Sarah hints at White House run
Sarah Palin gave her clearest open flirtattion yet with a presidential run today, saying there's "no one" more qualified for that type of multi-tasking job than "a woman, a mom."
After saying she's still considering it but doesn't have an answer, Palin told a gathering of Long Island business officials that no one immediately comes to mind for who she would back if she doesn't run. Continue Reading
“I don’t have a name to give you right now, but what I would look for in character is someone who’s been on the front lines understanding how to administer and how to lead a team. ... Gosh, nobody’s more qualified [for the] mujltitaksing than a woman, a mom… who’s administered locally, state, with energy isues, so maybe a mayor, a governor maybe.
During her appearance before the Long Island Association, a rare, free-wheeling public appearance for the former Alaska governor, Palin stood by her support for the "freedoms" in gun-buying that exist today. She said she prays for the "full recovery" of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords but that her would-be assassin was "an evil sick person" who was intent on "fulfilling his mission."
Asked about last month's shooting in Tucson — and the Long Island Railroad shooting that claimed the life of Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's husband Dennis in 1993 — Palin said "there are already on the books many gun control measures and I do support those. ... "I don’t support taking away even more freedoms from the good guys. …The bad guys aren’t going to follow the laws that are on the books today. They’re not going to follow any new laws that are put on the books either."
Certainly out hearts go out to the victims and pray for the full recovery of Gabby Giffords," Palin said, adding, "the criminal, he was an evil sick person. And adding another law to the book would not I believe have prohibited him from somehow some way fulfilling his mission and the mission he was on was to harm fellow human beings."
Palin also used the opportunity to blast President Barack Obama over government debt and mocked First Lady Michelle Obama over pushing breast-feeding today a packed crowd at a Long Island business group, saying the White House is keeping the country on the "wrong road" in the wake of the new budget rollout.
“ I think that’s an overstatement to even say that we are even making a dent” in the national debt,” Palin said. “It’s not even really a dent…(it’s) a little thumbprint there.”
She added, “It amazed me the other day watching the president ….tell the American public, and the press is letting him get away with saying, his new (plan)….doesn’t add to the national deb. That’s not true. His spending plan does add to the national debt…that is the wrong road to be on. That is not what’s going to cure the economic ills in our country.”
Palin, who is considering a White House run in 2012, charged that Obama is “trying to get away with telling the American” public “that his plan is a good plan”
And she defended her swipes at the press, saying, “That’s sorta what I do.”
As for breast-feeding, she waded into the discussion about the first lady's promotion of breast-feeding babies, saying, "No wonder Michelle Obama's telling everybody, 'you'd better breastfeed your baby.' Yeah, you'd better, because the price of milk is so high right now!"
The business group’s president, Kevin Law – a Democrat who used to work for Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy – invited Palin several weeks ago to speak to their function in Woodbury.
The LIA has host several political bigwigs in the past, most recently former president Bill Clinton last fall.
Both former Presidents Bush appeared together before the group last year, which has also heard from Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani in the past.
But the Palin appearance was eagerly anticipated, with a crush of media showing up about four hours in advance.
