2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBill Kristol: Sarah Palin Could Possibly ‘Rehabilitate’ Herself With 2014 Senate Win
During an exclusive to web interview with This Week, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said Sarah Palin after having hastily stepped down as Alaskas governor in 2009 might be able to rehabilitate her political career by winning a Senate race in her home state next year.
I think the way Palin would possibly resurrect herself, if thats the right word, or rehabilitate herself I guess a better way of putting it, [is] run for Senate in Alaska in 2014, Kristol said.
Im not urging that, Im just saying if I were her adviser I would say take on the incumbent, you have to win a primary, then you have to beat an incumbent Democrat. Its not easy. But if she did that, suddenly if she can imagine that, you know, Sarah Palin, freshman senator, January 15, in Washington having beaten an incumbent, that would be pretty interesting, he said.
Kristol told ABCs Benjamin Bell earlier in the interview that Palins having left in the middle of her first term as governor had created a big problem for the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.
I think stepping down as governor of Alaska was a big problem. People dont like to see a candidate, a governor or executive, absent some medical reason or whatever, just leave office early. And shed been a good governor
of Alaska, until then, Kristol said.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/08/bill-kristol-sarah-palin-could-possibly-rehabilitate-herself-with-2014-senate-win/
louis-t
(23,292 posts)She's a fucking idiot.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)brewens
(13,582 posts)right word, or deprogramming would be a better way of putting it. Deprogramming teabaggers would leave them catatonic I suppose. Would that be an improvement?
mike_c
(36,281 posts)That's not even close to the word I would have chosen!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Bill, lay off the pre-interview scotch...
tanyev
(42,554 posts)She's past that now.
marble falls
(57,081 posts)a White House run in 2016 with two years in the Senate? Half Governor and Third Senator Palin.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)What has Kristol been drinking?
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)that if she wins she actually serves a full 6 year term.
mac56
(17,566 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)But she probably want to break her record for least amount of time on a job.
You know, someone should check to see how long she work as a broadcaster.
Maybe someone could ask her when she quit being a mom?
FSogol
(45,484 posts)Good times.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Sarah Palin is a crook. And if she runs for office again the Anchorage Daily News and Juneau Empire will take no small pleasure in exposing her criminal ass, and her opponent's victory speech will begin "Officer, take that woman into custody."
The other problem is Palin could never, in a million years, be a junior member of a group. She's GOT to be the top dog, and there are a whole shitload of senators, on both sides of the aisle, who've been in office since Palin was college-hopping who wouldn't let her.
mgcgulfcoast
(1,127 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)But it would be better if they wouldn't get it cancelled.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Tippy
(4,610 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)thinking, "Does she even WANT to?"
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)Kristol seems to be indicating that even he knows that Palin is a disaster who would only hurt the GOP in the 2014 cycle.
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...which is a 6-year term, when she has already shown she is incapable of serving the shorter 4-year term as Governor of Alaska?
Any decent politician would ream her on that issue alone.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)alittlelark
(18,890 posts)1. Finding a soul.
2. Using it to understand the catastrophic damage he has enabled.
3. Spending the rest of his life working to improve the human condition.
Sarah is but a fart in the wind.
maxsolomon
(33,337 posts)but i think Alaska's had enough of being laughed at
classysassy
(3,783 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Keep Fucking That Chicken!
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)still get a venue or forum to spout off his less than worthless opinions?
Palin will rehabilitate her image, just like we'll be greeted as liberators in Iran or Syria or wherever Kristol and his band of necon loonies want to take us next.