’t think she would run this election cycle. She stands to lose too much money AND she would have to answer to SOMEONE. As we’ve seen, the former half-term governor likes to comment from the sidelines (or the peanut gallery) with no responsibility. Plus, she likes all that money. President of the United States would be a big cut in pay for her and the Palin brood.

Tune in to watch her play “king maker” in the GOP primaries.

Via CNN: Todd Palin released a scathing statement late Wednesday about author Joe McGinniss, whose new book about former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has grabbed internet and tabloid headlines, as well as received harsh criticism from The New York Times.

“This is a man who has been relentlessly stalking my family to the point of moving in right next door to us to harass us and spy on us to satisfy his creepy obsession with my wife,” Palin said. “His book is full of disgusting lies, innuendo, and smears. Even The New York Times called this book ‘dated, petty,’ and that it ‘chases caustic, unsubstantiated gossip.'”

McGinniss’ book, “The Rogue,” is set for publication next week and is the latest work from the bestselling author who first rose to national prominence with “The Selling of the President 1968,” which described the marketing of Richard Nixon during the 1968 campaign.

In early 2010 McGinniss moved to Wasilla, Alaska to begin research for a book about the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee and rented the house immediately next door to the Palins.

It was expected that anything McGinniss wrote would be denounced by the Palins.

I haven’t read the book, but I’m certainly curious.

For those who are interested, check it out on Amazon.

The Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial start of the presidential campaign season, and many of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination have started to take shots at each other, not just at President Obama, reports CBS News political correspondent Jan Crawford.

Several jabbed at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, perceived by many pundits as the latest frontrunner.

That list included former half-term governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin – who’s managing to keep speculation alive about whether she’s going to toss her hat into the GOP ring.

At a Tea Party rally in Indianola, Iowa, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee took what Crawford says appeared to be a swipe at Perry, after reports suggesting he was cozy with big donors.

“Some GOP candidates,” Palin said, “they also raise mammoth amounts of cash and we need to ask them, too: What, if anything, do their donors expect in return from their investments?”

Most of the leading Republican contenders will be in South Carolina today at a political forum hosted by powerful, arch-conservative Sen. Jim DeMint.

And DeMint told “Early Show” co-anchor Jeff Glor he doesn’t think a Palin run is in the cards this time around.

“It doesn’t appear that she is,” going to get into the fray, DemInt said. “She’s done a lot, I think, to engage the American people and stir things up, which we really needed to do, to get American citizens more involved in the process. It made a big difference in the last election. My hope is it’ll make an even bigger difference in the next election, as people take back their government.”

According to a new poll from Fox News, 71% of the registered Republicans who were surveyed from Aug. 29 to Aug. 31 said Palin, the former half-term Alaska governor who was John McCain’s running mate in 2008, should sit out the 2012 race. Just 25 percent said they believe she should run.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Sarah Palin canceled her Saturday appearance at a tea party rally in Indianola, Iowa.

The person cited “continual lying” from event organizers at Tea Party of America, including a recent mixup over whether former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell of Delaware would also speak.

Tea Party of America President Ken Crow told NBC News, “I had to cancel Ms. O’Donnell” after a conversation with Sarah Palin aides — and is now hopeful Palin will attend the Saturday rally in Indianola. The group has spent about $100,000 on the event for Palin and are thus waiting “with baited breath” for an answer.

The former half-term governor of Alaska is known for last-minute schedule changes that whipsaw supporters and media across the country. But the latest decision is puzzling. Ms. Palin’s speech at the rally was viewed as her most high-profile appearance of the summer, fueling speculation she was indeed plotting to run for the Republican presidential nomination.

Her decision apparently stems from the on-again, off-again inviting of Christine O’Donnell at the rally, which there is some finger-pointing about over how that happened.

But for people looking for a sign of “seriousness” about a campaign, this is not it.

The pro-Sarah Palin documentary, “The Undefeated,” posted more disappointing box office sales over the weekend, earning just over $5,000.

The movie, which opened nation-wide July 15, follows the former half-term Alaska governor’s career through home movies, photographs, interviews with former aides and supporters and the audio from her memoir “Going Rogue.”

The documentary grossed $65,132 in its opening weekend in 10 theaters and dropped to $24,664 in the second weekend in 14 theaters. It was viewed in four theaters this past weekend and grossed an estimated $5,200.