White House in 2012 by doing two things yesterday, Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin looks for open door to 2012 White House run
Sarah Palin fuelled speculation that she will run for the White House in 2012 by doing two things yesterday: poking fun at herself at a famous journalists’ dinner in Washington — a ritual for presidential hopefuls — and visiting Iowa, site of the first nominating contest.
Mrs Palin, last year’s Republican vice-presidential candidate, made a rare appearance in Washington, as guest speaker at the winter dinner of the Gridiron Club of leading Washington journalists. It is a venue at which many presidential hopefuls have appeared, including Barack Obama.
The idea is to be funny and self-deprecating. Mrs Palin, the former Alaska governor, managed both, in addition to aiming a few barbs at John McCain’s campaign staff of last year, with whom she had a now famously poisonous relationship.
Referring to her current roadshow across America promoting her memoir, Going Rogue, Mrs Palin said: “The view is so much better from inside the bus than under it.” Several of Mr McCain’s staff last year briefed against Mrs Palin after the Republican ticket lost to Mr Obama, and heaped a lot of blame on her for the election loss.
Mrs Palin was ridiculed last year for saying, in a disastrous television interview, that her qualifications for office included that “you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska”.
At the dinner, she said to much laughter that she liked her Washington hotel because “I came down from my hotel room and I could see the Russian Embassy”. Mrs Palin, who frequently lambasts the Washington media, said: “Sometimes you’ve just got to trust your instincts. And when you don’t, you end up in places like this.”
She added: “It’s good to be here, really, in front of this audience of leading journalists and intellectuals, or as I like to call it, a death panel.”
Mrs Palin could not resist a dig at Vice-President Joe Biden, her counterpart in last year’s election, who has thinning hair and who in the past has tried to slow down his balding by having hair transplants.
Mrs Palin, referring to Going Rogue, said that if the election had turned out differently, “I could be overseeing the signing of bailout cheques and Vice-President Biden could be on the road selling his book ‘Going Rogaine’.” Rogaine is a hair loss treatment.
Mrs Palin also joked that she had originally thought of entitling her book ‘How To Look Like a Million Bucks, For Only $150,000’. In one of the controversies surrounding her candidacy, the campaign spent at least $150,000 on her wardrobe.
Mrs Palin also visited Iowa yesterday as part of her book tour. The state opens the presidential nominating season. No politician arrives in Iowa without realising that any appearance will be seen as evidence of serious consideration of a White House run. A string of potential Republican candidates have visited the Hawkeye State in recent weeks.
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