Sarah Palin is "of course" interested in running for next year's presidential election.
Just one day before heading to Iowa for the first major conservative showcase of the 2016 election cycle, the former governor of Alaska revealed that not only is she thinking about a White House bid, but that she also hopes to see a woman in the Oval office, Politico reported.
"Yeah, I mean, of course, when you have a servant's heart, when you know that there is opportunity to do all you can to put yourself forward in the name of offering service, anybody would be interested," Palin told ABC News' Neal Karlinsky while serving wild boar chili to the homeless in Las Vegas on Thursday.
The possible issue of gender might eventually drive her involvement, she suggested.
"We definitely had enough of seeing that -- America has had enough of seeing that -- sign on the Oval Office door saying, 'No Girls Allowed.' I know that."
"It doesn't have to be myself, but yes ... happy to drive that competition, because competition will make everyone better and produce more and be more candid regarding their solutions they will offer this country. I am very interested in that competitive process and, again, not necessarily me."
On Saturday, Palin will be joined by several potential Republican presidential contenders, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, and former neurosurgeon and conservative star Ben Carson, for the Iowa Freedom Summit in the Hawkeye State, according to ABC News.
"Big competition, and that competition in the GOP ... will surface that candidate who can take on Hillary, be ready for Hillary and show the nation what it is going to take to get the country back on the right track - because we can't afford status quo, because status quo lately has been Latin for, 'We are getting screwed,' and status quo has got to go," she said.
Meanwhile speaking about the "right candidate," she described the person as someone who will "turn things around, someone who will, in some respects, I don't know, maybe be considered a bit avant garde, to the establishment anyway, because this next person has got to realize this is war, this is war for our hunters' future."
"I want to help find that candidate that realizes that [their standing in the next election is] not what matters, that's not what is at stake," Palin said. "What's at stake is our children and our grandchildren's future."
