Sarah Palin Hints That She Might Be Available, in a Pinch

Half-governor giddy with possibility

WingnutsFebruary 2012 • Views: 25,964

How much more awesome can one presidential campaign get?

Now Sarah Palin is hinting around that if, you know, it comes down to, like, a brokered convention or whatever? She might be available. That is, if nobody else is into it.

I’m all for it. Imagine the debates.

BOLLING: Governor, a lot of people are saying it can’t happen. I don’t necessarily agree with them. If one of the nominees, one of the GOPers, doesn’t get enough delegates, it could go the a brokered convention.

If it does get to that and someone said, Governor, would you be interested, would you be interested?

PALIN: Well, for one, I think that it could get to that. And I — you know, if it had to — if it had to be kind of closed up today, the whole nominating process, then we would be looking at a brokered convention.

I mean nobody is quite there yet. So I think that months from now, if that’s the case, then, you know, all bets are off as to who it will be willing to offer themselves up in the name of service to their country. I would — I would do whatever I could to help.

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51 comments

freetoken Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:20:44pm

Oh, how they don't like Tofu.

engineer cat Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:21:35pm

i ain't a-gonna pinch that

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:23:16pm

re: #1 freetoken

Oh, how they don't like Tofu.

Hey!

Targetpractice Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:23:28pm

A Palin nomination would be like manna from heaven for Obama.

Vicious Michigan Union Thug Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:24:14pm

They could nominate me.

aagcobb Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:24:33pm

I definitely haven't been good enough to deserve Palin as the GOP presidential nominee.

engineer cat Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:25:00pm

the way things are going, the candidate that's surging by the time of the convention will either be millard fillmore or charlie the tuna

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:26:20pm

PLEASE RUN

aagcobb Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:26:35pm

re: #7 engineer cat

the way things are going, the candidate that's surging by the time of the convention will either be millard fillmore or charlie the tuna

Getting the Base to accept Romney as the nominee has been like getting a kid to swallow a spoonful of castor oil.

jaunte Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:26:48pm

..I think that months from now, if that’s the case, then, you know, all bets are off as to who it will be willing to offer themselves up in the name of service to their country. I would — I would do whatever I could to help...

hahahahahahahahha

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:27:25pm

OT Oddity: Megadeth frontman backs Rick Santorum

"You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I'm hoping that if it does come down to it, we'll see a Republican in the White House... and that it's Rick Santorum."

I don't even...

Lidane Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:27:38pm

re: #6 SantorumSurging

I definitely haven't been good enough to deserve Palin as the GOP presidential nominee.

None of us have, which is why we might have to settle for Santorum. He'd still be a hilariously bad candidate, but Caribou Barbie would reach new heights of incompetence if she was the nominee.

jaunte Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:27:46pm

What a noble, self-sacrificing offer.

Stanghazi Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:28:08pm

SarahPac needs funds.

Targetpractice Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:28:19pm

But that really would be the biggest joke of this year, wouldn't it? That Palin never had to campaign, never had to run against the rest of the Peanut Gallery, and would still get the nomination at the convention. The party's albatross crowned king for all to see.

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:28:53pm

re: #14 Grifter USA

SarahPac needs funds.

TAWWD!!!!! FETCH ME MORE SMOKES

Lidane Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:28:59pm

re: #11 Slumbering Behemoth

Not that odd. A lot of metal fans and performers are fairly wingnutty, high testosterone types. I'm not surprised at all.

jaunte Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:30:08pm

Tony Joe White to pen campaign theme, "Word Salad Sarah."

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:30:22pm

re: #10 jaunte

She was super serial about going back to work for the people of Alaska back in '08.

Youtube Video

PhillyPretzel Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:31:15pm

On again, off again is on again.

Stanghazi Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:32:10pm

re: #15 Targetpractice

But that really would be the biggest joke of this year, wouldn't it? That Palin never had to campaign, never had to run against the rest of the Peanut Gallery, and would still get the nomination at the convention. The party's albatross crowned king for all to see.

No debates except for the multi-rehearsed, where she will not answer one question.

Really, this could be good.

Ego wins over basic (and I emphasize) basic intellect.

Whoo whee.

The anti Palin blogs are gonna really gear up!

jaunte Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:32:36pm

re: #19 Slumbering Behemoth

That was before Pat Robertson discovered Obama is Satan.

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:32:37pm

re: #17 Lidane

Not that odd. A lot of metal fans and performers are fairly wingnutty, high testosterone types. I'm not surprised at all.

Since when? I can think of (now) Mustaine and Nugent, that's it. Anyone else you know of that I'm not aware of?

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:33:34pm

re: #23 Slumbering Behemoth

Since when? I can think of (now) Mustaine and Nugent, that's it. Anyone else you know of that I'm not aware of?

Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke fled to Iceland to escape the apocalypse

Shiplord Kirel Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:33:59pm

Their only chance is that Obama will step down and the Dems will somehow nominate Harry Reid. Given the 2010 results, I'm not sure about even that.

aagcobb Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:34:01pm

At this point, I have to wonder if even Freepers can take her cockteasing seriously anymore.

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:34:08pm

re: #23 Slumbering Behemoth

Since when? I can think of (now) Mustaine and Nugent, that's it. Anyone else you know of that I'm not aware of?

Tripp Eisen is a crazy Ayn Rand libertarian pedophile

Mich-again Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:34:21pm

Ohh please can this happen. Summer TV is usually so boring. It would be like going to the circus every day if Sarah started a brouhaha leading up to the convention.

