AMERİKA BÜLTENİ (6 Ekim 2011)
Cumhuriyetçi Partinin 2008 Başkan Yardımcısı adayı olduktan sonra ABD ve dünya kamuoyunun yakından tanıdığı ve izlediği bir isim haline gelen Sarah Palin, 2012 adaylığı konusunda nihai kararını verdi. Alaska eski Valisi Palin, 2012 yarışında aday olmayacağını açıkladı. ‘’Uzun süre düşündüktan ve dua ettikten sonra, Cumhuriyetçi Parti’nin 2012 adaylık yarışına katılmamaya karar verdim’’ diye kaydeden Palin, ‘’Her zaman ailem önce gelir. Todd ve ben karar vermeden önce ailemizi gözönüne aldık. Askerlikte kendimizi, Tanrı, aile ve ülkemize adıyoruz. Benim kararım de bu sıralamaya göre alındı’’ dedi.
Bağımsız aday olmayacak
Açıklama kamuoyuna yansıdığı sıra “Mark Levin Show” radyo programına katılan Palin, bağımsız aday olarak katılıp katılmayacağı sorulduğunda şu cevabı verdi: ‘’Üçüncü parti sadece Obama’nın yeniden sçeilmesini garanti eder. Cumhuriyetçi Parti’nin taşıyamayacağı bir şey bu. Yani, üçüncü parti adaylığına hayır diyorum’’.
İşte Palin’in açıklamasının tam metni:
October 5, 2011
Wasilla, Alaska
After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.
My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation’s governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the “fundamental transformation” of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.
From the bottom of my heart I thank those who have supported me and defended my record throughout the years, and encouraged me to run for President. Know that by working together we can bring this country back – and as I’ve always said, one doesn’t need a title to help do it.
I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for President where our candidates must embrace immediate action toward energy independence through domestic resource developments of conventional energy sources, along with renewables. We must reduce tax burdens and onerous regulations that kill American industry, and our candidates must always push to minimize government to strengthen the economy and allow the private sector to create jobs.
Those will be our priorities so Americans can be confident that a smaller, smarter government that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people can better serve this most exceptional nation.
In the coming weeks I will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing the President, re-taking the Senate, and maintaining the House.
Thank you again for all your support. Let’s unite to restore this country!
God bless America.
– Sarah Palin