Republican VP Nominee Palin Eyeing 2012: Report

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By REUTERS
Published: October 29, 2008
Filed at 7:42 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Whether or not Republican presidential candidate John McCain is elected next week, his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, plans to remain on the U.S. national political scene, ABC News reported on Wednesday.

Asked about 2012, whether she was discouraged by daily attacks on the campaign trail and whether she would return home to Alaska, the Republican vice presidential nominee signaled that she expects to be a player in the next presidential election cycle.

"I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we've taken ... I'm not doing this for naught," Palin told ABC News in a taped interview airing on Thursday.

A campaign spokesperson traveling with Palin in Indiana said the vice presidential nominee was talking about being focused on winning on November 4 and is not going to quit despite what the critics have said.

With less than a week before Election Day, Palin told ABC that she believes in the current Republican presidential ticket and that she thinks "it's going to go our way on Tuesday, November 4."

"I truly believe that the wisdom of the people will be revealed on that day," she said.

Palin has energized the Republican base of supporters. But the Alaska governor has come under withering criticism on a variety of issues, including whether she is qualified to become vice president.

(Writing by Joanne Allen; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)



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[LynnTheDem]

1. Bring it on, silly stupid little twit.

By all fucking means, bring it the fuck on.

She thinks the media is "mean" to her now...

[SharonAnn]

4. I think she'd be a great GOP candidate to run against President Obama.

[BunkerHill24]

6. wait after she enlists as Jerry Springer replacement "Diva"

I heard Jerry is retiring soon...LOL

[muntrv]

2. 2012 should give her the finger in response.

[Trajan]

3. Damn I hope so ....

She wont be able to graduate the 6th grade by 2012 ....

[UpInArms]

5. one word comes to mind

...

delusional

[WheelWalker]

33. Delusions of adequacy. n/t

[mulah]

7. She will lose to Romney

She will be blamed for McCain's loss.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. Romney is going nowhere

Mormonism only has slightly more in common with christianity than scientology - as the Republican party is further distilled to the christian fundementalist base Romney will have even less support.

[OhioChick]

8. That would be an easy ass win for the Dems. n/t

[gratuitous]

9. A concession speech already, huh?

Terrific. Let's see how long we can make Obama's coattails, shall we? Several Republican Senators are already arranging their retirement schedules; I'll bet we can sideline a whole slew of Representatives, maybe even a couple of "safe" ones.

Hee, hee, hee.

[Doctor_J]

14. sounds liket that to me too

very gracious of her to concede already

[llmart]

10. I hope we don't see any more of this idiot.....

after November 4th. She truly is delusional.

[Irishonly]

12. LOL

All I could think of were the Palin fools that may not vote on Tuesday to make sure she can run. It may just be a silly fantasy but it's a good one.

[LonestarSB]

13. I hope she does...

cause it will make for an easy Barak re election

[Frisbee]

15. She's mistaking...

the lunatic fringe with the majority.

[LynneSin]

16. Talk about delusions of grandeur - she tanked McCain in 2008

what dimwit would vote for her?

She'll do as well as Dan Quayle did in 1992

[WheelWalker]

34. Delusions

of adequacy.

[chollybocker]

17. I see her future replacing Vanna White

turning the letters on Wheel. She's very literary that way, dontchano.

[KamaAina]

24. They could even throw in the backwards 'R' from the Cyrillic alphabet

'cause she can probably see a Russian billboard from her house!

[skepticscott]

18. If she really thinks

she can go four more years without a whole slew of gaffes, scandals and outright corruption, she's even more deluded than I thought. She will be totally unelectable by the time 2012 comes around. She should settle for being governor of Moosylvania and be glad she's got that....

[jeff30997]

19. Yeah,and I plan to be the first man to walk on Mars...

But it ain't gonna happen either.

[mreilly]

20. Can't wait! She'll guarantee eight years of President Obama

Although I'm reluctant to deal with or even think about the 2012 election; yeah, we saw it coming. Little Miss Sarah has decided she's not only qualified to be VP, but perfectly qualified to be President for that matter. Will she spend the next four years studying economics and foreign policy, learning about domestic issues, focusing on political science and diplomacy, or building negotiation skills? Of course not. She'll parade around thumping her Bible and waving her guns making a complete ass of herself, hoping that the 29-percenters (the segment of the population that still has their noses planted between Bush's butt cheeks and thinks Palin is just wonderful because she's just like them, something worthy of shudder) will somehow morph into 51-percenters. All the while refusing to give press conferences or engage in hard-hitting interviews because someone might be "mean" to her or not show her the "deference" she somehow feels she deserves, despite being an incompetent, hypocritical idiot totally devoid of ethics or class.

