Palin Worries Presidency Might 'Shackle' Her
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hinted Tuesday that she might not run in 2012 because the presidency could be "too shackling."
"For logistical reasons, though, yes, certainly, decisions have to be made," she told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren.
"I'm going to keep repeating, though, Greta, through my process of decision-making with my family and with my close friends as to whether I should throw my name in the hat for the GOP nomination or not for 2012 -- is a title worth it? Does a title shackle a person? Are they -- someone like me, who's a maverick -- you know, I do go rogue and I call it like I see it."
She added: "Somebody like me -- is a title and is a campaign too shackling? Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of a box, not allowing handlers to shape me and to force my message to be what donors or what contributors or what political pundits want it to be? Does a title take away my freedom to call it like I see it and to affect positive change that we need in this country? That's the biggest contemplation piece in my process."
The former Alaska governor also had words of praise for Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, who she called "Herb."
"Take Herb Cain," she said "Look at why he's doing so well right now. He's, I guess you could say, with all due respect, the flavor of the week because Herb Cain is the one up there who doesn't look like he's part of that permanent political class."
Palin has about a month to make up her mind before Florida's Oct. 31 filing deadline for the Republican primary.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Herb Caen - pronounced the same - was a Pulitzer-winning San Francisco newspaper columnist who died in 1997. Palin probably confused Herman Cain with Herb because she reads all newspapers with a great appreciation.
In other words, "I want the perqs, not the responsibility."
In other words, she wants welfare.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
. . . when she said, "the media, sometimes they don't do their homework."
Wait, I think I broke a rib.
Afterall, it's probably much harder to quit in the middle of the a presidential term and still sucker slobbering teabaggers to continue to worship you.
All mavericky again, like her mentor, McGrumpy.
So mavericky, she can't finish her term as AK gov. So mavericky, she needs to keep up the pretense of 'maybe' running for pres to get more money for free, like welfare, only worse, because I'm sure a lot of the 'little people' who are giving her money already paid taxes, so they're already supporting the official welfare system. She has to cyberbeg and drive a bus around with her hand out, because shew doesn't qualify for welfare.
What a lazy cow. (sorry cows)
me-oww!
OK first of all the office of POTUS is a whole hell of a lot more than 'a title.' Second you have about as much chance of ever holding that title as my dog.
is running for president??
GOP talking points: all sound and fury signifying nothing.
That's 35 in dog years.
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isn't a teapublican.
me-oww!
I always get a laugh when she extends her sentences to sound smart by adding filler words. In a 25 word sentence from Palin you get rid of ten words and it would mean exactly the same thing. Which usually has no meaning at all.
The only shackling she's worried about is her ability to make another million from the morons willing to buy her books and listen to her speak. Just come out with a clothing line and STFU you inbreed moron.
is intended to be a factual statement
Cashing in royally manipulating the sheer stupidity and fears of ignoramuses, getting rich off of their terminal dumbness, blind racist hatred leaving them with less money and higher blood pressure.
Sara Palin running for President is akin to a prostitute getting a real job.
... to a prostitute becoming Queen of England.
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...in the course of the 14 minute segment. Greta did not correct her once.
Remember in "Dumb and Dumber" when they ask the hit man if he'd like to hear "the most annoying sound in the world"?
A cinematic classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrbKn5boVPA
Shorter Palin: "I am big, it's the Presidency that got small."
The money is running out. Either she gets her grifting back on track, or she has to go back to blowing athletes.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
HahahaahaahH! What a monster.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
entrants run for a title. This woman is beyond stupid.
On a side note, I don't believe she said shackling; it sounded like shackley to me. Also to Chris Matthews and Andrew Sullivan.
midnight October 1st. You mean I have to reset it for November 1st?
Janek
No, October 1st should do it. She's out of gas and running on fumes (breathe deep, you can smell them).
Her tits and her relevancy are both sagging.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Yeah, the thrill is gone. She winked.... noth'n. She said "You Betch'a" and all I heard was "You Bitch" She still says words and things and stuff, I guess. I don't care anymore.
Good grief, what a flaming nincompoop lightweight this woman is, yet she still has a weird little fanatical constituency in the Republican Party. By the way, anyone notice her repeated use of the term "working class"? I have it on good authority from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck that that's a Communist term.