RealityBasedSteve Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:34:36pm

I can't wait to see what comes next. This will put the wing-nuttery into overdrive. I'm sure that they are wetting themselves over in FreepLand with this.

Please run Sarah, it's the least you can do for teasing us.

RBS

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:34:51pm

re: #24 windupbird is in the gravity well

re: #27 windupbird is in the gravity well

I'll take you're word for it. I am completely unfamiliar with both of those dudes.

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:35:13pm

re: #23 Slumbering Behemoth

Since when? I can think of (now) Mustaine and Nugent, that's it. Anyone else you know of that I'm not aware of?

Trey Azathoth is seriously into Tony Robbins, but I don't really consider that to be wingnutty

Stanghazi Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:36:07pm

Cock tease is maybe a bad way to put it, but I honestly think appropriate.

Targetpractice Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:36:44pm

Thing I can't imagine is who'd want to be tied to her as VP. Screw political suicide, that would be political seppuku.

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:37:07pm

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

re: #27 windupbird is in the gravity well

I'll take you're word for it. I am completely unfamiliar with both of those dudes.

I think the phenomenon is much bigger than metal, rock stars in general have big personalities, big opinions, and are disconnected from normal life and normal struggles, so their politics tend to be wild and zany

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:37:55pm

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

re: #27 windupbird is in the gravity well

I'll take you're word for it. I am completely unfamiliar with both of those dudes.

oh also, Scott Wino Weinrich is a truther/occultist, but really, I expect that from my conspiracy-doom-metal

Lidane Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:42:53pm

re: #23 Slumbering Behemoth

Since when? I can think of (now) Mustaine and Nugent, that's it. Anyone else you know of that I'm not aware of?

I'm talking about the fans in general. I've gone to metal sites and message boards and seen plenty of wingnuts around there. They're largely of the "Lirbrulz wanna take mah gunz and mah job!" variety, but they exist.

Political Atheist Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:44:44pm

LOL@GOP

*inhale deeply*

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:46:53pm

re: #37 Lidane

I've seen plenty of that in gaming forums as well, but I wouldn't consider it indicative of gamers as a whole.

BongCrodny Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:48:08pm

O, Noble Sarah!

Bubblehead II Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:54:30pm

Run Sarah run. You are the poison pill that will finally kill off the "modern" Republican Party.

aagcobb Wed, Feb 15, 2012 5:55:27pm

re: #41 Bubblehead II

Run Sarah run. You are the poison pill that will finally kill off the "modern" Republican Party.

If they got their wingnut queen, they sure couldn't blame the loss on her not being conservative enough.

Tigger2 Wed, Feb 15, 2012 6:13:20pm

She sank McCain when she was in the second seat, Just imagine how fast she would sink the GOP if she were the nomination.

Petero1818 Wed, Feb 15, 2012 6:32:51pm

I have been saying this all along. Palin knows that she could not compete effectively in a traditional primary. She could never go through that many debates and survive. Her only way in is maverick like. Parachute in at last minute on her so called laurels and conservative bona fides. Untested but with plenty of sound bites and enthusiasm. There is sufficient ambivalence towards all the other candidates that it could actually work. And if she failed to win the convention she has the ego protection to say that she was only answering the call and it was a long shot at best. Now competing against Obama, well that will make for great comedy.

Ming Wed, Feb 15, 2012 7:32:06pm

Palin will run only if she can convince herself that as President, she would be able to suppress all journalism about her.

When Joe McGinniss' book came out last year, Palin got the message loud and clear: when you run for such a very, very high office, The Real Truth About The Real You is almost impossible to keep hidden.

I think she's positioning herself for what Newt Gingrich has already promised her: a big role in a Republican administration. Maybe Secretary of Energy, or Secretary of the Interior. "Drill Baby Drill": 1 slogan covers both cabinet positions! It's a sign from God.

This is one time when I really hope I'm right. I still find it very disturbing that she got 46% of the vote in 2008, and that wasn't for Vice President of her high school class.

SidewaysQuark Wed, Feb 15, 2012 8:16:16pm

As hilarious as Sarah Palin being "brokered" into the nominee spot would be, it just ain't gonna happen.

I stand by my prediction that Romney will pull this off after a struggle. (Again, unless it doesn't happen, in which case I won't draw attention to the fact I predicted it, and will say 'look at the ones I got right'!)

Ojoe Wed, Feb 15, 2012 8:24:29pm

re: #46 SidewaysQuark

IMHO it might just well happen, and she could be the next president.

You never know, and we'll see I guess.

Certainly nothing looks predictable to me at this point.

Decider Wed, Feb 15, 2012 10:01:28pm

Eric Bolling is actually dumber than Palin. Fact!

Bulworth Thu, Feb 16, 2012 6:17:11am

I would — I would do whatever I could to help.

She actually could help. The Democrats. So yes, Sarah, please "do whatever" you "could to help."

labman57 Thu, Feb 16, 2012 6:34:06am

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.

But she's gotta keep up appearances, lest her foolish fan base come to their collective senses and recognize that Sarah only cares about the popular and financial success of Sarah.

So instead she has opted for the world of "make believe" where she can pretend that she is -- or might possibly, perhaps, one day officially become -- a candidate, and thereby 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.

Advice to Palinites -- get used to the disappointment.

sunnygal Thu, Feb 16, 2012 11:04:10am

Sarah who?

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