Sarah Palin seems to be annoyed by her husband’s recent full throated endorsement of Newt Gingrich. Todd and Sarah are typically on the same page about things. It’s interesting that they’re so divided over a presidential candidate. Sarah says “dude went rogue” with his unplanned Gingrich endorsement. I wanna know who Bristol is endorsing.

This article titled “Sarah Palin will not run for president in 2012″ was written by Ewen MacAskill, for The Guardian on Wednesday 5th October 2011 23.19 UTC

Sarah Palin has ended her year-long tease of American conservatives by finally announcing she will not be joining the presidential race.

In a letter to supporters, Palin said: “After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for president of the United States.

“When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.”

Her departure clarifies the Republican field, with no other candidates likely to join the race at this late stage. The Republican contest is shaping up basically as between former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Texas governor Rick Perry, in spite of a recent surge in support for businessman Herman Cain.

As well as saying she was putting her family first, she added she could be more effective for the conservative cause in helping getting Tea Party supporters and other rightwingers elected to Congress, governorships and the White House rather than standing herself. She did not need a title to help America recover, she said.

“My decision is based upon a review of what commonsense conservatives and independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation’s governors to Congressional seats and the presidency.”

Still a strong voice in the Tea Party movement, she intends in the coming weeks to co-ordinate strategies to help Republicans retake the White House and Senate next year, and hold its control of the House.

Palin has long toyed with the idea of a presidential run but has come up against poor poll ratings. One of the most recent polls, in the Washington Post this week, showed two-thirds of Republicans did not want her to stand.

Palin rose to prominence in 2008 when she was the surprise choice of John McCain as his running mate against Barack Obama. She enjoyed high ratings among conservatives in the aftermath of the election and remains a popular figure on the right.

Last year, she seemed to be a likely contender for the presidency but with each month that passed this year, her chances became slimmer, and irritation crept in among her supporters over her indecision. She was too late, seeing the right-wing ground she would have sought to occupy already claimed by figures such as Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and now Texas governor Rick Perry.

She frequently left an impression that she would liked to have stood, turning up at key Republican events throughout the year that were attended by declared candidates.

She launched a tour this year accompanied by her family aboard a bus painted like a campaign one and arrived in New Hampshire at roughly the same time as Romney was there announcing his decision to stand.

In August, she dropped into Iowa as Republican candidates gathered for the Ames straw poll.

She developed a strong dislike of much of the media, with the exception of a few trusted friends at Fox, where she is a paid employee.

Some commentators predicted she would not stand because she feared the impact of renewed media scrutiny on her family, while others said she was enjoying the money from her new celebrity career too much to enter the fray.

She suffered a serious political setback with the attempted assassination of the Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, in January. The attempt came after Palin had put out a graphic saying that Giffords was in her crosshairs. Although there was no evidence linking that to the shooting, it opened up a debate about whether rhetoric in American politics had become too violent.

In her letter, Palin thanked her supporters who had defended her throughout the years and encouraged her to stand. She insisted that her decision not to stand meant she will fade out of politics and she set out her agenda for smaller government.

“I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for president where our candidates must embrace immediate action toward energy independence through domestic resource developments of conventional energy sources, along with renewables.
We must reduce tax burdens and onerous regulations that kill American industry, and our candidates must always push to minimise government to strengthen the economy and allow the private sector to create jobs.”

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Tucker Carlson posted a vile radio rant from Mike Tyson about Sarah Palin’s alleged affair with former basketball star Glen Rice. It’s extraordinarily vulgar, obscene, outrageous, racist, sick, and abhorrent. Had the comments been made about any other female politician (or any other female period) the outrage from liberal precincts would be boiling over. But since it’s Palin the media could care less. At least most of the media…

Enter Greta Van Susteren. She’s been fuming over Tucker’s decision to post Tyson’s rant on The Daily Caller. In an epic 900-word blog post, she called the post “disgusting” and called Carlson a “pig” for posting it.

Last night, Greta invited Tucker Carlson on to discuss the matter and it was pretty much all downhill from there.

President Obama didn’t personally call the Tea Party terrorists during the debt ceiling debate. But his cronies in the Democrat party and the media did. The guy who asked the country after the shooting in Tucson to tone down the violent rhetoric hasn’t said a word to any of his cronies. For the last week democrat politicians and the Democrat Media Complex have labeled Tea Party members in Congress “terrorists” and talked about them “holding guns to the heads of the American people.” They’ve been called “hostage takers” waging “jihad” against the economy.

Bill O’Reilly discussed this very issue in his Talking Points earlier tonight:

Sarah Palin punched back tonight during an interview with Sean Hannity. Instead of wasting time on Democrats in Congress, Palin went straight for Obama. And she went straight for the jugular.

If we were really domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us wouldn’t he? I mean he didn’t have a problem with paling around with Bill Ayers back in the day when he kicked off his political career in Bill Ayers apartment, and shaking hands with Chavez and saying he doesn’t need any preconditions with meeting dictators or wanting to read US Miranda rights to alleged suspected foreign terrorists. No if we were real domestic terrorists I think President Obama wouldn’t have a problem with us.

Holy sh*t that was good. You know that’s gonna get under Barry’s skin. Well played, Sarah.

Why wait?

We always here this threat from leftists ahead of presidential elections. Sadly, they never follow through.

(H/T Right Scoop)

Looking forward to seeing this!

Thousands of Sarah Palin’s emails from her time as governor of Alaska have been released on a frothing liberal media. The New York Slimes Times is asking for volunteers to help comb through the emails for any dirt. MSNBC is live blogging the event. A who’s who of liberal groups is already on the scene in Alaska to help go through the documents.

Just think, if the media would’ve put half this much effort into vetting Barack Obama he wouldn’t be president right now.

Rush Limbaugh is calling it a “search and destroy” mission against Palin.

(H/T Weasel Zippers)

Here’s Sarah Palin hanging out with some regular folks while on her bus tour.

(H/T Right Scoop TV)