RSSSarah Palin Hints At A Third-Party Candidacy
Carl Andrews | February 8, 2010
It seems that Sarah Barracuda has her sights set on the White House.
A favorite of many conservative Republicans, she now has the enthusiastic support of the Tea Party Nation.
Shortly after a speech at the first national Tea Party Convention, Palin asked “How’s that Hopey Changey stuff working out for ya’?”
The support of the Tea Party could lead Palin to consider a third-party candidacy as Ross Perot did in ‘92 and ‘96.
Sarah Palin, the former US presidential running-mate, on Sunday hinted strongly she was preparing a 2012 presidential bid and suggested that Barack Obama needed to take radical steps, such as going to war with Iran, to boost his chance of winning a re-election.
Ms Palin’s comments to Fox News Sunday followed a provocative speech on Saturday to the Tea Party Convention in Nashville.
Amid chants of “Run, Sarah, run”, Ms Palin told the Nashville audience: “America is ready for another revolution and you are part of this.”
The former governor of Alaska also mocked the president as a “charismatic guy with a tele-prompter” and accused him of being a “professor of law at a lecture” rather than the US commander-in-chief.
However, it was Ms Palin’s comments about Mr Obama on Sunday that are likely to cause most controversy. “Things would dramatically change if he [Mr Obama] decided to toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and our allies,” she told Fox.
“Say he decided to declare war on Iran, or decided to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do.”
Pressed on whether she would run in 2012, she said: “I would if I believe that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family.”
However, Ms Palin, who took a fee of $100,000 (€71,400, £62,500) for the speech, which she said she would donate to the “cause”, has also hinted that her association with the Tea Party movement, a large chunk of which boycotted the Nashville convention because it charged $549 a ticket, could open the way to a third-party candidacy along the lines of Ross Perot’s 1992 and 1996 presidential bids. “You’ve got both party machines running scared,” she said.
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