Signs Grow That Palin May Run

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WASHINGTON — Former Gov. Sarah Palin is fortifying her small staff of advisers, buying a house in Arizona — where associates have said she could base a national campaign — and reviving her schedule of public appearances. The moves are the most concrete signals yet that Ms. Palin is seriously weighing a Republican presidential bid.

While it is by no means clear that she would be willing to give up her lucrative speaking career and her perch as an analyst on Fox News to face the scrutiny and combat that would come with her entrance into the race, she is being pressed by supporters for a decision, and has acknowledged that time is running out.

Two people familiar with the details of the real estate transaction said that Ms. Palin and her husband, Todd, had purchased a $1.7 million house in Scottsdale, Ariz., through a shell company that hid their identity. Like others interviewed for this article, they would speak only on condition of anonymity, so as not to anger the Palins, who have become especially protective of their privacy in the maelstrom that has followed them since 2008. The Arizona Republic reported Sunday on speculation in Scottsdale that the Palins were the buyers of the house.

While Arizona would be a more convenient travel hub for a presidential campaign than Alaska, there are others reasons besides logistics why the Palins might want a house there. Their daughter Bristol recently bought a house in Maricopa, which is near Scottsdale, and the state gives Ms. Palin a more convenient jumping-off point for her speaking engagements around the lower 48 states.

Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/us/politics/26campaign.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

[AlinPA]

1. Look for her to announce on Fox "news" that she will announce on Fox "news". Millions of

right-wingers will sit in front of their tee-vees, drooling and waiting.

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2. You Betcha!

I'm right on board with the teabagger wingnuts on this. Let's have a contest between President Obama and Miss Wasilla.

If she somehow does get elected President, she will ride through the streets of Washington ringing a bell, and shooting her guns to warn the British that they can't take away our arms.

[gejohnston]

5. I can't rember who said it, it might have been Howard Dean, she

could actually win if we get over confident or some October Surprise happened. Everyone made fun at Reagan until the last three weeks, that did not go so well. If she does run and gets the nomination, there is a youtube video of the last episode of her show. It needs to go viral.

The one with the canned "hunt" (sorry, no animal is going to stand around while you are shooting at it no matter how much you missed. That is why I think the beast was tethered. But I digress.)

Why you may ask? Some of the more right leaning folks at a shooting range I go to was talking about what a poser she was. I had to go find the video. Besides having her dad load and chamber each round for her, missed several times, the woman is an accident waiting to happen. The average ten year old farm kid knows how to handle a gun safer than she does.

[Galraedia]

3. It's not FOX News...

It's Faux News. ;)

[Galraedia]

4. According to David Brooks....

"Sarah Palin represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party." ―conservative columnist David Brooks

So I say let the Republican party keep their poison.