Newsweek article about Sarah Palin: "I can win !"

[Tender Branson]

Palin Plots Her Next Move

by Peter J. Boyer
July 10, 2011

Sarah Palin hasn’t jumped into the race for the White House (yet), but she believes the prize is there for the taking. In a conversation with Peter J. Boyer, Palin warns Boehner not to raise the debt ceiling, proclaims that Obama is beatable—and says the 2012 field is far from settled.

"I believe that I can win a national election," Sarah Palin declared one recent evening, sitting in the private dining room of a hotel in rural Iowa. The occasion for her visit to quintessential small-town America was a gathering of the faithful that would have instantaneously erupted into a fervent campaign rally had she but given the word. Instead, it had been another day on the non–campaign trail, this one capped by a sweet victory: she had just attended the premiere of a glowingly positive documentary about her titled The Undefeated.



“The people of America are desperate for positive change, and deserving of positive change, to get us off of this wrong track,” she told me during a conversation that lasted late into the night and, inevitably, kept returning to the subject that has titillated the media and spooked Republican presidential contenders for months: her political intentions. “I’m not so egotistical as to believe that it has to be me, or it can only be me, to turn things around,” she said. “But I do believe that I can win.”



Two years after stepping down as governor of Alaska—not a retreat, she later said of the decision, quoting Korean War general Oliver Smith, but “advancing in another direction”—Palin has proved herself an enduring force capable, with minimal effort, of keeping political professionals and, especially, the press in a state of perpetual imbalance. This derives partly, of course, from her standing as a possible presidential candidate with presumed frontrunner potential, a status she seems inclined to maintain for as long as possible. On the day we met, her daughter Bristol had declared in a television interview that Palin had already made a decision about whether to run for president—an assertion that Palin quickly tried to shoot down. “I think Bristol has made up her mind, and Bristol wants me to run for president,” she said. “But we’re still thinking about it. I’m still thinking about it.”

If Palin doesn’t end up running, the reason will be simple, she said. “Family. If it came down to the family just saying, ‘Please, Mom, don’t do this,’ then that would be the deal-killer for me, because your family’s gotta be in it with you.”

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/10/palin-plots-her-next-move.html

[The Mikado]

She's desperately seeking a rationale for her not running that's not "I'm an unelectable joke."

[Tender Branson]

Well, I have something to say about Palin "winning a national campaign":

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No, you can't.

[Mr. Morden]

Well, I have something to say about Palin "winning a national campaign":

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That's just because Mormons are upset about Palin's supporters mocking Romney in videos like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDOykmey7-I

[King]

Well, I have something to say about Palin "winning a national campaign":

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No, you can't.

Typical lamestream liberal spin.  Her strength in potential swing states like Utah is a plus!

[Username MechaRFK]

She would get cream in 2012 or any year for now on. Howard Stern could win against Palin in presidential election.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

She would get cream in 2012 or any year for now on. Howard Stern could win against Palin in presidential election.

Howard Stern isn't unelectable, so that comparison isn't so bad.

[Username MechaRFK]

She would get cream in 2012 or any year for now on. Howard Stern could win against Palin in presidential election.

Howard Stern isn't unelectable, so that comparison isn't so bad.

All Stern needs to win is the Northeast, West Coast, and SouthWest. If he gets those spots, Stern would win the election.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Run Sarah run!!!!

She would get cream in 2012 or any year for now on. Howard Stern could win against Palin in presidential election.

Howard Stern isn't unelectable, so that comparison isn't so bad.

All Stern needs to win is the Northeast, West Coast, and SouthWest. If he gets those spots, Stern would win the election.

Howard Stern could beat Palin. Dennis Kucinich would probably beat Palin. Hell, Blago would probably beat Palin if he got early release from jail. Cynthia McKinney would lose to her, but it would probably be close.

[TJ in Oregon]

I can see it now, a Kucinich vs. Palin match-up where both of them lose their home states!

[RogueBeaver]

Attention-whoring with the MSM as an explicit partner as usual.

[King]

Palin would beat Kucinich for a 2nd place finish to whatever independent candidate jumps in to save the day.  There are more blind conservatives than there are blind liberals, though expect both candidates to get at least 25%.

[Mechaman]

The only way Sarah Palin could possibly win is if the economy is in the sh*t can come late October and Obama films a steamy sex scene between him and a prize male black horse from the Presidential stables while the cameras take a still photo of him wearing a NASCAR driver's helmet and giving the THUMBS UP!  Oh wait, she would still probably lose because nobody likes a f***ing drama whorin crybaby quitter.

[GMantis]

Well, I have something to say about Palin "winning a national campaign":

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No, you can't.

Typical lamestream liberal spin.  Her strength in potential swing states like Utah is a plus!

Yes, the Media's leftwing bias again. She's certainly favored against Obama in Utah. Slightly.