Is former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin considering leaving the GOP? It sure sounds like it.
Palin played with the idea of going rogue during a Fox News interview on Saturday. The subject came up after a Twitter used asked, “Would you and Mark Levin be willing to build a ‘Freedom Party’ if GOP continues to ignore conservatives?”
“I love the name of that party — the ‘Freedom Party,'” Palin said. “And if the GOP continues to back away from the planks in our platform, from the principles that built this party of Lincoln and Reagan, then yeah, more and more of us are going to start saying, ‘You know, what’s wrong with being independent?’ Kind of with that libertarian streak that much of us have.”
Palin went on to say that Americans shouldn’t be limited to one party or the other, and that the GOP is leaving conservatives like herself, and not the other way around.
“GOP, if you abandon us, we have nowhere else to go except to become more independent and not enlisted in one or the other of the private majority parties that rule in our nation, either a Democrat or a Republican,” she added.
Palin may be considering leaving the Republican Party, but the GOP shouldn’t expect her to disappear anytime soon. Roughly six months after leaving Fox News, the former Governor of Alaska and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee recently renewed her contract with the network and will return as a regular contributor.
(h/t The Daily Mail)
