In interviews with
ABC news and the
New York Times former Alaska governor Sarah Palin said she is planning to run for president of the United States in 2012. The interviews with two of the main "lamestream media" outlets in the country, as she refers to them, will come out this week and are certain in Palin style to make a splash. They will overshadow the grassroots work former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, one of Palin's likely rivals for the Republican nomination, will be doing in Iowa, the traditional first battleground in the presidential election cycle.