PJ: The contrast between her scripted moments and her off-the-cuff comments is remarkable. When you hear her answer basic questions thrown at her by a random reporter, in a situation where she could not prepare, she often rambles and doesn't always make sense (Paul Revere springs to mind here*). It's almost as if her carefully and sometimes passionately delivered talking points in speeches and on Fox news were written by someone else.
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w
The Telegraph
Sarah Palin refuses to rule out presidential run saying 'anything's possible'
Sarah Palin has not ruled out running for president saying “anything’s possible” as she cast a vote for Newt Gingrich at Alaska's GOP Super Tuesday primary last night. By Amy Willis
The former Republican vice-presidential candidate told a CNN reporter she would “seriously consider whatever I can do to help our country” when asked if she would agree to being put forward if the party faced a brokered convention.
The Tea Party darling also indicated she would consider running in the 2016 presidential race, if asked.
"Anything in this life, in this world is possible. Anything is possible for an American. I don't discount any idea or plan that, at this point, isn't in my control. Anything's possible,” she said.
After Tuesday's crucial vote in 10 states, Romney still leads the contest after a close win in Ohio, a state with an uncanny knack for predicting nominees. However, after securing only a tight margin in the state - only one percentage point - he failed to break away significantly from his rivals.
A brokered convention would only happen if a single candiate was unable to win a majority of delegates for the party's nominating convention - held in Tampa, Florida, in August this year.
Palin made the comments while casting her ballot in Wasilla on Super Tuesday, initially declining to say who she had voted for out of the four candidates that remain.
“I would not tell you who I voted for in this presidential preference poll,” she said.
However, she later admitted to another news station that she had voted for Newt Gingrich, the right-wing former House Speaker who spoke of colonising the moon while canvassing votes in Florida.
She said she had voted for him because he was "the cheerful one".
“I considered who can best bust through the Orwellian Obama rhetoric that we heard more of today in Obama’s press conference talking about another insolvent and unconstitutional bailout that has no funds to finance — another program that he wants to kind of forced down our throat," she told Fox News host Neil Cavuto.
"Who can best bust these ideas of America never taking steps towards energy independence and we have the natural resources here and can do it, and who can best bust through that radical left dispensation and desire to mistreat those who are defenseless, mistreat those who perhaps have some disadvantages by making them more beholden to government? Who best can contrast themselves from that?
“I thought who best could do that — my own personal opinion — is the cheerful one, Newt Gingrich,” she said.
She added: “I have appreciated what he has to for — stood boldly for. He has been the underdog in many of these primary races and these caucuses, and I’ve respected what he has stood for. Up here what we have — it’s not a primary, basically it’s not even a caucus — it’s a presidential preference poll. My preference tonight was for the cheerful one.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sarah-palin/9127510/Sarah-Palin-refuses-to-rule-out-presidential-run-saying-anythings-possible.html
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