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Gingrich: Palin's still got a shot

Posted: Monday, July 13, 2009 5:09 PM by Domenico Montanaro
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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
Here's one we missed Friday evening, but came across perusing Newt Gingrich's Twitter feed this afternoon...

As we, at First Read, have also argued, Gingrich said he thinks Sarah Palin still has a legitimate shot at the 2012 nomination.

He was asked on audio on his Web site, "If you decided to run for president in 2012, would you be open to having Sarah Palin as your running mate?"

Gingrich replied: "Well, I think it's important to remember that Gov. Palin may well be the nominee. There are lots and lots of Republicans who like her. And she's now going to be able to campaign full time for the next-- almost three and a quarter years. And so, who knows what's going to happen. I think it's a long way off, but I think she has a very major role to play in the party. And I wouldn't rule her out for either the first or second slot."

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I'm sure he WOULD like to have her as a running mate.  Emphasis on mate.  Unless she runs.  

 
I'm not ready to say whether or not Sarah Palin is ready to be president--that's a determination yet to be made over time.  But I am ready to say that the media's and liberal's obsession with her and disdain for her is very telling.  Could it be that those obsessed with large, suffocating gov't which over involves itself in the citizen's lives is threatened by someone who promotes smaller gov't?  Could it be that the biased media and radical feminist movement who go out of their ways to protect the image of the pro-abortion movement while finding any negative story they can of the pro-life movement are threatened by a beautiful and successful female governor who both lives and proclaims a pro-life message and who precious baby Trig is the glowing testament that every life matters and is worth protecting?
FR--Gingrich replied: "Well, I think it's important to remember that Gov. Palin may well be the nominee. There are lots and lots of Republicans who like her. And she's now going to be able to campaign full time for the next-- almost three and a quarter years. And so, who knows what's going to happen. I think it's a long way off, but I think she has a very major role to play in the party. And I wouldn't rule her out for either the first or second slot."
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Just as he and Limbaugh would have it. HA, ha, ha. They gave her orders and she resigned from office. This is rich indeed! Ha, ha, ha, ha. You damn right she has a major part to play, so say's your fearless leader Rush. I want to see her make a run for the office. It's going to be fun watching her make a "complete" ass out of them.

P.S. Still not enough time to get her more schooling...
You don't raise 700k and not give a hoot about running for president. Palin is cold, calculating...and very much a 2012 candidate.

Both Palin and Sanford are still loved by the GOP base, who don't care about things like ethics charges, lunacy or adultery in their heroes.

http://www.political-buzz.com/
Dead fish!
End of error - 1.20.2013
Romney, Gingrich, Palin, the homeless bum, it doesn't matter, they're all better then Obie.
Let us all(witch doctors included) pray that Sarah is the 2012 GOP nominee.
When the best Obama can do is say "The jobs are coming next year", then sure, anybody has got a chance to beat him in 2012.
Not many articles around here about Obama's trip to Russia. It was a disaster, so it's not a surpise it isn't talked about by his faithful supporters.
I'm a Republican, and even though I was stoked when McCain selected her, yet what most fail to realize, is that McCain HAD to pick someone with conservative credentials. At the time, my conservative friends and I were disappointed in McCain coming out for "cap and trade" regulations and other stuff dear to Democrats hearts. So while Obama moved to the center after winning the nomination, McCain moved to the right. McCain HAD to move to the right to get conservatives on board willing to door-knock.

Very few politicians survive the faux pau that was Palin during the campaign to run for any office above which they currently hold. The Peter Principle applies.

Neither Goldwater, nor Reagan, nor Kennedy, nor Carter, nor Clinton screwed up to the degree that Sarah did during the "nightmare" that was the McCain campaign of 2008 before they sought national public office.

And with that said, I still feel that Sarah was/is a threat to the left. She breaks the mold of what a feminist is. Feminists can also be conservative.

She will go down in history as being the first woman on the Republican ticket, as Vice-President. No small feat.
America is getting tired of the Democrats and the liberal medias behavior. They showed their real colors and their class (as in none) for how they treated Palin. That will come back on them, you'betcha.
If Sarahcuda gets the nom in 2012 (or ever) we will prove, once and forever that America is a nation of morons.
Let her campaign. It won't be long before we see the stampede out of the Republican party. No one will want to be associated with that lame brain. The gift that keeps on giving.
Now the White House took $18 million to update the recovery.gov website. $18 million. For a website used to track how your money is being wasted. And then you wonder why many people fear for the country.
Yeah, she does.  At a moose.  And she'll miss that as well.
Gingrich must be one of a few in the Republican Party that actually does see a chance for Sarah Palin. She quit as Mayor of Wasilla, She quit as Lt. Gov. and now she quit as Gov. of Alaska. Would she stay the course as Pres. or VP. If she can't stand the heat thus far and gets out of each kitchen when it gets too hot she doesn't even need to get near the National Kitchen as she'g really feel some heat.

I doubt she would last a year as either Pres or VP as thin skined as she is.
Run Sarah, run! It will be so fun watching the republicans self destruct (again)!

Lots of republicans may like her but independents don't. And without the independent vote, she doesn't have a chance.

And since the economy will be recovered and we will have health care reform, the energy bill, and many other progressive ideas underway, the republicans aren't going to do well.
To all those absolutely ill of Mika B. pandering to the right, Palin,  her brother & Joe S.  - RAISE THEIR HANDS! Thought so.  I thought she was a woman of intelligence....but now it's all about glamour, posing and voting with her.....womanhood. Poor Mika.
Really?
Dems and Repubs- How do you reconcile the fact that you generally believe in going to foreign countries to fight for/support freedom, but take every possible chance in this country to remove it?

Palin will be the ultimate opponent of freedom. All in the name of supporting our judeo-christian values, of course.

Please do what you can to not let her anywhere near a public office ever again.

If you support her, please stop saying you love the freedom of this country. Or at least qualify it to say that you enjoy the freedom to do what you are permitted to do by your overlords.  
From an earlier post- It's nice that conservatives are always so fair minded.

Hand Waving Specialist:
Do you really think that one person in the office can be held responsible for our nations problems?  What about the Senate?  What about Congress?  You'll have to do allot more research and find the authors of legislation.  - to ca
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That is priceless. How many people on this site blame George Bush for everything down to the spoiled milk in their fridge?  Now common sense and reason kick in.
And here I thought Gingrich was the "intellectual" of the Republican party.  Unless Henry Higgins gets ahold of her, and quickly, Palin doesn't have a prayer of winning the 2012 nomination.    

"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. Henry, by George, she's got it! Now once again, where does it rain?"


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