“We haven’t yet begun to fight”: An interview with Sarah Palin
1. What’s next for you?
Short term: I encourage others to step out in faith, jump out of the comfort zone, and broaden our reach as believers in American exceptionalism. That means broadening our audience. I’m taking my own advice here as I free up opportunities to share more broadly the message of the beauty of freedom and the imperative of defending our republic and restoring this most exceptional nation. We can’t just preach to the choir; the message of liberty and true hope must be understood by a larger audience.
Focus on the 2014 election is also imperative. It’s going to be like 2010, but this time around we need to shake up the GOP machine that tries to orchestrate away too much of the will of constitutional conservatives who don’t give a hoot how they do it in DC. DC is out of touch, obviously. Voices on the right like Mark Levin, Rush, and the writers here at Breitbart have come out strongly against the “go along to get along” politicians who wave the white flag before the battle even begins. We’re not going to be able to advance the cause of limited constitutional government unless we deal with these big government enablers on our side. And this all ties into the problem of crony capitalism and the permanent political class in the Beltway. We need to consistently take them on election after election – ever vigilant.
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Your mistake was thinking that her bus tour was surely the first step of her running for the nomination. She never once said it or implied it. She told us exactly what the purpose of her bus tour was. If you were upset because you felt duped, it’s because you didn’t pay attention. You heard what you wanted to hear. You heard she was planning to run. She never said she was.
NoNails on January 27, 2013 at 11:08 AM
Well Gryphon, as should have been fairly obvious I DID invest in her (potential) candidacy……and before I do so again, there’ll actually have to BE ONE…I meant no attack on the Personage with the “Coy Coquette” line…
JFKY on January 27, 2013 at 11:08 AM
nothing about a cult. I was disppointed at Palin’s announcement in Oct as much as anyone. Thought it was the wrong move that her voice would be lessened during the campign if she didn’t run. that the party would move in gaint leaps to the left if mitt was the nominee. I was correct about that part. I still think up to the last moment she planned on running. something happened not sure what. Doesn’t really matter now. The decision was made and the fallout of that decision has been seen. I have yet to see anyone come on the scene to match her in the GOp field but I do have hopes that Cruz might be able to take over that position. If she runs or not I agree with you she will have to not play footloose with it and make firm committments before the primary season gets here but that is 3+ years away and for the next couple of years we need to be more concerned about 2014 then 2016. and if she wants to step up and lead that fight for 2014 more power to her and I couldn’t ask for a better messagener for the conservative position since her actions when in power much her talk. We need to earn trust with the people and do away with the lies the GOPe have spread while they say one thing and do another and we need someone to hold the GOPe feet to the fire and call out their crony capitalism agenda.
unseen on January 27, 2013 at 11:09 AM
I see NoNails…It’s MY fault….well how fooliosh of me…just let me say, my corrective action to make sure that I don’t make the same MISTAKE is to say, “Declare early or shut up!”
JFKY on January 27, 2013 at 11:09 AM
Nothing at all wrong with that. I don’t’ think it’s good to get too heavily invested in people and personalities. I think it’s much better to hew to a set of principles first. Sarah Palin doesn’t need to run for national office in order for us to embrace the principles she espouses.
gryphon202 on January 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM
This is funny!
Bmore on January 27, 2013 at 11:12 AM
LOL. Playing stupid I see. Let’s try again. What’s disingenuous about comparing Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin? I’ll even let you use your fingers.
Marcus on January 27, 2013 at 11:14 AM
She’s the only one, who has plainly put it, ‘do not put your faith in politicians’ but she doesn’t come from the political class, hence I trust her more then most, Then again, you didn’t have a crazed stalker, spout deliberate lies, and mark a path to her door, If this happened to Mittens, he would hide in the elevator in La Jolla.
narciso on January 27, 2013 at 11:17 AM
It looks like two elections in a row have done nothing to disabuse some people of what it takes to win an election in America in the 21st century. In the worst economic conditions since the great depression, America voted again for a committed socialist and even the likes of Allen West, for example, lost his seat.
Yes, it’s true, the ranks of the Palinbots have shrunk dramatically in the last four years on Hotair – many of her former supporters came to see the empty skirt she really was – but the ones who remain, gawd, the ones who remain, are that much more intransigent and insufferable.
keep the change on January 27, 2013 at 11:19 AM
Are you talking about the fact that DeMint was a senator and Palin a governor? Or that DeMint specifically said he wouldn’t run for a third term? Or that DeMint is a man and Palin is a woman? Or that DeMint wasn’t forced out of office by scores of vexatious lawsuits? The differences are manifold, but I’m not seeing anything germaine to the fact that DeMint was a quitter and is admired for it.
gryphon202 on January 27, 2013 at 11:19 AM
For those of you who are still upset with her decision not to run in 2012 and that it was a personal affront to you when she didn’t, let me offer a basketball analogy.
Palin, a 5′-6″ point guard dribbled down the court and upon seeing three seven-footers awaiting under the basket, she thought better of taking the ball to the hole and instead, passed it off to another teammate. She didn’t go sit on the bench. She stayed in the game, understanding what her role needed to be.
In other words, Palin was no fool. She learned that the numbers weren’t in her favor and it was not the right time to push the issue. Unlike Bachmann, Palin was willing to accept reality. 2012 was not her time to be at the point of the spear. Who knows what her role in 2016 and beyond will be? Whatever she decides, is fine with me. If she decides to run, fine. If not, fine.
NoNails on January 27, 2013 at 11:19 AM
Yeah, nothing like a good child-molester joke to put those damn dirty Palinistas in their place. /
Aitch748 on January 27, 2013 at 11:23 AM
Might have to start calling him Chester. ; )
Bmore on January 27, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Note the date. Heh.
