Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will not seek the Republican nomination to challenge Barack Obama for the White House, she said in the following statement:
Wasilla, Alaska
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. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.
My decision is based upon a review of what common sense 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. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the “fundamental transformation” of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.
From the bottom of my heart I thank those who have supported me and defended my record throughout the years, and encouraged me to run for President. Know that by working together we can bring this country back – and as I’ve always said, one doesn’t need a title to help do it.
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 minimize government to strengthen the economy and allow the private sector to create jobs. Those will be our priorities so Americans can be confident that a smaller, smarter government that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people can better serve this most exceptional nation.
In the coming weeks I will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing the President, re-taking the Senate, and maintaining the House.
Thank you again for all your support. Let’s unite to restore this country! God bless America. - Sarah Palin
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5 Responses
As a Republican, I think she made the right decision. She’s great, I like her ideas, but she’s unelectable. Hopefully, so is Hussein.
Michele Bachmann must be delighted. She’s clearly out of the running, but with Palin’s recusal, she can delude herself a bit longer.
The GOP race seems to be between Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum, with Herman Cain and maybe Newt Gingrich or possibly Ron Paul being served as side dishes.
(My choice, hands-down, is Rick Santorum, who I have met, with Newt Gingrich in second.)
At last she realized that she’s not Presidential material.
Most people in the race are non persons looking to get lucky for the great job much like Obama
Who is the HW bush or maybe a reagan in this race?
Reagan was a non person but he turned out to be big for the country.
Is there a special surprise or a special significance still to be found in this contest?
She is quite young for a politician, and does have small kids in the house. She also seems happy as a media personality (she did, after all, major in journalism in college, and she is comfortably upper middle class for the first time in her life as a result of her television performances). Expect her to be around in the future for a long time.
So now it seems that it is Perry vs Cain, and the winner goes against Romney for the right to replace Obama.