Palin: ‘I do have the fire in my belly’ to run for president
That’s what she told Fox:
“I think my problem is that I do have that fire in my belly. I am so adamantly supportive of the good traditional things about America and our free enterprise system and I want to make sure that America is put back on the right track and we only do that by defeating Obama in 2012. I have that fire in my belly,” fmr. Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) tells FOX News.
The signs have been there for a while. She is engaged in South Carolina, a state without which a Republican doesn’t win the nomination. SarahPAC’s website got a sharp new redesign recently (and that site is headlining the “fire in the belly” interview today). Palin has positioned herself as a king or queen maker in races around the states. And she weighs in on the issues strategically and very effectively via her facebook page, her position on Fox and in interviews.
The question is, can she win? She has a lot of work to do with the independents she will need, no question about it. She will have Tina Fey dogging her every step. Many within the GOP are very skeptical of her. But everything she predicted about Obama in 2008 has come true, and she can certainly fire up the social con base in the GOP while speaking strongly to the fiscal con side as well. Sarah Palin can connect with an audience like very few other political figures can, and until she was torn apart by the media-left, she was the most popular governor in the country. With Huck out and no one else but Cain catching fire right now, her entrance into the race would be, to simultaneously play Captain Obvious and Dr. Cliche, a game changer.
And a recent Gallup poll of over 1,600 found that she had a 71% approval rating with Republicans and Republican leaning Indys.
I wish I had a dollar for every person that I hear say…”I love Sarah but I don’t think she can win”. If THOSE people would say “YES SHE CAN” then you would have a leader in the Republican Nomination and you would see the polls change to her favor. Even The Daily Kos had a poll that said 83% of undecideds would break for Palin over Obama! The Daily Kos!
“Come on, you apes! You want to live forever?”
The GOP/Republicans/Conservatives need a leader they can get behind. Someone who will follow through and do what they say they will do.
I want someone I can get behind 100%. Who can appreciate what America is. Right now the contenders are a bunch of blah. I do not want to vote for someone just because he is not ‘the one’.
Palin will have a very tough row to hoe if she goes for it due to the massive resources of the left that will attack her. I would rather fight and lose with a candidate like Palin then have to pull the lever for Romney.
I hope she goes for it.
She’s involved, know’s what she’s talking about and say’s what she believe’s. I trust her and think she would be great for the U.S. Gov. Palin is a hard worker and deserves our support…Go for it!!!
For a ‘quitter’, Palin sure keeps on keeps on. She would make a great president.
I say, Game on!
Palin/West 2012. That’s a ticket. I can think of a 1/2 dozen other great picks for Veep(Christy, Jindal, Cain, Rubio, Ryan, DeMint), but hands down Palin gets my primary vote. If she earns the republican nomination, I foresee a repeat of 1980. Run Sarah Run!
Palin/AnyoftheAbove 2012
Having followed Palin since she came on the national scene (actually a little before) I can only say if she WANTS to be president in 13, she will be. No, I don’t see how. I don’t understand the game. But so far what’s become clear is that this woman is a force of nature. If she wants it, I pitty the fool who’d try to stop her.
she’s a Rhodes Scholar and shoots animals from planes…and has no trouble telling people what she likes to read….
best of the lot she is….she’s an econ wizard…
Palin loves America and points out blood libels like the media…
Why is Palin important? She loves her country and makes no apologies for doing so…. she says what she thinks in a bold manner. And she’s forced the White House to expend time and resources answering her questions and challenges.
America is tired of politicians who dissemble and placate. Who talk the country down and encourage the politics of jealousy. Part of our current economic issues lie at the feet of a President who has no ability to make people feel that we have the power to move the economy in our hands, because he views success as being terrible.
“Fire in the Belly?” Drink gasoline and exhale the inferno!
Our Cinderella will make a cinder out of that Zero fella.
Sarah, you lead, we’ll cheerlead.
I’m afraid Sarah’s star has come and gone. I have been tepid in favor of Cain, but after today’s official announcement, I am dead sold and banner waving. Herman will keep a job open for her as Sec/State, since we know about her solid foreign policy experience. Seriously, other considerations aside, I think Cain has pre-empted the solid right; if you can forgive the metaphor mixing, even if her star had not gone, the train has left the station.
If she runs, she will win it. Cain is great, and I would vote for him in a second. However, he simply does not have the organization and resources that Palin does. No one does, except Obama. I have been saying this for 2 years now, and it is still true.
This is the Republicans’ election to lose. A decent candidate will win, but there is a distinct lack of decent candidates. It must be someone who is truly credible on reducing the government’s role. It also must be someone who will have long coattails, so he can carry others across the finish line, in order to get the kind of Congress we will also need for true reform. It’s not just the Presidency. It requires yet another historic election like ’10. Palin will have the coattails. No one else will.
Palin/Cain or Cain/Palin works for me.
Its rather obvious that if all you folks write her name in on your ballots, you will have your Palin as president in 2013 With that gallup poll indicating 71% of the GOP and Independents supporting her, how can you loose with your write-in?
I can’t wait to hear the ‘breaking news’ on November 3/4, 2012….”Plain forced into office by the voters.”
Silly human, votes are for elites! I can tell you from personal experience that write-in votes in Texas do NOT matter unless you follow the exact same trajectory as the establishment candidates. I’m fairly certain that most states operate in the same fashion because the republicrats want to maintain control. Gather the petitions or pay the fees for every ballot line, even “write-in”, or your write-in “vote” will be tossed on the ground by the vote monitors. While it is obvious that asking people to count votes for Mickey Mouse might be a waste of time since he didn’t pass any petitions, the percentage of people supporting a cartoon character speaks volumes about the republic’s health.
Over the last couple of years, while other GOP presidential hopefuls were planing on how to convince us that they have ample capability and fortitude, Sarah was showing us she has ample capability and fortitude.
I wish more of the GOP would grow a pair, of ovaries, or whatever it takes for them to fight like Palin. (I read somewhere that ovaries may be the new cojones.)
Sarah Palin reminds me of Deborah… one of the Judges of Israel (Judges 4,5).
Why she was called… God knows… but she was called… and she answered.
I feel the same way about Palin.
Yes, she can win! I agree with others, for everyone that says she could not win, they should just turn it around and start believing in the fact that she could win!