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Is there now any doubt that Sarah Palin will roll the dice and run for President in 2012?

Sarah Palin says she is seriously considering a run for the White House, and she believes she could beat President Obama in 2012, the former Alaska governor told ABC News’ Barbara Walters.

“I’m looking at the lay of the land now, and … trying to figure that out, if it’s a good thing for the country, for the discourse, for my family, if it’s a good thing,” Palin said in an interview scheduled to air in full Dec. 9 on ABC as part of Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People” of 2010.

Asked Walters: “If you ran for president, could you beat Barack Obama?”

“I believe so,” Palin said.

Also, today there is this somewhat favorable profile of Team Sarah in the New York Times, no less

As I said before, Sarah will keep her powder dry, prepare to run and run if President Obama’s poll numbers continue in the tank in key battleground Midwest states.

I doubt she will have little trouble defeating Mitt Romney in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida in any contested GOP primary elections. Mitt Romney would likely win New Hampshire but with Rudy Giuliani at her side should be able to sweep the Northeast GOP primaries and California – if the GOP contest continues that late.

What does Sarah Palin have to lose, really?

Barack Obama or any incumbent President will be difficult at best to beat. Expectations to beat Obama will be low.

If Palin runs and loses the GOP nomination, she can write more books and make a comeback ala Nixon and Reagan in later years. If she loses to Obama, she will be the front runner for the 2016 Presidential race where there will be no incumbent.

I say Sarah Palin runs.

Sounds like Mitt Romney’s political operatives to me.

Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.

Interviews with advisers to the main 2012 presidential contenders and with other veteran Republican operatives make clear they see themselves on a common, if uncoordinated, mission of halting the momentum and credibility Palin gained with conservative activists by plunging so aggressively into this year’s midterm campaigns.

Former New York Mayor and GOP Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has the best advice for the GOP.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, meanwhile, made the point that Palin’s anti-establishment credibility is only helped when Republican operatives air their concerns anonymously to the consummate insider publication.

“I worked for Ronald Reagan, you know the 11th Commandment was don’t criticize another Republican,” he said during an appearance on “Fox and Friends” on Monday. “Let’s not start this presidential race before this election is over and let’s not go through the negativity we went through in the last one where Republicans attacked the heck out of each other. We have got a bigger mission here. Sarah Palin has every right to make her case to the Republican Party. How about we let the Republicans decide — not the so-called leaders — whether she is qualified or not?”

“I think they are missing the whole point of what is going on in our electorate right now because that is the worst possible way to take that kind of a lesson out of this election,” Giuliani added. “I think this time we have to have a Republican National Committee that disciplines Republicans who attack other Republicans. I see it starting already and it really disturbs me.”

And, I agree. Let the Republican primary elections take care of themselves.

Republican political operatives should obey Reagan’s 11th commandment and come out of the shadows, if they have the intestinal fortitude.

Via Allah Pundit but the whole video is too good to not reproduce here.

Rudy really makes Huffington look like an idiot and he didn’t even have to mention her former and gay husband’s disastrous race for California U.S. Senate or her inherited wealth from the divorce.

Geeez and this moron is throwing stones in whose glass house?