Sarah Palin announces run for U.S. House seat from Alaska

[Jose Garcia]

Source: Reuters

Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008, announced her run for Alaska's only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday.

It would be Palin's first run for public office since serving as John McCain's running mate in a campaign that saw Democrat Barack Obama elected president in November 2008.

"America is at a tipping point," Palin said in a statement released on her Twitter account announcing her candidacy. "As I've watched the far left destroy the country, I knew I had to step up and join the fight."

"At this critical time in our nation's history, we need leaders who will combat the left's socialist, big-government, America-last agenda," she said.

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/sarah-palin-announces-run-u-003759991.html

[madaboutharry]

1. She didn't even finish her term as governor, resigning

half way through her term.

Why would the people of Alaska vote for someone who would quit after one year?

Sarah Palin is a dumbass and a jerk. I hope the voters in Alaska have her number.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace I would tell him, I prefer Bitcoin or Ethereum"

[Roy Rolling]

35. So True

Republicans drag their feet endlessly on traditional campaign reform that tracks dollar donations, just to hide the source of their digital bribes which can’t be traced?

Nice racket . . .

[certainot]

43. they should know putin used limbaugh to force her onto mccain. limbaugh finally announced his

support for mccain minutees affter mccain announced palin was the VP choice - over more moderate picks. manfort was mccain's campaign cochair. the pick was announced minutes before the start of the limbaugh show the friday before the GOP convention. wihtout limbaugh the convention would have been a total disaster. palin was getting wooed by russian oil and gas and the talk radio cons had been hearing for years how putin/russia was living the ayn randian deregulation wet dream

palin's dem opponent should know that

[left-of-center2012]

2. She can see Washington from her front porch

[EndlessWire]

11. LOL! n/t

[3Hotdogs]

38. Well, that would enable her to exchange smoke signals with Putin. Maybe we will have peace

in the world, after all.

[brooklynite]

3. She's doomed; her announcement didn't mention Donald Trump...

[MacKasey]

4. She must need the money

[L. Coyote]

5. This is going to be an entertaining series of embarassments. Announce on April 1st!!

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[Rebl2]

6. She wants to

join mtg and boebert or whatever her name is. She will fit in greeeeart🙄🙄🙄

[sop]

7. Don't thnk the country could survive a steady dose of MTG, Boebert and Palin at the same time.

Hopefully all three will be defeated.

[Botany]

8. Isn't she living in Arizona now?

N/ t

[L. Coyote]

20. Wouldn't that be an interesting twist, not quailified and not knowing it.

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[Bristlecone]

26. Yeah, I thought she was living in Scottsdale.

Was my first thought.

[SpankMe]

9. I wouldn't worry

She'll serve one year and quit if she gets elected.

[LakeArenal]

15. Exactly. She can't take bad press.

[oldsoftie]

10. Who is the current office holder? Who else is running?

[former9thward]

14. Current holder, Rep. Young, died recently.

Candidates of every party will compete in a June 11 primary; the four who get the most votes will appear on an Aug. 16 ranked-choice ballot.

[Lasher]

22. And today is the filing deadline for that special election.

It's going to be a crowded race. Sarah's name recognition might help her. Or hurt her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Alaska%27s_at-large_congressional_district_special_election#Declared

[Budi]

12. She must be out of money.

She'd fit right in with the freak fringe they now have.
MTG, Boebert...🤑

[SouthBayDem]

16. She did file a losing libel lawsuit.

Gotta pay the legal costs back somehow.

[LudwigPastorius]

17. "Sarah Palin announces run for U.S. House seat from Alaska"

"As I've watched the far left destroy the country, I knew I had to step up and join the fight."


Translation: "I've run out of money, and I need to tap the moronic rubes again."

[LiberalFighter]

18. She needs to move to Russia.

[ificandream]

24. But can't she see Russia from Alaska? LOL...

[Traildogbob]

19. Another monkey to howl

What do you call a large group of howling monkey’s? Not a herd, or pack, or flock, or pride, or School but it has a name.

[LudwigPastorius]

44. "What do you call a large group of howling monkey's?"

...a Boebert of monkeys?

[Traildogbob]

45. Ha!

Love it. A keeper,

[hatrack]

21. Nope, AK is done with her. She. Quit.

My brother's lived there since the mid-1970s, and people are just done with her.

She ran away to run for VP, which didn't pan out.

Then she quit her job as governor because reporters were being all mean and . . . asking questions!!!

Then she moved out of state to be on the tee-vee and flap her gums at CPAC and the Iowa straw poll.

Then she appeared on The Masked Singer.

And she's not nearly crazy enough to win the primary these days anyway.

[Roy Rolling]

37. Maybe Not Crazy ENOUGH

But only because the bar has been raised since she was last a national embarrassment.

[SunSeeker]

23. Palin announces run on April Fool's Day. Satire is dead. nt

[AverageOldGuy]

25. I read somewhere . . .

. . . that about 40 Alaskan political figures have expressed interest in running for the vacant seat. If this is true, things likely will come down to a primary with 3-4 candidates. The outcome of the primary will tell us a lot about Sarah Palin's popularity in Alaska . . . and I'll bet she's nowhere near as popular as she thinks she is.

[Totally Tunsie]

27. So, not Borowitz, not The Onion...

It MUST be April Fools. Tag - You're it, Sarah!

[Rhiannon12866]

28. Good Grief!

[Grokenstein]

29. "April Fool!!"

"No, she's serious. She's running."
"I know! April Fool!!"

[LittleGirl]

30. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha nt

[pecosbob]

31. If she wins I hope Repukes make her House Minority Leader

She is the GOP incarnate...ignorant, vile and deceitful.

[Evolve Dammit]

32. Just make it stop...... Caribou Barbie is baaack. Just when you thought GOP couldn't sink lower

Guess there's always movement in a swirling toilet bowl. Let's see what's on her reading list now?? "Art of the Deal" perhaps? "Mein Kamph" always a hit with fascists. Perhaps the memoirs of Jefferson Davis? ok I made that one up.

[bucolic_frolic]

33. "I can put Russia in the House"

She told us long ago where this was headed.

[twodogsbarking]

34. It isn't far left, yet, but keep talking.

[NCjack]

36. She was not good enough to be hired by Trump Administration.

[left-of-center2012]

39. She heard about those Republican ...

... orgies and cocaine

[The Jungle 1]

40. She collects the Alaskan Permanent Fund dividend every year.

The Alaskan Permanent Fund dividend is socialism at is finest. All citizens will get a 2500 dollar check this year.
So why does Palin participate in it. I thought she hated socialism.

[Stuart G]

41. "April Fools "....joke in my opinion....????....maybe not????

[LiberalFighter]

42. Does Alaska want a big loser?

[inthewind21]

52. She

already won that title in 2008.

[Akoto]

46. Article is from April 1. Please be April Fools, please be April Fools...

[ificandream]

48. An April fool's joke. Literally. Send in the clown.

[Polybius]

49. Why would she run for the House and not the Senate?

Murkowski is not in a position to win a primary this year.

[AnnetteChaffee]

50. oh dear lord

mushmouth wordsalad again? Surely Alaska has learned their lesson. But god knows it seems like the stupider and more ignorant, the more the GOP loves them. It boggles the mind.

Annette

[olddad65]

51. Alaska, you can do much better than this clown.

[AngryOldDem]

53. Can't let MTG and Boebert hog all the crazy.