Sarah Palin Appears To Be Gearing Up For 2012 Presidential Run

by Brea Tremblay | 1:29 pm, September 17th, 2010

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The Daily Beast’s Shushannah Walshe is reporting that Sarah Palin and her team are making definitive steps toward a 2012 Presidential run.

Through Palin has resisted making concrete statements about her intentions, the opinions of those closest to her are a good indicator. Those involved in her crew, SarahPAC, are a loyal bunch and no one talks to the press without the approval of the boss. Her top aide Rebecca Mansour says, “She respects her team and her team respects her and we’ve learned that she knows what she’s doing.” A former 2008 staffer put it more bluntly, “she is attracted to people who are going to take a bullet for her because she really will ask you to one day.”

Last April, Palin’s SarahPAC met at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference to plan their strategy for the Midterm elections and beyond, reports Walshe. One of the issues discussed was the possible hiring of a communications director. At the time, the team decided against it, instead continuing to rely on Twitter and Facebook, supplemented by Palin’s contract with Fox News. More recently, the team has started releasing their own press releases. Another issue discussed was the management of endorsements.

Palin’s picks have done well during primary season: Joe Miller in Alaska, Sharron Angle in Nevada, and of course, Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. With each victory, Palin comes closer to creating the network of powerful allies to support a Presidential run and governance. When asked if that was Palin’s intention, Mansour responded, “bingo.”

Mansour did remain coy about her boss’ Presidential aspirations, only saying, “One of the things I have learned about her is her instincts are really good.”

A former aide believes that Team Palin is certainly planning a campaign, commenting:

“It has become very apparent to everyone on her staff that she is preparing to run for president. The staff is now working. They are writing speeches, preparing talking points, picking congressmen to endorse all under the umbrella of what you would do two years out before running for president and that’s their understanding. It’s a 2012 ball game, and they should plan on that basis.”

Team Palin has their work cut out for them. According to an August a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, nearly 60% of the country does not think she has the ability to be an effective President.

Sarah Palin, The Daily Beast

Big Eddie

A 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll ? About as good as a Dailykos / Huffington Enquirer poll .
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

I agree, I am surprised the # was so low.
puck30

Appears…….A former aide…….A former 2008 staffer…….time to come out of the woods Brea.
SpineCrusher

Sweet!!

She’ll trounce all the republican’t candidates!!
The Real Royal King

You go girl!
SpineCrusher

fitting in with the current republican’t strategy, I have a perfect slogon for her campaign

YES WE CAN’T!
BR

SpineCrusher said:
fitting in with the current republican’t strategy, I have a perfect slogon for her campaign YES WE CAN’T!

Or as Obama’s supporters (or former) are saying, “NO WE DIDNT!!!!!!”
kit9

Brea, I’m sure you’re a perfectly nice person but there is no chance that Palin is gearing up for a presidential run. If you’d followed Palin since the last election-she’s never said she wants tor run. In fact she’s repeatedly said she wasn’t. The closest she ever got and that was after much hounding was something wishy washy like, ‘can’t rule anything out’. Can’t rule anything out, like flying monkeys. She’s not running, not now, probably not ever. But, she’s realized the dopey press goes crazy over literally every time she blows her nose which brings constant attention for her various actual projects so she now sort of plays along. But, despite what many say, she’s not dumb. She knows she can’t win and she knows a failure-which her attempted candidacy would surly be would grind to a stop all media interest in her. She tried being honest-saying she wasn’t running-that didn’t work so now she’s happy to let the dumber members of the press continue to, well, publish articles like this.
The_Reasonable_Lib

HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bugspot1

that will make the value of this go up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9r4R4xyYg
MediaWhore

This is a Democratic dream come true. You would think conservatives had learned their lesson about electing retards after the GWB fiasco.

Please please please….run Sarah run!!!
no-touchy-touchy

MediaWhore said:
This is a Democratic dream come true. You would think conservatives had learned their lesson about electing retards after the GWB fiasco.

Please please please….run Sarah run!!!

You Betcha
m

I can’t wait for Sarah Palin to run! IT’S GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!!
Newsjunky

Watching her try to hide from the press while winning a general election would be worth the price of admission alone. She’s a coward and a quitter. And, thankfully, unelectable, which is why I hope and pray she runs. What fun that will be…
zumpano

She is NOT going to run for president.

Do you honestly think she would subject herself to things like:

A. Real Debates? First, the GOP primary debates would eat her alive. You think of those dues who really want to be president are just going to lie still and let Palin spout her word salad?

B. Interviews not with Newscorp? You cannot run for Prez and only talk to a small cable channel and Wall St Journal.

C. Work? Campaigning for president is hard (pssst, the job is HARDER). She’ll have a lot more decisions and things she’d have to decide for herself; not just show up with the red meat like she did when she was running for Vice.

I could go on, but really, THINK ABOUT IT.

But, if she decides to run: the BLOODBATH that will be the GOP primaries will make for some GREAT COMEDY.