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Nazis on the moon! War in space! A Sarah Palin lookalike as president of the U.S.! Is Iron Sky the perfect movie, or what?
‘Not too late’ to join Republican Primary race: Sarah Palin
Tea Party champion Sarah Palin, who has already ruled out a 2012 presidential run, on Monday attempted to dangle her name anew as a possible Republican candidate, although it’s probably too late.
In an interview to air on Fox Business Network’s Follow the Money program, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president was asked whether she would still consider a run for the White House.
“It’s not too late for folks to jump in,” Palin said. “Who knows what will happen in the future.” (Photo: Lee Seung-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images)
Duck! Projectiles still fly as favoured means of protest
Vespasian was a Roman Emperor, once upon a time, but before he landed the top job in the big Italian city he was just a political hack working in the hinterlands of the Empire’s African Province as the pay-taxes-or-be-crucified “proconsul.” Tacitus, the Roman historian, described Vespasian’s style of governance as “infamous and odious.” And perhaps it was, since his financial rigour and pennywise ways prompted locals to pelt him with turnips sometime around 63 AD.
Two thousand years later, food and other assorted objects are still being hurled in protest — the latest item being a hot dog aimed at Tiger Woods. The golfer was caught in the crosshairs of a fan who fired a wiener (and a bun) his way while he stood over a putt at a tournament in California on the weekend. “When I looked up, the hot dog was already in the air,” said Mr. Woods, who missed the putt. It was the latest, and possibly most evocative, of objects that have taken flight in recent years at other high profile personages in a variety of venues. Post columnist Joe O’Connor assesses some recent hits:
The first debate of the Republican Presidential Primary happened this week. National Post editorial cartoonist Gary Clement on the elephant in the room.
Why a Sarah Palin presidential campaign is hopeless
John Dickerson: Sarah Palin says George Washington is her favourite founder because he was reluctant to serve but answered the call of duty. She likes to think of herself this way, answering the needs of a clamoring electorate. That is part of the cinematic beauty of her bus tour: The crowds that greet her can represent that call to take up their standard and head into presidential battle on their behalf.
There’s only one problem: The call isn’t coming. That’s the clear message in a new CBS News poll of the Republican field. Taken after the Palin bus tour started rolling, it asked Republicans whether Palin should run. By a 20-point margin (54% to 34%), Republicans said she should not run. Among Tea Party supporters, where Palin has her strongest following, she is also waved off against a run. Half say she should not run; 38% say she should. That isn’t so much a referendum on her bus tour as it is a sign that the entire months-long Palin flirtation with the presidency is not creating an appetite.
Photo: Sarah Palin greets a protester as in Seabrook, New Hampshire, June 2, 2011. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
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Sarah Palin rides on a motorcycle before participating in the “Rolling Thunder” rally May 29, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia.
Barbara Kay: Love her or hate her, Palin changed feminism
‘Mama Grizzly’ is less interested in which sex folds more laundry or changes more diapers, and far more consumed by conservative, gender-neutral issues such as freer markets, lowered deficits and reduced government.
Sarah Palin illustration by National Post graphics editor Richard Johnson.
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David Frum: What Sarah Palin should have said about Tucson shooting
The shooting in Arizona shocked the U.S. into grief – and presented Sarah Palin with an immediate political problem: her now-notorious gunsight map.
