Sarah Palin Is SO Running In 2012, Y'all

She totally is, you guys! First step? Talking to the Anchorage Daily News in an interview aimed at distancing herself not only from the current Brush administration, but from the Republican party's current image in general and from John McCain:

“I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10 trillion debt in a Republican administration? How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration?”

So John McCain wasn't ever really much of a "maverick" then? You only mentioned that, what, like every chance you got? Ay, anyway. She's also upset at shoddy reporting by gotcha journalists:

“Some of the goofy things, like who was Trig's mom. Well, I'm Trig's mom, and do you want to see my medical records to prove that? And banning books. That was a ridiculous thing also that could have so easily been corrected just by a reporter taking an extra step and not basing a report on gossip or speculation,” Palin said.

“Just looking into the record. It was reported that I tried to ban Harry Potter when it hadn't even been written when I was the mayor. So, gosh, we have so many examples, I mean every day, especially the first few weeks, every day something that was thrown out there.”

That's true. But speculation over maternity does provide a nice distraction to things like making rape victims pay for their own kits or believing that Jesus waltzed with terradactyls. Anyway. She's so running! Palin: GOP ticket was too ‘status quo’ [Yahoo]