“If God wants me to do it I will,” Palin pledged to an enthusiastic audience during a discussion last week with New Apostolic Reformation leader Ché Ahn, Right Wing Watch reported.
Palin would be running against Lisa Murkowski, a Republican who has not been as steadfast in her support of Donald Trump as most others in the GOP in Congress.
“I would say you guys better be there for me this time, because a lot of people were not there for me last time,” she added, chiding the conservative Christian audience for what she said was their insufficient support during her 2008 vice presidential campaign with Sen. John McCain.
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Palin was a relative unknown when McCain picked her to run against Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The campaign was a disaster for the Republican party as Palin was widely mocked for her perceived ignorance and unsuitability to be one heartbeat away from the presidency. Obama won clearly.
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During the run, Palin was ruthlessly deemed an outside-the-beltway lightweight who didn’t have the clout to potentially step into the top job. A “Saturday Night Live” portrayal by Tina Fey follows her to this day.
But Palin’s rise to prominence is now seen as a key moment on the road to the presidency of Donald Trump.
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Her time on the national stage prefigured both the anti-tax Tea Party movement and the rise of the ex-reality TV host from New York, who was impeached twice and whose time in the White House ended with the deadly assault on the Capitol on 6 January in service of his lies about electoral fraud.
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Palin revealed she is keeping an eye on the race, noting dismissively that there was already a “female Republican” who had jumped into the contest but that Palin had “never heard of her.”
That Republican, Alaska Department of Administration commissioner Kelly Tshibaka, has already been endorsed by former President Trump, who is keen to knock off the Alaska Senator over her vote to convict him on charges of “inciting an insurrection” in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot.
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In her remarks, Palin also defended her decision to resign as governor of the state back in 2009.
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“There’s a difference between quitting and saying enough is enough,” she said, complaining about a stream of ethics probes and FOIA requests initiated by the Obama administration and outside liberal groups.
“I knew that if I handed the reins … to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, he would continue for that last year, that fiscally and socially conservative agenda that I was elected upon.”
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