So can senators quit halfway through their terms....

[Luminiferous]

When they get a better offer from Fox News?

Sarah Palin: I'm considering a Senate run


(CNN) – Sarah Palin may not be done with politics after all.

The former Alaska governor, who was also 2008's GOP vice presidential nominee, said Tuesday she's contemplating a bid for U.S. Senate against Democrat Mark Begich. He's up for re-election in 2014.

"I've considered it because people have requested me [to] consider it," Palin told conservative radio host Sean Hannity on his show. "I'm still waiting to see what the lineup will be. And hoping there will be some new blood, new energy. Not just kind of picking from the same old politicians in the state that come from political families."

Begich, a former mayor of Anchorage, was elected in 2008. He defeated longtime GOP Sen. Ted Stevens, who died in 2010 in a plane crash.

The 2014 race is labeled "lean Democratic" on the Cook Political Report, and the Rothenberg Political Report rates the race as toss up/tilt Democrat. Both are non-partisan political handicappers.

Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and Joe Miller, a Republican who lost a U.S. Senate bid in Alaska in 2010, have both said they'll run against Begich next year.

"Sen. Mark Begich has got to be replaced," Palin told Hannity. "He had not done what he had promised to do for the people of Alaska, which is to represent what it is the nation needs in terms of energy development."

"Because he's on the wrong side of the aisle, he has to go along to get along with his Democrat leadership, and that's a shame," she continued. "That's a waste of opportunity for our nation."

Palin, who currently acts as a commentator on the Fox News Channel, told CNN last month she would definitely hit the campaign trail for fellow Republicans next year.

"Time's-a-wasting. Things are moving really quickly and if we don't get out there and defend this republic then America will be transformed into something we do not recognize," she told CNN.

[eddie lee roth]

I guess you could say the cash from just being a "celebrity" is drying up.

[DEATH ROW JOE]

[Turner Coates]

[bonedog]

I understand that bashing Sarah Palin is the "hip thing to do" and "all the cool kids are doing it", but will someone please explain to me what this woman ever did to deserve all the hate? Can you not just say, "I disagree with her politically" and leave it at that? I disagree with Hilary Clinton, but I don't hate her nor wish ill will toward her.

[Turner Coates]

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sara ... inisms.htm

"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." --Sarah Palin, after being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between the two Koreas, interview on Glenn Beck's radio show, Nov. 24, 2010

"Dr. Laura: don't retreat...reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence "isn't American,not fair")" --Sarah Palin, in a Twitter message coming to the defense of Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the talk radio host who apologized and decided to retire from her highly-rated program after using the N-word on the air 11 times in 5 minutes, Aug. 18, 2010

"I love that smell of the emissions!" --Sarah Palin, at a motorcycle rally in Washington, D.C., where she rode in on a Harley, May 29, 2011

"Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it." --Sarah Palin, blaming the Gulf oil spill disaster on "extreme environmentalists," Facebook note, June 2, 2010

Sarah Palin, on writing notes on her hand during her Tea Party convention speech: "I didn't really had a good answer, as so often -- is me. But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before you look it up, I'll tell you what it says though. It says, hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it's good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, 'I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you,' and I'm like, 'Okay, I'm in good company.'" (March 5, 2010)

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." –-Sarah Palin, in a message posted on Facebook about Obama's health care plan, Aug. 12, 2009

"I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out." --Sarah Palin, referring to a department that does not exist while attempting to explain why as president she wouldn't be subjected to the same ethics investigations that compelled her to resign as governor of Alaska, ABC News interview, July 7, 2009

[Luminiferous]

I understand that bashing Sarah Palin is the "hip thing to do" and "all the cool kids are doing it", but will someone please explain to me what this woman ever did to deserve all the hate? Can you not just say, "I disagree with her politically" and leave it at that? I disagree with Hilary Clinton, but I don't hate her nor wish ill will toward her.

Nobody gives a shit to explain anything to you bonedunce, go back to trolling the Lounge..

[Crazy Levi]

She's one of the biggest embarrassments in the history of modern politics, and yes, I know that's saying something.

When dementia finally takes hold and John McCain can remember virtually nothing, he'll still know he hates Sarah Palin.

Her presence single-handedly made the 2008 campaign the most enjoyable and entertaining of my lifetime. Literally every day she did or said something that defied logic and prompted guffaws.

God, I hope she runs for Senator.

[bonedog]

She's one of the biggest embarrassments in the history of modern politics, and yes, I know that's saying something.

Your buddy Obama is doing just a swell job, isn't he?

[Danzig in the Dark]

She's one of the biggest embarrassments in the history of modern politics, and yes, I know that's saying something.

Your buddy Obama is doing just a swell job, isn't he?

Yes, he is. Thanks for noticing.

[MickeyG]

She's one of the biggest embarrassments in the history of modern politics, and yes, I know that's saying something.

Your buddy Obama is doing just a swell job, isn't he?

Whether you dislike Obama or not, there's no way in hell he's a bigger embarrassment than Palin. Americans everywhere should be ashamed shes gotten has far as she has politically.