She wouldn't last ten minutes in the White House. The second she realized she didn't get to do whatever she wanted, she couldn't mouth off every second of the day, she'd have to take advice and give in about 75% percent of the time...she'd quit. Just like that. She's an attention whore, not a politician. What she wants is to be QUEEN.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
She'll have to battle Marcus Bachmann for the "title" of QUEEN.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Yeah... people might expect what she says one day to have something to do with whatever inane thing she said the day before. I can see how that might be a bit restrictive for her.
Herb Caen wrote a daily column for fifty-eight years.
Fifty. Eight. Years.
I was honored on several occasions to get a mention by Mr. Caen, which was always accompanied by a handwritten note of thanks for whatever I had provided him.
Herb Caen exemplified everything Palin is not, with an emphasis on not quitting, and on graciousness to those who helped him do what he did.
Oh, she meant Herman?
Never mind.
I enjoyed his column every day. He and his vitamin V!
(vodka)
Religion will be the downfall of Humanity.
if palin can't make money on it, it's not worth it to her.
or if she can't pimp out her family for prostitution then
it's meaningless to her.
...Pretends she's relevant, to keep the gravy train rolling and plug her book, hinting that being POTUS would be too confining, AKA real work. Also, the mere pittance earned is chicken shit money compared to what she can scrounge from her drooling followers by tooling around the country with a begging bowl.
The only place she should be shackled is in the deepest, darkest, most rat infested, sewage flooded dungeon of the Bastille.
And I'm being NICE about it!
$now $nooki run over by her own bus.
Yup, that'd do it for me.
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
- watchdog -
Snow Snooki, that is the best!!
Of course the harpy can't let a slight go past so she even throws Fox News under the bus. Heh heh, dumb Republicans and that doofus McCain created this Frankenstein and now she's mowin' em all down. I'm tempted to send some Benjamins to her Pac coz, really, I don't want the laughs to end.
Run Sara run!!
There once was a grifter named Palin,
Whose poll numbers proved she was failin',
They called her a turd,
She wasn't good on her word,
On her next job you know she'll be bailin.
Nicely done.
I really don't mean to sound bitter
But I've had enough of this quitter
It's reached the point where
To ask her, it's fair
Please shit or get off of the shitter
the flavor of the week because Herb Cain is the one up there who doesn't look like he's part of that permanent political class."
Blow the dog whistle, Sarah. Herman Cain is NEAR!!
I guess if someone is near, they don't meet your political standards but certainly qualify for a good tumble with you.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Why the hell did she run for Vice President in 2008, if she so dislikes being 'shackled' by campaigning for elected office??
It's not the same thing as being POTUS, but she certainly knew she could easily succeed McCain as president.
She actually dares to say: "this is the biggest contemplation piece in my process" (who the fuck talks like that after junior high school?). In other words, it's not about what she stands for, it's all about HOW I FEEL.
What a ditz. What a flake. What a fucking loser.
"Somebody like me -- is a title and is a campaign too shackling? Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of a box, not allowing handlers to shape me and to force my message to be what donors or what contributors or what political pundits want it to be? Does a title take away my freedom to call it like I see it and to affect positive change that we need in this country? That's the biggest contemplation piece in my process."
OMG!!! WOW!!! Is this women self centered or what? Does she think before opening mouth. "Does a title take away my freedom to call it like I see it and to affect positive change that we need in this country? I just love this positive change thingee, don't you? Now answer me this pilgrim? WTF is she talking about? Exactly what POSiTIVE CHANGE has she been responsible for? Can anybody remember anything positive she has done in public life? How about in her private life? I guess the title of Governor was too shackling for her to complete he first term in office. After all she figured there were a lot more money to be made talking about what she wanted to do rather than actually doing it.
Just remember that there is no cure for the stupid.
As I am so fond of saying. If you removed Sarah Palin's brain from her skull and placed it on the straight edge of a razor blade it would resemble a BB rolling down an eight lane freeway.
Or that she's so low she could walk under a snake while wearing a ten-gallon hat.
Damn... been in Texas entirely too long... lol
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
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Sarah is desperate now that her fan base knows she's gone "Mandingleberry". Something like that. You know what she meant.
Good Lawd. Even the GOP knows she's toxic.
