President Barack Obama won’t be re-elected in 2012 unless he can “toughen up” on national security, according to Sarah Palin. The former Governor of Alaska believes that declaring war on Iran could help the president get re-elected.
“Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decided really to come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do,” Palin told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sunday. “That changes the dynamics in what we can assume is going to happen between now and three years.”
Palin clarified that she doesn’t think that Obama would cynically “play the war card” to help his 2012 bid. “I’m saying if he did, things would dramatically change if he decided to toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and our allies,” she said.
Palin said she doesn’t think Obama would be re-elected if he ran today.
Obama could find himself going up against the former governor when he runs for re-election. Palin told Chris Wallace that she wasn’t ruling out the possibility of running for office. “I won’t close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future,” she said.
This woman is a loose cannon. She needs to be shut down, before it’s too late.
“Play the war card?”
It really is all just a game to these people.
Failed on Palin trying to sound like she knows what the hell is going on and what to do. Ignorance, it seems, isn’t hard to change after all. Here’s proof.
LOL. Yea, thats great palin.Did you write that in your hand, so that you can remember.? Your a joke Palin and the worst part is that there are americans that would actually vote for you, so sad.
1. To the harpy: We did stupid for 8 years recently, we are still recovering, we do not need more stupid in 2012.
2. Is she one of those fundamentalists who wants to hurry along the rapture? I keep asking, as I have yet to meet one face to face, but I read that there are folks out there who believe in the second coming and are trying to hurry up the process to be with their maker sooner…. Scary, to me.
This woman is the best thing that ever happened to the Democratic party.
Or better still – invade Alaska
* It has oil
* We get to sell weapons to both sides
* Nobody would object to regime change
* Friendly country next door to fly from
* USA guaranteed to be on the winning side
* It will make Civil War (II) reenactments much cooler, with jets and tanks instead of horses and cannons.
First of all, the president can’t declare war. Only Congress. And they have only done it three times, most recently December 8, 1941.
Second, the primary reason lots of us voted for Obama in the first place was that he was the most anti-war.
Third, I predict that the “tea baggers” will be forgotten in a few years, just like the “Promise Keepers”. Of course I could be wrong and they could be remembered just like the Klan.
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She’s saying just what the networks want to hear. Just like Ann Coutier. Think about it, if Palin changed her tune, would anyone still listen to her?
Only able to listen to 64 seconds before I threw up a little.
From what I heard, never mind the whiny nonsense she said. The real message is her conniving through process about doing tings for political gain. “Start a war to shake things up”.
Wow. Scary
This women is stupid, talk about bush part 3
I will vote for the first presidential candidate with the balls to say “Fuck Isreal. They can deal with their own problems.”
1. Lefties think with their hearts unless they’re trying to embezzel. That’s why they don’t understand that keeping a war on the oposition’s turf is a good idea.
2. Lefties can’t read an opinion poll unless they design it themselves so it comes out the
way they want.
3. Lefties still haven’t learned that Socialism
has been demonstrated to be a complete failure in very big ways several times.
4. Lefties are worried about loosing their personal freedom if it even remotely affects their ability to consume pot.
5. Lefties always think that socialism is great because they are spending someone else’s money
or they feel very guilty about how they got their own.
6. OBAMA might pretend to be an intellectual, but he’s only managed to make almost everything he’s touched so far worse than it was when he started. Just exactly where is the money supposed to come from to pay for just his PORK bill alone?
7. Being an OBAMA fan does not also automatically make you an intellectual – no matter what your education might have been.
One needs to look at the world realisticly instead of thru the rose colored glasses of
Marx, Mao and John Lennon.
She’s a kook. So by her own words a war with Iran is the best answer to a low approval rating for the President.
Everyone think of the wackiest and most obscene candidate for 2012.
I will bet Palin will win the Presidency. Only in America does the crazy shine through.
Because a sitting president would think it’s a good idea to follow the advice of someone politically opposed to him or her, who is reportedly contemplating running against him or her at the next election.
Um.. Right.
If she were 5’3 and 175 lbs, she’d still be the anonymous mayor of some anonymous rural town in a mostly meaningless state.
Hitler had some interesting rhetoric too… and it was mostly about making the country great again.
She was going off of a Pat Buchanan column Will Obama Play the War Card?
I don’t see the big deal here other than Palin Derangement Syndrome.
Bend it like Reagan.
1) create or amplify deficits: Done
2) start or increase spending: Done
3) create or continue military operations: Done
4) look and sound good on TV: Done
Which is more important, solving the countries problems or getting re-elected? It seems according to Palin, the Tea Party people do not care about fixing the problems they just want to start wars, continue to spend money and sit around praying.
Hurray for politics!!!
Most comments here simply didn’t listen for the crux of the statement: she implied that Obama can manipulate public by entering the war for the specific purpose of being re-elected as state of war would make irrelevant all of his other shortcomings. Exactly the reason Bush was elected for a second term. It was not advice, just true observation of how voters behave.
I’m sure our President will give her advice all the consideration it deserves.