Sarah Palin: ‘Is a Title and Campaign Too Shackle-y?’
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A Palin presidency: Too “shackle-y?”
That’s what Sarah Palin suggested on Fox News’ “On The Record with Greta VanSusteren” tonight, saying that she’s concerned jumping into the 2012 presidential race will muffle her message.
“Is a title worth it?” she asked, rhetorically. “Does a title shackle a person? Are they someone like me who’s maverick? I do go rogue and I call it like I see it and I don’t mind stirring it up in order to get people to think and debate aggressively.”
“Is a title and a campaign too shackle-y?,” she continued. “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 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.”
Palin expressed a concern about “being caricatured” if she runs, and asked again “whether a title is needed to make a difference or someone can be rogue, can be maverick, can be passionate about issues and can get people to think very wisely about issues.”
Palin also said she didn’t know anything about a recent e-mail her political action committee sent to supporters saying she’s “on the verge” of making a 2012 decision: “Well I don’t know what went out to voters that said I’m on the verge.”
But she admitted it’s getting late.
“For logistical reasons though, certainly, decisions have to be made,” she said. “You have to get your ducks lined up in order to get your name on ballots.”
And she still thinks she could beat President Obama.
“I do,” she replied, when Susteren asked if she could win over the current president. “I wouldn’t have gone this far in my thinking about whether to run or not had I not had the confidence to believe that Americans are ready for someone out of the box.”
Palin also assessed the existing Republican field. She called the current coverage of the GOP race a “quasi reality show” and chalked up the speculation surrounding New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s presidential ambitions to a game of “who’s going to be the next flavor of the week?”
“I think a lot of the push for Chris Christie and others comes from not just from those within the party but from those inside baseball within the media,” she said.
But the GOP’s current underdog, she suggested, is “Herm Cain,” better known as Herman Cain: “He’s, I guess you could say, with all due respect, the flavor of the week.”
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i wonder if she is pulling for herman cain because she is attracted to him since he is black? Look how she calls him Herm. They may have already gotten it on.
Posted by: Russell Dee | September 28, 2011, 12:32 am 12:32 am
She didn’t say Herm, she said Herb, as in Herb Caen, who was a famous KGO radio personality, amongst other things. His show on KGO reached Alaska, with the powerful setup that the SF station had. Everyone in Alaska that was there in the 70s-80s knew who Herb Caen was. Palin just got confused.
Actually I think she said “shackling”, not “shackle-y”
Posted by: iceworm | September 28, 2011, 1:22 am 1:22 am
Did she just call “Herm” Flava Flave?
Posted by: Sarah Quittypants | September 28, 2011, 1:30 am 1:30 am
Russ, shes not attracted. Shes talking trash, saying he’s the flavor of the week. She apparently thinks she can jump in at the end, avoiding dozens of gaffes and generally allowing the people to see more of how dumb she is. I rather like Cain, and would like to see a Ron Paul / Herman Cain ticket, which is much better than the Romney / Perry garbage as “top” choices.
Posted by: Mike Ikeo | September 28, 2011, 1:41 am 1:41 am
Well…..a title does not shackle Obama. He continues to play golfs with his cronies every week as well as having his extravagant exotic vacations with his family with fine dining and wining every months fully paid for by the ever-gullible American taxpayers……No Obama does not ever feel shackled and muffled by a title.
Posted by: skponggol | September 28, 2011, 2:43 am 2:43 am
There you have it folks – she’s not going to run… This is the same stuff she said when she quit as governor, and at the May 2(?) fundraiser for special needs people. Doesn’t matter if she said “shackley” or “schackling”, or “Herm” or “Herb”, at some point she’ll announce she’s decided to “continue making a difference from outside the confines of a political office”. Thing is, after she says she’s not going to run, she may be ignored – Fox will let her go after her contract is up (Ailes is moving toward center), and her credibility will be shot after dragging her game up to the last minute (she won’t announce this month) – I wouldn’t be surprised if she just lets the clock run out.
Posted by: chris87654 | September 28, 2011, 3:09 am 3:09 am
Sarah Palin. Once an idiot, always an idiot. Alternatively, there is no cure for determined stupidity.
Posted by: whatever | September 28, 2011, 5:05 am 5:05 am
“concerned about being caricatured”? Uh, too late, honey, that horse bolted the barn a LONG time ago.
Posted by: Floretta | September 28, 2011, 5:23 am 5:23 am
Mrs Palin feels so strongly that she can beat President Obama that she won’t even try it. She’s a Mama Teddy Bear, a coward and a fraud. I don’t know why ABC is kissing her azz so much lately. Do they want to take up the space that Ailes is leaving behind? Please note, ABC, you are welcome to her. Be our guest. Good luck.
