Palin ready to run 2012 campaign for White House

TEA PARTY favourite Sarah Palin gave the strongest indication yet she is preparing a 2012 White House bid, saying she would run for president “if there is nobody else to do it”.

The former Republican vice-presidential candidate, who was lampooned in the media for her political naivety in the hard-fought final weeks of the 2008 campaign, is now among the most popular conservative politicians in America.

Palin, who left office midway through her first term in office as governor of Alaska, told Entertainment Tonight it would take someone willing “to make the tough choices and not care what the critics are going to say about you”.