Palin speaks out after leaving Fox
(CNN) - One day after Fox News confirmed that it and Sarah Palin had parted ways, the former Alaska governor spoke out Saturday on why she decided to leave her gig as a paid contributor.
In an interview with the conservative news outlet Breitbart, Palin said she wants to share her values "more broadly" rather than "preach to the choir."
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“The message of liberty and true hope must be understood by a larger audience," she said.
Palin's contract ended at the end of 2012, but a source close to Palin told CNN that the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee turned down a recent offer to renew it.
Palin said the 2014 mid-term elections will be "imperative" and advocated for who she described as anti-establishment conservatives.
"It’s going to be like 2010, but this time around, we need to shake up the GOP machine that tries to orchestrate away too much of the will of constitutional conservatives who don’t give a hoot how they do it in D.C.," she said.
Palin was not specific about her long-term plans, saying "the door is wide open." The three-question interview was published by Stephen K. Bannon, who directed a documentary about Palin called, "The Undefeated."
The Republican National Committee gathered last week for its winter meeting, where several GOP leaders argued the party needed to make serious changes in messaging and outreach to become more inclusive. Last year's presidential election results show that President Barack Obama overwhelmingly won African Americans, Asians and Latinos.
Palin, however, said some in the party are being "skittish" because of the election results.
"They shouldn’t be. Conservatism didn’t lose. A moderate Republican candidate lost after he was perceived to alienate working class Reagan Democrat and independent voters who didn’t turn out for him as much as they did for the McCain/Palin ticket in 2008," she said, adding the election was “defined by a biased media plus millions of voters who sat it out in disgust.”
Asked for her reaction to the idea that she and the tea party no longer hold as much sway, Palin said the fight hasn't even begun.
"I was raised to never retreat and to pick battles wisely, and all in due season," she said. "When it comes to defending our republic, we haven’t begun to fight! But we delight in those who underestimate us."
- CNN’s Ashley Killough, Gregory Wallace and Peter Hamby contributed to this report.
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Sarah, just stay in Alaska. There must be a few people up there that will listen to you. You had your 15 minutes of fame and made a lot of money from a bunch of fools that were willing to pay you. Consider yourself lucky and move on.
Bobby Jindahl and others want the GOP to "stop being the party of stupid."
Well, the Stupid need not feel leaderless when there are people like Palin...more than happy to tell them what they want to hear, no matter how false they know it to be.
Go away, you loser. You are SO 2008.
She is a quitter.
For someone who says never retreat she sure spends a lot of time quitting and retreating
Nobody cares why Palin left the Republican News Network!!!
In other words, there's gold in them thar hills! Opportunist gold-digger.
There's no university that'd have her? No think-tank?
Why don't you run Sarah. Call yourself the Tea Party Candidate instead of the Republican candidate.
We wouldn't know the message of liberty and true hope without you, Sarah. How you managed to squeak that sound byte though the biased media, I'll never know.
(Yes, I'm being sarcastic. If her message is buried in her avalanche books, my mother hasn't found it yet. And where would she be without this biased media she constantly blames? SP is to politics what the Kardashians are to entertainment.)
Sorry, "avalance of books". Had a "North Korean allies" moment there.
"I was raised to never retreat and to pick battles wisely". Contradicting herself...Palin at her best...
LOL – I don't know why I bothered to read this – Like most of America I am happy to see her fade away, but I had to laugh that NOBODY commented yet and I am reading this 7 hours after it was posted – awesome!
so why does anybody care about what this nut job has to say. she quit on the people of Alaska. go talk to he trees
By 2014 no one will ever admit they ever supported her.
Wow...and the crazy train rolls on. Romeny is a "moderate"? He's actually a rich white elitist and was the GOP poster boy until he lost. And "raised to never retreat?" You mean like quitting your job as Governor in the middle of your term? Palin is even too crazy now to even be on Fox.
Brilliant. Just brilliant. Just keep giving her money and air time. She'll give ya' a show. What is it? 110K a pop, plus other perks to her? People pay that kind of money for this rhetoric? A 3-question interview? Brilliant. She has it her way.
judging from the lack of comments no one cares?
Some people just can't tell when it's time to leave the stage. Bye bye, Sarah. The applause has stopped, and your 15 minutes of fame are long over! No one is listening to you anymore, and the Tea Party is dying - thank goodness!
In an interview with the conservative news outlet Breitbart, Palin said she wants to share her values "more broadly" rather than "preach to the choir."
So she's basically admitting that FOX is biased and targets conservatives specifically. Nice.
The CNN news team has a serious problem with reality when it refers to Breitbart as a "news outlet." Breitbart is a propaganda outlet to make Joseph Goebbels seem like an amateur.
She has been more damaging to the Republican party than any one single thing.
She was raised to never retreat? That explains why she resigned as governor then I guess. Her job was done, regardless of her oath of office.
You go girl !
Wow, the more she talks the less she says. Always good for,comic relief . You gotta love Sarah Palin.
It's about time! We haven't had a Palin bashing session for weeks!