Sarah Palin refuses to close door on run for White House in 2012
Former Alaska governor admits America may want 'someone a little more more conventional' as president
Sarah Palin has confirmed that she is not "closing the door" to a presidential run in 2012, promising that if she does run she would "take on the establishment on both sides of the aisle".
In an interview with the rightwing website Newsmax, Palin gives the clearest indication yet that she has her eyes set on a run for the White House in 2012. She says: "I just think that anyone is foolish to prematurely close any door that perhaps will be open for them."
But she adds that it is for the American people to decide, and gives a self-deprecating description of the kind of president she would make, were she to get to the Oval Office.
She describes herself as "a bit unconventional, out of the box, taking on the establishment on both sides of the aisle".
Palin even acknowledges her difficulties as a potential candidate in terms of her electability.
She says they may want "someone a little more conventional".
The electability question is likely to dog any Palin run on the White House. The point was underlined again today with a Bloomberg poll which suggested Palin would be trounced by 16 points were she to face Barack Obama in 2012.
Palin gives few interviews these days, and when she does she increasingly stresses foreign policy points, perhaps in an attempt to overcome the criticisms she faced when she ran as vice-presidential candidate for the Republicans in 2008. She talked to Newsmax about Iran, warning of the consequences if that country obtained a nuclear weapon.
"A nuclear weapon in that country's hands is not just Israel's problem or America's problem – it is the world's problem. It could lead to Armageddon. It could lead to World War III that could decimate so much of this planet."
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