Sarah Palin: I'm 'hopefully running for office in the future'

Sarah Palin: I'm 'hopefully running for office in the future'
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Sarah Palin, the former half-term Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, says she may run for office again, if only to "bug the crap" out of liberals.

"Those haters out there don't understand that it invigorates me," she said Tuesday on Fox Business.

"The more they're pouring on the more I'm gonna bug the crap out of them by being out there with a voice, with a message, hopefully running for office in the future, too," she added.

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In the run-up to the 2012 primaries, Palin strongly suggested she would get in the race, though she never did. If she does ever run for president, she'd have little chance of winning, as polls show that about six in ten Americans have an unfavorable opinion of her.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.