BREAKING: Sarah Palin NOT running for presidentMark Levin just read a statement from Sarah Palin that details her decision not to run for president. He is now interviewing her and I will have audio of the statement and the interview with Sarah Palin as soon as it is complete.
Added: Full interview with Mark Levin. (more…)
As Chris Christie makes the grand exit, do we see others perhaps poised to make their entrance? Food for thought….
(Politico)…Ken Vogel and I both have sources telling us that calls were made on behalf of a mystery candidate to various early states to determine presidential filing deadlines.
The calls were made by representatives of the law firm Baker Hostetler – a firm that employs lawyer Mark Braden, who represents Sarah PAC, her political action committee. (more…)
Tonight Sarah Palin spoke with the Fox Business Channel’s Judge Napolitano, and probably the biggest news was the following statement, “Don’t expect an announcement tomorrow. This is a serious decision, and I’ve engaged in serious deliberations. So, within the next 24 hours, don’t look for me to make a decision.” Listen to the full video and then tell me what you think. If she wasn’t running, why would she need to string things out past September? (Full story following the video.)
On Monday, during a fundraiser in California, President Obama declared that Europe’s debt problems and their inability to solve them was “scaring the world.” He went on to explain that Europeans “have not fully healed from the crisis back in 2007 and never fully dealt with the challenges that their banking system faced” and that “they’re trying to take responsible actions, but those actions haven’t been quite as quick as they need to be.”
This of course is coming from a President who has done nothing to deal with our own country’s enormous debt crisis and who is in fact eager to incur even more debt with another useless stimulus bill (now called a “jobs bill” though the last stimulus failed to produce the jobs it promised, which is perhaps why Harry Reid doesn’t seem too eager to bring this new bill to a vote despite the President’s demands to “pass this bill”). Yes, Europe has serious debt problems, but for President Obama to be lecturing our allies about not being “quite as quick” in dealing with a debt crisis is downright hypocritical. (more…)
(Political Wire) Sarah Palin suggested to Fox News that being president might be too limiting:
“Does a title shackle a person? Are they — someone like me, maverick, you know, I do go rogue, and I call it like I see it, and I don’t mind stirring it up…. is a title and is a campaign too shackling? Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of the box, not allowing handlers to shape me?”
For the record…she IS wearing a running suit. Make of that what you may.
(CBS)…Manchester, N.H. – “It’s great to spend Labor Day with you,” Palin told a large crowd of tea party supporters in Manchester, N.H., on the traditional kick off day of the presidential primary season. “You could be grilling up some steaks with your neighbors and instead, you’re concerned about your country and taking a stand.”
Palin drew about 600 people, more than double the number that turned out for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a tea party event in Concord, N.H., on Sunday. Many had hoped to hear the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee announce her candidacy, some of them chanting “Run, Sarah, run.” She smiled. “I appreciate your encouragement. I do,” Palin told them, with well-practiced coyness. (more…)
As Sarah Palin took to the stage to the sound of enthusiastic applause and the crowd yelling, “Run Sarah…Run”, I was immediately reminded of the rally’s location, “Balloon Classic Field”. It was the perfect venue for a candidate filled with hope and rising expectations. She delivered a forty minute campaign-style speech that marked three years to the day since she accepted the nomination as the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate. It was also delivered entirely without the aid of a teleprompter. She told the crowd that we’ll know by the end of the month as to whether or not she’ll be throwing her hat into the ring. If she does decide to run at this later date, I’m sure by December no one will care WHEN she announced.
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Today’s rally will be carried live on C-SPAN from 12-2pm eastern. For the full schedule of today’s rally see below.
(DesMoinesRegister)…A grassy field in Iowa will become the scene of a festival of conservative rhetoric and patriotic music Saturday, while television cameras capture the event for a nationwide audience.The star attraction, Alaska Republican Sarah Palin, will speak at about 1:15 p.m. at the Tea Party of America’s “Restoring America” rally in Indianola, organizer Charlie Gruschow told The Des Moines Register today. Palin won’t reveal during the event whether or not she intends to seek the 2012 GOP nomination, CNN’s Peter Hamby reports. But the event falls on the three-year anniversary of her address to the Republican National Convention when she became the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, he notes. (more…)
(Politico)(h/t PhillyCon)…Fox News released its first poll Thursday since Rick Perry’s entry into the presidential race, showing the Texas governor drawing 26 percent of the GOP primary vote and leading Mitt Romney by 8 points. What caught one reader’s attention, though, wasn’t the size of Perry’s lead, but the name of Fox’s Republican pollster: Shaw & Company Research, a Texas-based firm that conducts the Fox survey in cooperation with the Democratic pollster Anderson Robbins Research.
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