"Even if 50 million people say a stupid thing - it is still a stupid thing." - Anatole France
It's been a long 15 minutes for her, but, it's almost over.
She probably, in her delusional mind, believes that someone will ask her to on the ticket as VP if she doesn't run.
Imagine. If NJ Gov. Crisp Crispy runs and then recruits her for VP we could have bumper stickers that say:
Cripsy/Quiter 2012.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Sarah is a free spirit like a fart in the wind.
Made me swallow my gum!
The whining, teabagging bimbo isn't running because she's terrified to find out just how badly she is disliked and would lose. She doesn't have a chance in hell of ever being Prez.
Same reason she won't sue Joe McGuinness - there would be way too many questions she's HAVE to answer and that'll never happen. Maybe now, the 'ex-first dud' can make a clean get-away and rid himself of this woman - but, then, there's all that money that keeps on pouring in - although there will be a sharp decline now that she's had her vacations, been to Iowa to tease the people there and she can settle in on her property in Arizona and bedevil the people there.
... How come NOBODY ask me :-(
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
Isn't it telling that Sarah Palin thinks of the presidency as a "title" - like a beauty pageant title. I contend that it's because she is not attracted to the responsibilities of the office, but rather the trappings of the title. Remember, this is the woman who resigned two offices in Alaska mid way through her terms!
Palin surely became aware of the great, Pulitzer Prize winner Herb Caen while pursuing her "journalism degree".
Caen died maybe 15 years ago. He will ever remain an institution in San Francisco (or at least until dinosaurs like me die off). Even then, historians will mine his work forever.
He made Walter Winchell look like a college wannabee. And he owned San Francisco.
Notice how "Faux News journalist" Greta let her repeat that error? That, or Greta thinks Herman Cain's first name is Herb too.
I really am too stupid to be in government, uh huh, uh huh!
Muzzled would be better.
she is shackled to the limelight and stupity -
isnt that enough
roger allen
Are they -- someone like me, who's a maverick -- you know, I do go rogue and I call it like I see it."
I almost threw up in my trashcan when I read this.
Typically, everyone has an idea as to their limitations............evidently, this woman has no clue. She actually thinks she is qualified to be the POTUS..............amazing. In some ways, it kind of makes you feel sorry for her..............kind of like the sorrow you feel when you see a deer laying on the side of the road.
She can't quit halfway through to make more money. Poor baby.
This proves again that Sara is all cowboy hat and no cattle.
I've wondered what excuses she'd come up with not to run, not to run, knowing she'd be questioned at debates (she wouldn't go, would have her toadies tweeting her answers for her, since she known for NOT be able to answer debate questions. Most shocking and surprising in the above excuses - SHE HAS CLOSE FRIENDS? How could anyone be that desperate to have a friend? Anyway, Greta will be staying in touch - you betcha - she 'loves' the lunatic, quitter,1/2 term AK gov., just loves her and will listen to any crap she's spouting from 'Rupie's/Rog's' scandall channel. Provides savage amusement for us who need a few laughs at the end of the day.
Nudge nudge, say no more!
That's why I'm not running either.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Being President sounds groovy but it's too much like WORK.
Sounds like Glenn Rice already did shackle her ass. What it must be like to be a millionaire now like her. She's prolly smarter than all of us, if she is just playing the money game.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Burn in hell McCain for giving this to the world.
the countdown to her Playboy photo shoot begins the second she announces she will not seek the nomination to the title of president of the united states.
Everyday in downtown Chicago I see women who have everything superior to this plain Jane with a fucked up attitude.
It must be a White guy's thing because I don't see jack shit in this overrated bitch.
Actually, it's an old white guy's thing. That makes it even more pathetic.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
You know, some of her comments about having to censor oneself so dramatically in order to win the presidency could amount to genuine concerns.
But those concerns are probably not in her head.
This is how she thinks of the presidency? She's running for a title? Not a job position (arguably the most powerful job position in human history), but a title?
This really says it all. She's trying to decide not whether to run for President of the United States, but whether to run for Miss America. This histrionic witch is not just absurd, but obscene.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Palin is out in the cold for good now, and she knows it.
Palin has had plenty of opportunities to step up to the plate and declare her candidacy. But she lacks the intellect, the work ethic, and the intestinal fortitude for a serious campaign ... and she knows it.
