Palin considers a run for President
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeSarah Palin, one of the best known and most controversial figures in American politics, told BBC Newsnight she was weighing up whether the US was ready for an "unconventional" presidential candidate like her.They all know how to use them. The guy was probably lucky the FBI caught him before the Palin family went into self defense mode.
"You run the race to win the race. That's for sure."
Speaking in Alaska, the state's former governor said if she did decide to run she would be fully committed.
But the cost together with whether voters were ready to make a win a reality, were issues she still needed to think about.
"Obama has already said he's going to spend a billion dollars (£615.4m) on this race, so money is certainly going to be a consideration," Sarah Palin told me.
"And just the idea of whether the American electorate is ready for someone a bit unconventional, who is willing to tell it as she sees it, not be beholden to special interest or such obsessive partisanship as to let a political machine get in the way of doing what's right for the voters."
Palin was catapulted from political obscurity to global celebrity almost overnight.
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When I asked her about the endless claims that she was not intellectually up to the job, Ms Palin seemed tense.
"Rumours like I didn't know Africa was a continent, that's still out there, that's a lie," she told me.
"Things like I censored books when I was a mayor up here in Alaska, that's a lie. It's not all you guys, but some of you are saying that Trig [her fifth child] is not mine - that's a sign of a screwed-up media.
"Would you be offended if someone said your child wasn't your child? It's offensive."
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Palin's father Chuck said a man recently had sent the family photocopies of a receipt for a gun he had bought, together with a photocopy of a one-way ticket to Alaska.
The family had laughed it off, but the man subsequently turned up in the state and was arrested by the FBI, Chuck said.
"We sleep with the guns," Palin's father admitted.
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I like Sarah Palin. She has policy positions that I mostly agree with. She would make a good President if give a fair chance. It is clear the Democrats will not treat her fairly. Whether the rest of the voters will is something she will have to fun to find out.
Of all the cnadidates she is the strongest on energy policy. I would like to see her in the debate to push that point of view which I think the majority of Americans agree with. On other issues she is in the mainstream of GOP thought, although you might never know it from listening to the "lames stream media."
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