Posted by: viva | September 28, 2011, 5:43 am 5:43 am
Fairly obvious she is in, before her only concern was her family when it came to deciding. Not a question anymore. The whole ( can she do more outside the box, rather than as President) is an
old subject she brought up months and months ago.
Posted by: Joe | September 28, 2011, 6:52 am 6:52 am
Viva, ABC sees their man Obama is a flop, what do you expect?
Posted by: specmach | September 28, 2011, 6:53 am 6:53 am
She’s the new Paris Hilton… sucks up all the oxygen while contributing nada….
Posted by: badcafe | September 28, 2011, 7:53 am 7:53 am
Palin wonders if the campaign thingy is to shakel-y? Or does it limit the big bucks from rolling in. If only she didn’t have to actually go through this whole campaigny thingy and just have the American people declare her president by acclaimation.
Posted by: commonsensenow | September 28, 2011, 7:54 am 7:54 am
She considers it a “title?” Does she realize that
Posted by: WorkingClass | September 28, 2011, 8:05 am 8:05 am
She considers it a “title?” She does realize that there is a JOB that goes along with that title, doesn’t she?
Posted by: WorkingClass | September 28, 2011, 8:07 am 8:07 am
Title? Title? A job running the greatest country and she calls it a Title? Unbeliievable!
Shackle-y is Palin’s short expression for inability to make millions while President.
The 800 lb caricature in the room is what would be made of Palin quitting the Alaskan governorship. Thin-skinned Palin should be afraid, be very afraid of the quitting caricature of her past actions.
Posted by: Good Idea | September 28, 2011, 8:23 am 8:23 am
so, what did You say, sarah, this time?
Again – Nothing?
Who are those Idiots who listen You still??????
Posted by: Linda, Fl | September 28, 2011, 8:25 am 8:25 am
She quit as governor for the pay increase. What makes everyone think she would now take a pay cut to run for President?
Posted by: Catherine | September 28, 2011, 8:40 am 8:40 am
Ugh!
Posted by: Carol | September 28, 2011, 9:03 am 9:03 am
Notice that she said she went to Israel to make a difference, without a title, got together with the PM to tell him that the majority of Americans don’t support President Obama’s policy.
Posted by: iceworm | September 28, 2011, 9:03 am 9:03 am
” I do go rogue …”
Yes, we read all about it.
Posted by: Aaron Ververs | September 28, 2011, 9:03 am 9:03 am
Sarah Palin is right.
Politicians should avoid the “lamestream media”. They are likely to ask you embarrassing questions or questions that can slip you up and cause you embarrassment.
She should know. She was subjected to hard trick questions when she ran for vice president..questions that made her appear unprepared , uneducated or two faced.
Sarah is spot on right. It’s better for conservative candidates to appear on Fox news, where they will be asked more meaningful questions like: Why is America a great country? Why is your opponent morally corrupt? Why do you love your country so much? Why should we support our troops? Why are illegal aliens hurting our country? Why do you love your family?
For example. When Palin criticized the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act — she stated that telling kids what to eat seeks to take away “God-given rights to make our own decisions.”
The liberal news media then attacked her by asking if she thought smoking pot, having an abortion, paying for sex, going naked in public were also God given rights.
That questions was uncalled for. It was meant to trip up Sarah and make her look inconsistent.
That’s why Conservatives should stick to Fox News. Fox news won’t ask Conservative tough questions that are hard to answer.
Fox news will make sure that Conservatives get to rehearse the questions beforehand so that they won’t make any slip ups.
Fox news will protect Conservative candidates and make sure they don’t look stupid
Posted by: achillies | September 28, 2011, 9:05 am 9:05 am
She makes fun of the Republican “reality show”, while she had her own political reality show, rock climbing without even wearing a helmet, and having her father work the bolt on her rifle. And her daughter is busy in a Hollywood bar accusing hecklers of being gay, al the while with her reality show cameras running. This is after screeching madly while being worked over on the mechanical bull. . Well she won’t run, it’s obvious, she was complaining that someone on Fox used a new poll that shows she’s at the level of Ron Paul, when they apparently should have kept on using an older poll that showed her higher. It’s a conspiracy to make her into a caricature.
Posted by: susitna | September 28, 2011, 9:11 am 9:11 am
If she’s got to get her lame ducks in a row, she does have an uphill battle in at least beating out Herb.
Posted by: anAlaskanAlsoII | September 28, 2011, 9:12 am 9:12 am
It’s telling when during campaign season the press has to write a bunch of stories on people that aren’t running on the republican ticket. Stories about people not running that say if they did they could win.
Posted by: Secondlook | September 28, 2011, 9:23 am 9:23 am
Even though Palin will probably never run for President,
we will never hear the end of “I could have beat so-and-so …” from Palin.
Palin is a legend in a mind full of People Magazine factoids.