DarkCurrent on January 27, 2013 at 11:25 AM
For those who don’t get the reference.
Chester.
Bmore on January 27, 2013 at 11:26 AM
nothing.
Only those duped by the LSM would see a difference in the fact both quit. the MSM didn’t make a fuss about Demint quitting because he wasn’t a direct threat to their liberal ideolgy like Palin was. Demint didn’t need to be destroyed by the liberals when he quit not even 1/2 way through his elected term. He didn’t need to be dragged behind the MSM pickup truck and smeared. that is the only difference that both did a good thing and quit the trappings of power for the private sector. I respect both for their actions on quitting.
unseen on January 27, 2013 at 11:26 AM
I can’t disagree with Gryphon202; I don’t expect Palin to run for office again. I suspect she’ll do what she has been doing: putting her energy into finding good people willing to run for office and helping them get elected.
Whatever — we need this woman. She fights. We don’t know yet precisely how she will fight, but I’m content to wait and see what she will do now that she’s no longer tied to Fox.
Aitch748 on January 27, 2013 at 11:28 AM
It was true in 2011 and its remains true. Palin is the ultimate outsider and when the people get fed up with the DC crooks she will run as an outsider and win. something Mitt could never hope to do. He was always seen as an insider and elite out of touch person.
unseen on January 27, 2013 at 11:30 AM
Two facts I personally see as settled questions:
A) America’s savior will not hail from the Republican Party, if there is even such a person to be found
B) Sarah Palin will not run for national office. Period. End of story. Full stop.
gryphon202 on January 27, 2013 at 11:32 AM
agreed on the last part. Still no sure about your first point. I’ll wait and see on that as the months go by. I could easily see her running in 2016 but I can also easily see her not. either way like you say we need this woman now more than ever as the GOPe insist on running up the white flag to Obama on point after point.
unseen on January 27, 2013 at 11:33 AM
You’re an ass.
Cindy Munford on January 27, 2013 at 11:33 AM
like I said above I can easily see her running and/or not running. If she runs she runs as the ultimate outsider.
As far as a savior. We might not get a savior and have to go through the horrors of a socialist/marxist for generations before people rise up and shake off the yoke. Palin is the type of person that could if elected rewind a lot of Obama’s policies quickly and maybe buy us more time. It will take longer than 8 years to save this country.
unseen on January 27, 2013 at 11:36 AM
It’s your own fault if you felt she betrayed you. Perhaps you would have been wise to accept the fact that she meant it when she said, “I haven’t decided yet”. That simple statement by her meant there were two options- either she’d run or she wouldn’t. You seem to think that by her considering a run, the only outcome was that she would run. Your mistake.
NoNails on January 27, 2013 at 11:37 AM
Right. Except it wasn’t. You might remember what happened the very next day.
DarkCurrent on January 27, 2013 at 11:38 AM
Yeah I remember. I also remember what happened on NOv 6th 2012 without Palin being on the scene. Do you?
unseen on January 27, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Congratulations, you got ‘Etch A Sketch’ a soul less apparatchik who spent more time attacking his own party, then he ever layed a finger on Obama, and he was shredded for that bit of charity,
narciso on January 27, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Se didn’t run in the primary..But you knew that..
Dire Straits on January 27, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Funny, I have never felt betrayed by Sarah, the GOPe plenty.
Bmore on January 27, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Morning Dire! The GOP will betray you! Lol! ; )
Bmore on January 27, 2013 at 11:53 AM
Yeah. Do you think Palin thinks she would have fared better? LOLz
DarkCurrent on January 27, 2013 at 11:53 AM
Good morning..
Dire Straits on January 27, 2013 at 11:54 AM
; )
Bmore on January 27, 2013 at 11:56 AM
I think she would have. I don’t know if that would have meant she’d win, but I don’t think her chances of winning were necessarily why she decided not to run.
By the by, I can’t help but notice that the Palin haters hardly acknowledge the Palinistas like myself who repeatedly said “Hang fire. She hasn’t made up her mind yet and she might not run.” Not as fun to mock us, is it?
gryphon202 on January 27, 2013 at 11:58 AM
Palin’s coattails are long as 2010 and 2012 showed. Most of the people she picked won on Nov6th 2012 unlike Mitt and gang.
But go ahead keep trashing her. It’s working out for the GOPe so well.
Mitt and the crossroads made it clear Palin nor her supporters wasn’t wanted nor needed in 2012 elections. They lost because of their stupidity. I see you and I would guess they still haven’t learned the lessons that 2012 gave us.
Mitt 2016! or someother insider moderate!
unseen on January 27, 2013 at 12:08 PM
There is a distinction between the craven, like the one who really started the Trig denialism, supported by Soros, and many in the Journolists, and the gullible sort who don’t know better.
narciso on January 27, 2013 at 12:09 PM
I’d guess because you were being realistic rather than engaging in ridiculous wishful thinking.
DarkCurrent on January 27, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Oh, brother. You two are a riot when it comes to Palin quitting before her first term was completed. DeMint was in office EIGHT YEARS. But you knew that.
LOL, yeah, the big difference is he’s a man and she’s a woman. Every other voter but you two are idiots.
Marcus on January 27, 2013 at 2:59 PM
and Palin was in Office for 8 years as Mayor, 3 years as Gov. your point?
oh that’s right you have none. Both quit their elected terms before the time was up. Again so what I wish all 536 of the idiots in Dc would quit. but they don’t they hold onto power and for most only death allows them to release it.
There is no difference between what Demint did and what Palin did. the fact that you can’t see that means are one of those useful idiots the left likes so much….
unseen on January 27, 2013 at 4:48 PM
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