So instead she opts for the world of "make believe" where she can pretend that she is a candidate, rake in millions of dollars (via donations, book sales, and speaking engagements), bask in the media spotlight, give shallow, snarky speeches and interviews, and evade any true responsibilities.
she's just another yahoo in town with a gun...
to the most powerful position on earth when there might be something better down the road? You have to respect that ambition and foresight.
Or maybe it is the $400,000 per year salary.
I feel bad for "W". Palin was his best chance to break the vacation record he set.
"When you're president -- as opposed the head of a private equity firm -- your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot." - President Barack Obama
And, she's from my hometown! Still don't care. Stop acknowledging the twit.
The United States aspires to democracy, but no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.
Sarah, we don't want you shackled.
A simple STRAITJACKET will do.
Charles Almon
Sarah really should be doing these segments
in a big furry Mad Bomber hat with the earlaps
down. Yah, you betchcha!
Charles Almon
Thank you.
Sarah Palin was a pure fabrication of the Fox not-News Network. They kept her in the public eye, the promoted her, they provided her with endless lame interview-commercials and, they paid her millions.
Consider the tens of millions of dollars paid out by Fox not-News, to create the illusion of Sarah Palin and it is all going down the tubes, one big burn out failure.
Is the real story here, not the collapse of Palin but the waning power of Fox not-News.
Seems like throwing stones is easier on the half-term faux candidate. She doesn't want to be held accountable when she says dumb things. The example Sarah cited of herself "having dinner" with the Netanyahu as a citizen with no legislative power to affect change was laughable. Her star fades faster everyday. Farewell imo to the politico Snookie.
Now that momma monkey has told cluster-fox and her slobbering, drooling Klan of Cuckoo that she can't be bothered with THEIR aspirations, but she does need some more cash, she's gonna stay out of the formal race so she and Gretter's hubby can start their own campaign!!!
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In Texas there is an expression for people like her, it is called being "all hat and no cattle".
"A noisy cow gives little milk." Sums up Sarah for me.
Janek
"Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of a box, not allowing handlers to shape me and to force my message to be what donors or what contributors or what political pundits want it to be?"
ah! you admit there IS a problem with money for favours then?
"too shackling."
She'd quit if that happened. She's done it before.
far left loon >.<
Is that the best you can come up with. Anyone watch RM when she interviewed McCain's former campaign managers, Nicole Wallace (think that's her name) and the other big bald guy? Ms. Wallace has just come out with a novel in which the main character makes it all the way to the WH before low and behold, people finally figure out she's mentally ill. Guess who she based the character on? The other guy admitted she was never properly vetted for vp, basically saying she is unqualified to be president, which should be the number one criteria when choosing a vp. I've said for years Sarah has some sort of mental illness. At the very least, she has a serious character disorder (i.e., narcissistic, borderline) . She may be bipolar. She could have both. It's a terrible reflection on McCain, not to mention people who voted for McCain, thereby allowing her so close to the WH.
During McCain's campaign, they acted like SP was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Wallace defended her saying sure Palin can make those executive decisions, nobody needs to interview her. Trust us. So it's a little late for them to be badmouthing Wasilla Rose. They should have quit the campaign. She could have been VP with their help. Still frightening to think about.
Janek
Shackling? Would that be Alaskan Governorship type shackling?
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If our useless, corporate media had any integrity at all, they would have written off Palin years ago. But No. Instead, they follow her around, hanging on her every word like some pathetic 8 year old with a crush on his teacher. She's playing been playing members of our elite media like a cheap fiddle, and the only ones who don't realize it are them. Memo to FOX: Jeez guys, can you possibly find other assignments for Greta Van Susteren? I mean this "All Sarah, All the Time" has gotta be getting old, even for the typical FOX News dimwit viewer.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
I'm sure she didn't have a problem with shackling when Glenn Rice did it. Isn't that right, Sarahkins? By the way, it's HERMAN Cain, not Herb. Jesus Christ, she can't even prep for a routine sit down with Greta on FOX!
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
she would evenutally go away. What relevance is this woman anymore?
Freedom Isn't Free, So Stop Whining And Pay Your Taxes.
in the fact-based world on the best days it's called "loose cannon".
Oh BS Sarah, you're not doing it because it'd be a pay cut..
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