Posted by: Good Idea | September 28, 2011, 9:50 am 9:50 am
Oh, please Sarah, run. We’ll let you jump in AFTER the debates are over so you can make all of the misstatements you want and we’ll agree to believe everything you say. We’ll let you be the only candidate to run campaign ads on TV. We’ll funnel all campaign contributions to you. We’ll let you make the nastiest remarks about other people. We’ll clip Michelle Bachmanns claws. We;ll let you keep all the designer clothes you wear. We’ll make sure that each of your children get a pension equal to yours. We’ll make sure you’re the sole owner of the Crown Jewels. We know you want to be begged to run so here I am begging. Please run, Sarah.
Posted by: howdymo1 | September 28, 2011, 9:50 am 9:50 am
President Obama Got Osama bin Laden, Sarah Palin Gave Up the Governors Title in the Middle of her Term. (And She Can See Russia From her Porch) lol
Posted by: charity0316 | September 28, 2011, 9:55 am 9:55 am
Whatever your feelings are about Sarah Palin, she is sincere in her passion for the individual’s right as stated by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, Property, and the pursuit of Happiness.” The government is established to protect our rights (period) and then “get out of the way!” It is because of her sincerity, her passion, that I do not want her to run for President. I do not want to see her goodness crushed by second handers.
Posted by: logan | September 28, 2011, 10:04 am 10:04 am
That’s Palin-speak, for “I am not running”.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | September 28, 2011, 10:34 am 10:34 am
LOL! ….. This is Palin’s way of saying this:
“I’m not running because my advisers have already told me that if I run, I will lose. And if I lose, I will not be hired to be a paid guest speaker as often as I am now. My advisers told me that most organizations that are looking for a guest speaker don’t want a 2-TIME LOSER to be their guest speaker. So, I don’t want to be caught in that predicament where I’m getting fewer paid invites to be a paid guest speaker. My family and I couldn’t afford to live off of less than a million dollars per year, which I’m currently raking in just by being an idiot. ….. pretty good money for be an idiot, don’t-chya-think? Why would I want to jeopardize that income? But foolish followers, please, all of you… keep believing that I’m still considering running and keep sending those checks to SarahPAC, OK?”
LOL… that in a nutshell, is what Sarah Palin’s trying to say.
Posted by: Forrest Gump is a Republican | September 28, 2011, 10:52 am 10:52 am
She is neither a ROGUE or a MAVERICK. She is a shallow, emotional airhead, sometimes ‘victim and most times verbal bully who isn’t smart enough to even discuss any political topic you could choose. Her thing? To ‘string along and scam her followers’ to creat a ‘lucrative paycheck’ for herself. That is ALL she is about.
Posted by: CND FOX | September 28, 2011, 11:42 am 11:42 am
Cnd did you just try to smear Palin as dumb————please she has done quit well despite all the smears and the organized attack of both bots and corrupt republicans. This in itself shows she is not an airhead and cetainly far far more intelligent than the moron Obama.
Posted by: You know it is true | September 28, 2011, 11:46 am 11:46 am
Sara needs to be free to be the stupid idiot that she IS! After all, if she gets into the race she would actually have to answer to all the dumb things that spew from her mouth and she can’t have that!!! One thing is for sure, she actually KNOWS that she hasn’t a CHANCE and by standing back she can deride everyone throughout the next year while having minimal responsibility for anything she does and the BONUS for her – she’ll make even more money. Watch out people Republican BIMBO coming your way!!!
Posted by: demnme | September 28, 2011, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm
Thanks John, for unleashing this self-promoter on all of us in the lower 48. Your final “pandering” was to women, so you had to select the least qualified as your running mate. Once she got a taste of the lower 48′s shopping and lifestyle, she was hooked, so here we are today. She doesn’t give 2 hoots for this country, not if it conflicts with her ability to make money. That’s her mantra. PERIOD. Yep, she’s bright all right, in sucking $$ out of her followers’ pockets. In all the rest, dumb as a box of rocks. When are we going to wake up and STOP electing and listening to all those who say they hate big government. State and Federal governments are by their very nature big. If you don’t like big government, go back to America’s small towns. And run those into the ground!
Posted by: Bonnie | September 28, 2011, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
YOU KNOW IT IS TRUE….LOL…LOL….I didn’t ‘TRY’ to do anyting. I told it like it is. She’s an absolute shallow moron. And all she is doing is ‘USING’ her blind followers to make herself rich. You know….LOL….like that ‘mansion’ she just acquired in Arizona this year. LOL….I just wonder when (IF) her ‘sheep’ will ever wake up and smell the coffee? Personally….I don’t think they are smart enough to.
