Bill Kristol: Sarah Palin Could Possibly ‘Rehabilitate’ Herself With 2014 Senate Win

[big_dog]

During an exclusive to web interview with “This Week,” Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said Sarah Palin — after having hastily stepped down as Alaska’s governor in 2009 – might be able to rehabilitate her political career by winning a Senate race in her home state next year.

“I think the way Palin would possibly resurrect herself, if that’s the right word, or rehabilitate herself I guess a better way of putting it, [is] run for Senate in Alaska in 2014,” Kristol said.

“I’m not urging that, I’m just saying if I were her adviser I would say ‘take on the incumbent, you have to win a primary, then you have to beat an incumbent Democrat. It’s not easy.’ But if she did that, suddenly if she can imagine that, you know, ‘Sarah Palin, freshman senator, January 15, in Washington having beaten an incumbent,’ that would be pretty interesting,” he said.

Kristol told ABC’s Benjamin Bell earlier in the interview that Palin’s having left in the middle of her first term as governor had created a “big problem” for the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.

“I think stepping down as governor of Alaska was a big problem. People don’t like to see a candidate, a governor or executive, absent some medical reason or whatever, just leave office early. And she’d been a good governor…of Alaska, until then,” Kristol said.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/08/bill-kristol-sarah-palin-could-possibly-rehabilitate-herself-with-2014-senate-win/

[louis-t]

1. She can't even spell 'rehabilitate'.

She's a fucking idiot.

[Auggie]

2. +1

[madrchsod]

3. +2

[big_dog]

4. Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads

[SummerSnow]

5. Those who would vote for her will need rehabilitation

[brewens]

6. Her worshipers are the ones that could use a little rehab, if that's the

right word, or deprogramming would be a better way of putting it. Deprogramming teabaggers would leave them catatonic I suppose. Would that be an improvement?

[mike_c]

7. wait a minute-- Kristol says Palin in the senate would be "interesting....?"

That's not even close to the word I would have chosen!

[Scuba]

8. Betty Ford couldn't rehabilitate Snow Snookie.

[Thor_MN]

9. Bill's being a bit mistyoptical....

Bill, lay off the pre-interview scotch...

[tanyev]

10. But, Bill, if she won, then she'd have to, y'know, work.

She's past that now.

[marble falls]

11. I hope Bill Krystol recovers from his stroke. I he suggesting that she rehabilitate herself for ....

a White House run in 2016 with two years in the Senate? Half Governor and Third Senator Palin.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Chances are better of her regaining her virginity.

What has Kristol been drinking?

[cstanleytech]

13. They had better tell her its a 12 year term though so

that if she wins she actually serves a full 6 year term.

[mac56]

19. DUZY!

[LiberalFighter]

28. That has to be the best response.

But she probably want to break her record for least amount of time on a job.


You know, someone should check to see how long she work as a broadcaster.

Maybe someone could ask her when she quit being a mom?

[FSogol]

14. LOL, Remember when Kristol thought he was the GOP Kingmaker? And he gave them Caribou Barbie?

Good times.

[jmowreader]

15. Rehabilitate herself into what? The new Michele Bachmann?

Sarah Palin is a crook. And if she runs for office again the Anchorage Daily News and Juneau Empire will take no small pleasure in exposing her criminal ass, and her opponent's victory speech will begin "Officer, take that woman into custody."

The other problem is Palin could never, in a million years, be a junior member of a group. She's GOT to be the top dog, and there are a whole shitload of senators, on both sides of the aisle, who've been in office since Palin was college-hopping who wouldn't let her.

[mgcgulfcoast]

16. she would lose by 30%

[Kablooie]

17. We need a Senator with their own reality show.

But it would be better if they wouldn't get it cancelled.

[pangaia]

18. I didn't know Bill the Mouth was even still alive.

[Tippy]

20. Bill Kristol.. is an idiot

[CTyankee]

21. He was on Morning Joe spouting this horseshit today. Eugene Robinson said out loud what I was

thinking, "Does she even WANT to?"

[Mike Daniels]

22. “I’m not urging that" (her running) - That's telling in and of itself

Kristol seems to be indicating that even he knows that Palin is a disaster who would only hurt the GOP in the 2014 cycle.

[ljm2002]

23. Why would people vote for her as Senator...

...which is a 6-year term, when she has already shown she is incapable of serving the shorter 4-year term as Governor of Alaska?

Any decent politician would ream her on that issue alone.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

24. Kristol is hallucinating again

[yellowcanine]

25. Fantasizing in the shower is more like it.....

With soap on a rope.

[Lint Head]

26. When did Bill Kristol stop being full of shit?

[alittlelark]

27. Kristol could rehabilitate himself by....

1. Finding a soul.
2. Using it to understand the catastrophic damage he has enabled.
3. Spending the rest of his life working to improve the human condition.


Sarah is but a fart in the wind.

[maxsolomon]

29. maybe in Arizona

but i think Alaska's had enough of being laughed at

[classysassy]

32. True,Arizona have enough simple minded rednecks to elect Bozo the clown.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Hey, Bill:

Keep Fucking That Chicken!

[fujiyama]

31. How could someone so wrong about everything

still get a venue or forum to spout off his less than worthless opinions?

Palin will rehabilitate her image, just like we'll be greeted as liberators in Iran or Syria or wherever Kristol and his band of necon loonies want to take us next.