Palin: I'll run 'if there's nobody else to do it'

Sounds like Sarah Palin is getting closer to a presidential run.

"If there's nobody else to do it, then of course I would believe that we should do this," Palin tells Entertainment Tonight.

Palin also told Mary Hart that a presidential run is "going to entail a discussion with my family [and] a real close look at the lay of the land, to consider whether there are those with that common sense, conservative, pro-Constitution passion, whether there are already candidates out there who can do the job ... or whether there's nobody willing to do it, to make the tough choices and not care what the critics are going to say about you, just going forward according to what I think the priorities should be."

Video of the interview is here.

Of course, the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is not Palin's for the taking -- as evidenced by comments from former George W. Bush political adviser Karl Rove.

"There are high standards that the American people have for it [the presidency] and they require a certain level of gravitas, and they want to look at the candidate and say 'that candidate is doing things that gives me confidence that they are up to the most demanding job in the world,'" Rove told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Rove also took a shot at Palin's new reality television show about Alaska.

"With all due candor, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office,'"Rove said.

Palin, who ran for vice president on John McCain's ticket in 2008, also got lukewarm reviews from McCain's wife Cindy.

Appearing on the new CBS show The Talk, Mrs. McCain said Palin has the "sense" and the "wherewithal" to run the country, but: "I just hope she has the ability to understand that we have to include everybody in this party and this country. And again, I am not criticizing Sarah. But I understand that we are going to lose our young people to politics unless we include everybody in the process."

(Posted by David Jackson)