Posted by: CND FOX | September 28, 2011, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
Hey ABC, clean the wax out of your ears, Sarah distinctly said “Herb” Cain, not once but FOUR times. Does that sound petty to point this out? Just recently, Donald Trump called Rick Perry “Jim”. It’s such a subtle way of dissing your opponent, eh? Sarah Palin is the Queen of Plagiarism.
Posted by: ProChoiceGrandma | September 28, 2011, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm
Is $arah Palin so very fragile that Greta doesn’t dare ask her about the McGinniss book? Isn’t a book coming out about a person sitting right in your newsroom worthy of a few questions about it? And they call this NEWS???
Posted by: KAO | September 28, 2011, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
English lesson 101 for Sarah Palin (just in this last interview): No such word as shackle-y. A better word might be constrained or limited or even binded. Lesson 2- Caricatured is the exaggerated drawing an artist makes of someone. It had nothing to do with what she was speaking of. Perhaps streotyped, or pigeon-holed or even archetyped. Finally someone is a maverick (noun), someone is not maverick (verb or adjective- hard to tell with her). She describes herself as a maverick but has tens of thousands of followers- hardly a lone dissenter amongst the crowd! A couple of weeks or perhaps months on dictionary.com would do her some good. If it sounds like an idiot, looks like an idiot and acts like one- IT IS AN IDIOT. God bless America- we desperately need it!
Posted by: Mark | September 28, 2011, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
Constitution; perhaps she should read through Article II, which explains that the presidency isn’t a title. It’s an actual job, with responsibilities and obligations and opportunities.
She really doesn’t see the difference between a title and an office.
You see: when you hold an office, you have to do things. When you hold a title, you just go places, people cheer and everyone loves you.
Posted by: bob | September 28, 2011, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm
$arah’$ not intere$ted in the $hackle$…..ju$t the $hekel$.
Posted by: Grifty McGrifterton | September 28, 2011, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm
GRIFTY MCGRIFTERTON – thanks for the LOL!
Posted by: green.goddess | September 28, 2011, 9:57 pm 9:57 pm
And what message is that it might muffle? That she’s a clueless twit who can’t even decide if she wants to run for president or not and even if (perish the thought) she did and somehow got elected, she’d bail out before her term is over? Why are we still paying attention to this woman? Poor Herman Cain could strip naked, coat himself with napalm, light himself on fire, and then dance around the Washington Monument and the press still would barely pay attention to him, but Palin plays her “maybe I will maybe I won’t” game and never mind the naked burning presidential candidate.
Posted by: The Green Devil | September 29, 2011, 2:17 am 2:17 am
Sarah Palin is a quitter and a loser. She is the great pretender and ought to be in jail behind shackles. She has been nothing but a panhandler and grifter for the past few years–stealing money from the less intelligent and pretending to be a Christian. If you set up a PAC and beg for donations and then are free to use these donations to support your extravagant life style, you should have to pay taxes on this money. She pays big bucks to full time attorneys on her staff to find all the tax loopholes so she can keep all the money from people who believe her lies about planning to run in 2012. Look at all the damage she has done to our country because of her lies and being so polarizing and divisive. Any good ideas that any elected official has promoted as been shot down by Sarah and her leaders who make big dollars as talk show commentators. Sarah would like you to think that going rogue, being a maverick, thinking outside the box–is a compliment. Mainstream America knows that these words mean dishonest, unable to be trusted; only watching out for yourself; narcissistic; –Sarah Palin is talking in circles and most people as dishonest as she is are already in jail. Palins are Alaska’s version of white trash–shame on them.
Posted by: Trudy | September 29, 2011, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm
Simple answer—-The job of being President does not pay enough—-certainly not as much as running around collecting from the unenlightened
Posted by: murphy | September 29, 2011, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
I hadn’t realized really how shallow Ms Palin was until I read her latest: “Is a title and a campaign too shackle-y?,” she continued. “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 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.” Oh, yes, and how about the next bit about whether she thinks she could beat President Barack Obama? :“ I do,” she replied, when Susteren asked if she could win over the current president. “I wouldn’t have gone this far in my thinking about whether to run or not had I not had the confidence to believe that Americans are ready for someone out of the box.” I guess that settles that one, doesn’t it, oh “Miss out-of-the-box”? Seems like dawn in America, people!!!
Posted by: Philojazz | October 5, 2011, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm
Palin going rogue…. well maybe she can simply put get on her sled and ride north Far enough that there is no electric, newspaper, radio, televison and really pray. Pray that she did for once make the right decision and save herselg the embarrasement and humiliation of having entered the presidential race. Get on her sled and take her family with her. Head as far north as possible The comfort of having her family join her and to have someone that would honestly beleive her should tide her over In respect she should have never ever thought about politics Who is she fooling?
Posted by: OhHenry | October 5, 2011, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm
Absolutely right. Going green is the future in every sense. Because if we don’t go green, then there might not be a future at all.
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