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Palin has eye on a seat in US Senate

Ian Munro, New York

November 14, 2008

FORMER Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has indicated she may move to the US Senate if disgraced Alaskan senator Ted Stevens is removed from office.

Continuing her week-long media blitz with an interview on CNN, Mrs Palin said that if she could better serve Alaska in the Senate, she would consider it.

She was speaking before her starring role at a conference of Republican governors in Miami where she was to discuss future policies in a move seen as building her national profile and possibly setting up a run for the presidency in 2012.

"I believe I have a contract with Alaskans to serve. I have two more years in my term at this point ? as Governor," she said. "If something changed dramatically and if it were acknowledged up there that I could be better put to use for my state in the US Senate, I would certainly consider it."

Even if he is able to win his seat, which has not been decided following last week's vote, Senator Stevens' future is clouded by his conviction last month on corruption charges.

After Senator Obama's victory last week Mrs Palin was criticised for polarising voters and for hindering the Republican campaign's attempts to win over independent voters.

Freed of the constraints of the presidential campaign, she has conducted a series of television interviews this week to defend herself.
 
Good luck with that.  Ted Stevens is losing the close Senate race; as of this morning Democrat Mark Begich has a 814-vote lead.  If he wins, there goes her Senate dreams  :razz:
 
awww, Ted's losing now.  I was hoping Palin would go.  I love good comedy.  Plus I was hoping that some day during a heated debate Sen. Byrd would just get up and hit her upside the head with his pocket constitution.
 
This is getting ridiculous now......

Awkward press conference for Palin

MIAMI (CNN) ? Two hours before Thursday morning?s press conference at the Republican Governors Association ? her first since the Republican presidential ticket lost last week ? Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was still scheduled to appear alone. Instead, she spoke with a row of fellow governors standing silently behind her.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told CNN producer Evan Glass that they all met at 9 a.m. ? an hour-and-a-half before the press conference?s scheduled start time ? and by then it had been "decided" that they'd all go out together.

An RGA official told CNN the reason for the change is a "long story."

He said that when the governors were all at their private morning meeting, someone brought up the desire to get beyond what happened in the McCain campaign and look towards 2009 and 2010.

Then, this source said, Palin piped up and said she agreed that she didn't want to talk about the past. That's all she has been talking about!



A surprising moment occurred late this afternoon in a press roundtable featuring Govs. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Jon Huntsman of Utah, former Ebay CEO and McCain national campaign co-chairman Meg Whitman, and former OMB Director Rob Portman. A reporter asked whether they would have felt comfortable with Palin as president. After a moment of awkward silence, there were several answers given?but no one said "yes."
 
Can she just go away now?  Please Governor.  Go hunt moose or something.  We need a bit of a break before you "re-introduce" yourself.
 
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