'Yes We Can' has become 'No You Can't,' says Sarah Palin at national conservative gathering, SLAMMING Obama with Dr. Seuss send-up



The former VP candidate told Fox News host Greta van Susteren that she will 'never say never' to running for president



Palin is constantly stoking the fires to maintain her public profile as a national media figure

More rock star than policy wonk, Palin was the final speaker at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference

'I do not like this, Uncle Sam. I do not like his health care scam,' she read, Dr. Seuss-style



She famously resigned the governorship of Alaska in 2010, citing the cost and distraction of fighting what she called 'frivolous' ethics charges



Sarah Palin, the tea-party-darling former Alaska governor who ran for vice president in 2008, is leaving the door open for a presidential run in 2016, but mostly hawking a soon-to-premiere TV show.

As the final speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, Palin praised conservative leaders and trashed President Barack Obama, including a political smack-fest hidden in a Dr. Seuss-style children's rhyme.

'I do not like this, Uncle Sam. I do not like his health care scam,' she recited in a sing-song voice.

'I do not like these dirty crooks, or how they lie and cook the books. I do not like when Congress steals. I do not like their crony deals. I do not like this spying, man. I do not like "Oh, yes we can."'

The effort won her cheers of 'Run, Sarah, Run!' from some of the more than 1,000 activists who stayed at the CPAC event until the bitter end.

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Palin pontificating: Conservative pundit, television personality and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks during the 41st annual Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord International Hotel and Conference Center on March 8

Anti affordable healthcare: Palin uses children's rhymes to get her points across to her audience

Palin said she would 'never say never' to running for president in 2016

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Obama 'promised jobs for the jobless, but fewer people work today than when the peanut farmer was president,' she said, referring to President Jimmy Carter's 1970s economic malaise.

'He promised to heal the planet, stop the rise of the oceans,' Palin mocked. 'But the planet is not listening to "Dr. Obama."'

'The only thing rising in his la-la land is the Russian empire.'

'I'm probably being too hard on the president,' she sniped. 'After all, who could have seen this coming?'

Palin made headlines this week after Russian Vladimir Putin sent troops across the Ukrainian border into the Crimea region – a development she predicted in 2008 as a consequence of an Obama presidency, to a chorus of head-shaking from foreign-policy journalists.

Ted Cruz read from the children's classic 'Green Eggs And Ham' during his Senate filibuster in 2013 -- an event that Palin reprised with anti-Obama rhymes in place of Dr. Seuss' verses.

Palin is expected to deliver a crowd-pleasing red-meat speech to close the Conservative Political Action Conference

'I'm usually not one to Told-Ya-So,' she gloated on Facebook, 'but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as “an extremely far-fetched scenario” by the “high-brow” Foreign Policy magazine.

CPAC is an annual event that features speeches and glad-handing from potential Republican presidential candidates like Rand Paul, the Kentucky senator who won the event's informal straw with a 31 per cent showing in a large field, easily besting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who placed second with 11 per cent.



On Friday night, Palin appeared on the Fox News Channel, fielding questions about whether she has presidential ambitions of her own following her loss two presidential elections ago as a vice presidential nominee.



'It depends on what it is that Americans really, really want in a candidate,' the politician-turned-media-gadfly told host Greta van Susteren.

'If they want a fighter, if they want someone who can so respect our exceptionalism, everything that makes America great, the promise of America. And if we don't find that, then I would run.'

'It doesn't have to be me,' Palin said.



'I do think that there are so many Americans who feel like I feel, and they're capable. They're willing and able to serve.'

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Palin's star rose quickly in 2008 when GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain chose her as his running mate

Palin and McCain failed the electoral-college test by a wide margin but claimed popular vote victories (shown in red) in a vast majority of U.S. counties

Asked who her favorite presidential hopefuls are so far, she singled out Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul while adding that 'some would say we need to stay clear of those who have followed a conventional political path. Maybe they are part of the problem.'

But when van Susteren cornered Palin on her own White House ambitions, she said 'I'll never say never.'



'At this point in time,' she cautioned, 'I don't have a team of people, you know, getting out there doing these poll-tested – whatever they do – to let you know if you should run or not. I don't have any of that kind of organization going.'

NBC News correspondent Chuck Todd sniped at the idea of a Palin presidential run last month, saying on the air that if she ran it would be for 'a financial reason, to get back into the spotlight. Get the speaking fees back up.'

The Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, D.C. was awash with Palin paraphernalia

But right-wing activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference, held this week near the nation's capital, are eager to toss her back onto the political roulette wheel.

'Are you kidding?' attendee Kate Robinson told MailOnline. 'She may not ever get elected to anything else again, but at least she pushes the rest of the candidates to be more conservative – and not to shy away from the things that make us conservatives.'

Palin rose to national prominence when GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona tapped her as his running mate in 2008. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden defeated the two handily, winning in a 365–173 electoral vote drubbing.

Four years later, she resigned her job as Alaska governor, citing the expense and distraction of fighting 'frivolous' ethics charges related to the firing of the state's public safety commissioner. Still, her statewide approval ratings never dipped below 53 per cent.

Palin's name is everywhere a t the CPAC event, from giving the annual event's final speech to promoting the April premiere of her new show 'Amazing America' on the Sportsman Channel.

In another Fox News appearance in March, she slammed President Obama for what she said was a tepid response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Crimea region.