Sarah Palin said on Tuesday that she is “hopefully running for office in the future.”
{mosads}”Hey, the more [critics are] pouring on, the more I’m going to bug the crap out of them by being out there with a voice, with the message, hopefully running for office in the future too,” she said on Fox Business.
There were hints that Palin could run for president in 2012, but she ultimately decided not to. The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and former governor of Alaska currently hosts an outdoors show on the Sportsman Channel, and weighs in on issues on Fox News.
She also criticized the GOP leadership in the interview Tuesday.
“The leadership right now, those who at least have the titles of leaders in the GOP, they need more guts. They need to be empowered, and they need to have the confidence that the American people understand that the planks in the Republican platform happen to be strong planks, upon which our country can grow and prosper and be secure, instead of being so hesitant, kind of going along to get along,” she said.
She pointed instead to conservatives, such as Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah).
“We do have a lot of good leaders out there like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, and those who they don’t have the title of leader but, at least in my opinion, and a lot of people I know, our opinion, is they are the ones who do exercise the leadership that we need, the boldness, the courage,” she said.
Palin has recently been in the news after reports that her family got into a fight last month at a party in Alaska.
Asked about CNN anchor Carol Costello, who apologized for joking about the fight, Palin noted that “other people have it a lot tougher than we do.”
She added that liberals “do want to destroy personally those they disagree with.”
“They are very, very intolerant of those who maybe hold opposing view to their liberal failed agenda view,” she said. “So, they want to crush us.”
Palin also weighed in on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said last week that corporations do not create jobs. Clinton later said she was talking about tax breaks to corporations.
Palin linked Clinton’s comments to President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” comment from the 2012 campaign.
“Well, that echoes President Obama’s comment that those business owners who have worked so hard all their lives to create what they do create, in order to hire people and get economy rolling, that, oh you didn’t build that, business owner,” Palin said.
“Well, if the top two Democrats believe that, then hey, other Democrats around the country, you’re looking really bad if your leaders believe that,” she added.