Palin on 2012 run: “I’m engaged in the internal deliberations candidly"

[IDemo]

The inner circle of Sarah Palin’s political organization is notoriously difficult to crack, but in an over-7500-word piece in the New York Times Magazine posted online Wednesday, Robert Draper offers a rare glimpse into Palin-land – as well as buzzy quotes from an hour-long interview with the former Alaska gov.

In the key excerpt ricocheting around the media today, Palin gives a clear indication that she is seriously mulling a 2012 run:

“I am,” Sarah Palin told me the next day when I asked her if she was already weighing a run for president. “I’m engaged in the internal deliberations candidly, and having that discussion with my family, because my family is the most important consideration here.” Palin went on to say that there weren’t meaningful differences in policy among the field of G.O.P. hopefuls “but that in fact there’s more to the presidency than that” and that her decision would involve evaluating whether she could bring unique qualities to the table.

She hasn't seriously mulled anything in her life.

[secondwind]

1. K&R for your last sentence there, it cracked me up! :-)

[chelsea0011]

2. "internal deliberations"? She is talking to herself?

[gkhouston]

4. But she's being candid with herself. Apparently, she thinks we need to know that.

Is she not candid with herself at other times? :crazy:

[Raschel]

9. Ha!

[EOTE]

3. But only if no one else is interested in running...

Right, Sarah?

[TwilightGardener]

5. In answer to my question as to whether we Americans have been punished enough...

I guess the answer is no. The media is like a dog with a bone, they're not going to let her go until something is made of her, somehow.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Except cider. She probably has mulled cider.

I don't know how serious she was about it, though.

[MisterP]

7. oh God, I think my Wernicke's area shut down reading that sentence nt

[marmar]

8. "because my family is the most important consideration here"

Especially when she can exploit them.

[mzteris]

11. especially their

homophobic and other "family" values - like underage sex, vandalism, and being extremely ill-behaved and very ill-spoken (not to mention not being able to coherently string together a grammatically correct sentence with correct spelling!)

[groundloop]

10. Would the media PLEASE stop forcing me to listen to that person !!!!!

PLEASE, I can't take it any more. I'm tired of hearing that voice, and have become nauseated reading that person's attempts at sounding intelligent by using multi-syllable made up words. :puke:

[KeyserSoze87]

12. Argh!

Why does the media keep giving coverage to this idiot? Do they seriously like the idea of her becoming president in 2012? Sarah Palin as president is by far the most terrifying thing I've ever heard of.

[laughingliberal]

13. You're being unfair. I'm sure she's had mulled wine at least once. It's really cold in Alaska. nt