That's what we want, frankly. Dole was a joke candidate when he ran against Clinton in 1996 - we had a perfectly competent, intelligent President who was doing a good job running the country, and despite his WWII service and decades in the Senate Dole turned out to be a wisp of nothing on election day, 1996. Little Miss Sarah is going to guarantee Obama brings in at least 400 electoral college votes should the GOP actually, miraculously, amazingly be stupid enough to nominate her.

I think there's some good signs already that this sorry excuse for a political party might do just that and pin all their hopes on this uneducated piece of trash. Already they're wrapping themselves in a firm blanket of delusion by beginning to chant that they lost the elections this year because they weren't conservative enough, they lost sight of their ideology, they didn't suck up to and pamper the rich enough, they didn't wave the flag enough, they didn't screech about socialists and communists loudly enough, etc. Not a moment's thought in their little heads that "Gee, maybe the fact we've acted like a complete bunch of dishonest assholes has something to do with the fact we're being swept out the door by the American voters."

Good. I don't want them to learn. I want them to keep losing, and losing, and losing. I want them as far away from the White House and Congress as, well, Alaska. They've proven they're not fit to lead, not fit to participate, not even fit to think. I want the Republicans sadly peering into the playground from outside the fence, wondering why they're not welcome. Wearing filthy rags and unchanged, stinking diapers.

While I suspect Mitt Romney will convert to Christianity in order to make another run for the White House (because after all he will say and do anything to please the voters) and this could earn him the nomination, I'll be rooting for Little Miss Sarah, so long as I don't have to actually read about her latest embarrassingly stupid comments or misstatements.

[L. Coyote]

21. HA HA! Not very creative way to spin "not qualified to be VP!" HA HA! n/t

[Phred42]

22. The 'real' repugs will eat her aliive

and not in a good way

[Crowman1979]

23. By that time, she'll still be in federal prison.

Once Ted Stevens spills the beans on her to get a lighter sentence.

[Dem2theMax]

25. I REALLY like the way you think.

[verges]

27. Let's hope he spills this week. nt

[Historic NY]

26. I'd vote for Mr. Potato(e) first & he served as VP....

wonder why he nevertreid to run.

[NAO]

28. Conservative Christians will blame McCain for Palin's Loss

And they will rally to support her in 2012.

They were already planning to petition God to "smite" McCain after he was elected so Palin could become President.

They never liked McCain, and many were saying that they were not even going to vote this year. Palin changed that and excited them. Republican strategists know this, and Palin is at the top of the short list for 2012.

[Canuckistanian]

29. "eyeing"? No, she's CRAWLING toward it on her hands and knees

The white flag has been waved.

[Lorien]

30. Megalomanic. n/t

[Raschel]

31. "Naught"? Who says naught? What a phony!! n/t

[WhiteTara]

32. sorry for them! n/t

[tanyev]

35. Wow. I said early on that she would end up back-stabbing McCain,

but even I figured she would until after the election or, God forbid, the inauguration.

[AlphaCentauri]

36. Palin - Joe The Plumber 2012

[Javaman]

37. hey more power to her!!!

she will drag along all the lunatics from the right wing with her. I see her as the new ross perot.

anyone with a brain will see she's a complete loon.

once the repuke party kicks here under the bus, gone will be the handlers, gone will be the spin masters, gone will be the team of makeup artists, wardrobe cheats and general mortar and spackle crew, gone will be the "speech" writers, gone will be the tutors, gone will be the few repukes with brains. She will be left to flounder on the extreme right with all the fundies she can eat daily.

If there ever was a side show that will be worthy of a reality show, it will be the limp dick rise of failin palin as she slides, no doubt, further and further into the insanity of the ultra right wing bizarro fundie dominionist right.

I see her has the propped up talking head of these lunatics. Lyndon Larouche anyone? However, I think by 2012, she will be so far out into the right wing netherlands, that she will make Larouche look like a UT Berkeley pot smoking hippy professor straight out of 1968.

expect her to require all clicking of heels and straight armed salutes at all her rallies.

[Haole Girl]

38. ROFL

Is this a joke?

She truly is clueless, to the end, isn't she?

[noonwitch]

39. If McCain loses, and the party blames her for it, she won't be nominated

it looks like she's going to be the scapegoat, so far, but that could change.

[yellowcanine]

40. She can see 2012 from her front porch in Alaska!

Someone had to say it.

[Lorentz]

41. She got her taste of the national spotlight and wants more.

Little does she realize that she never had what it takes to get there on her own. This has about as much potential as a Dan Quayle -- or rather, Jack Kemp -- presidential run.

She'll be a has-been within a year.

[Zorra]

42. She'll get about as far as her intellectual counterpart, Katherine Harris, got

in her Senatorial bid.

Caribou Barbie is an ignorant, shallow, shrill, annoying, egomaniacal, and corrupt little criminal.

[cobalt1999]

43. Her 15 minutes are almost up already.

It would be like Dan Quayle trying to run against Clinton.