One Rough Camping Trip Later, Kate Thinks She Has Political Ambitions

By Rob Shuter Posted Dec 13th 2010 05:00PM

Following Kate Gosselin's televised (and rough) camping trip with Sarah Palin, the mom of eight is now telling friends she too has political ambitions and would some day like to run for office.

"Honestly, Kate is unbelievable," an insider tells me. "Her ego is out of control at this point. Ever since 'Dancing With the Stars,' and the fact that she appeared on more consecutive covers of US Weekly than any celebrity ever, she thinks that she has what it takes to run for office."

The unlikely duo of Kate and Sarah was the brainchild of TLC, the network home for both of their reality shows. Pairing them on the latest episode of 'Sarah Palin's Alaska,' which aired last night, helped bump ratings up 11 per cent. As Us put it, the two had "zero chemistry" and Kate has called the trip "the worst" of her life.

"After meeting and spending time with Sarah, Kate realized that if she could run for office then so could Kate," a friend of Gosslin's tells me. "Sarah does have a little bit more experience than Kate does in office but what they have in common is huge. They are both famous reality stars that you either love or hate. They both are beautiful and have a way of getting everyone's attention."

Oh yeah, and both have appeared on the biggest television show in America, 'Dancing With the Stars,' though Sarah was just a spectator. (A very, very, very influential spectator, of course.)

What do you think, should Kate run for office some day? Would you vote for her? You got to admit those would be fun ribbon-cutting ceremonies with all her kids running around!

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TV personalities Mark Steines and Kate Gosselin at the ET Platform during the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on August 29, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - "Entertainment Tonight" Nokia Theatre LA Live Los Angeles, CA United States August 29, 2010 Photo by Mathew Imaging/WireImage.com To license this image (61434674), contact WireImage.com

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Kate Gosselin Snapshots

In this July 2010 photo released by TLC, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, left, shakes hands with Gosselin twins, Cara, right, and Mady, as their mother Kate Gosselin looks on as the Palins and the Gosselins go on a camping trip in Coffee Creek, Alaska, during a taping of "Sarah Palin's Alaska." The Gosselin-Palin camping trip episode will air on Sunday, Dec. 12, at 9 p.m. EST on TLC. (AP Photo/TLC, Gilles Mingasson)

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TV personality Kate Gosselin arrives at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on August 29, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals Nokia Theatre L.A. Live Los Angeles, CA United States August 29, 2010 Photo by Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com To license this image (17382505), contact WireImage.com

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TV personalities Lara Spencer and Kate Gosselin at the Insider Platform during the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on August 29, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - "The Insider" Platform Nokia Theatre LA Live Los Angeles, CA United States August 29, 2010 Photo by Mathew Imaging/WireImage.com To license this image (61434657), contact WireImage.com

Kate Gosselin Snapshots

TV personality Kate Gosselin arrives at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on August 29, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals Nokia Theatre L.A. Live Los Angeles, CA United States August 29, 2010 Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com To license this image (17382705), contact WireImage.com

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(L-R) Actors Amber Riley, Jane Lynch, Chris Colfer, Joel McHale, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Jorge Garcia, Nina Dobrev, Kate Gosselin and Jon Hamm perform onstage at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on August 29, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards - Show JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE Los Angeles, CA United States August 29, 2010 Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com To license this image (61437890), contact FilmMagic.com

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TV personality Kate Gosselin arrives at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE on August 29, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE Los Angeles, CA United States August 29, 2010 Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic.com To license this image (17384242), contact FilmMagic.com

Kate Gosselin Snapshots

TV personality Kate Gosselin arrives at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on August 29, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE Los Angeles, CA United States August 29, 2010 Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com To license this image (61441413), contact FilmMagic.com

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Comments

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Monday 13 December

By Melinda

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you have got to be freaking kidding me!!! she can't manage her family how in the world would she run any kind of political office.

By Jackie

Keep Kate out of the limelight, she is a waste. She should go home and be the mother she lied to all of us that she was.

By kyrailfan666

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Why not, we can always use more f'd up politicos? There about equily unquilifyed and they both use there children only as props in there messed up lives.

By fiona

Looks like the Anti-Christ strikes again. First Cheney, then Palin, now this bimbette!

By thesixovus

Nope Kate wont happen we are voting all morons out of office not in

By Anne

AGREED!!!!!

By KR

Or we can just wait til they QUIT !!!

By Cindy Stauffer

Bwahahahahahahaha........thanks for the laugh Kate

By mw

I just threw up in my mouth. Maybe I'm having a bad dream, a nightmare to be exact.

By gimarie67

Kate is out for herself not her kids that she got stuck with. She is not a PRIMA DONNA as she would like to think. When you go camping the weather doesn't always cooperate.

Friday 24 December

By Moira Dean

I watched part of the camping trip with the Palins - when Kate whined she wanted to go home, and the kids wanted to say, she said "so you don't want to be a goslin - you'd rather be a Palin" Talk about cruel emotional blackmail. Those kids wanted to stay and that selfish whiner used a guilt trip to get them to go home.

By Patty

Didn't even read the article, but this much I know. If the media "reporters" like Rob Shuter would stop writing about Kate, she might just go away...

Tuesday 14 December

By wade moore

if only........

That is just to funny. Kate in politics? She is a moron!

By Amy

This whole Kate thing is like a bad nightmare that you cant wake up from.. Really, who is she?? No one!!

By Jerry

Hells bells, if good ol' girl Sarah Palin can run for office, "by golly" why can't any idiot run! after all didn't all you republicans elect G.W.Bush TWICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By gloria

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well Jerry there have been tons of idiots who have been alected to office over the years but Kate would top the charts. Or a WWE as govenor of MINN. Maybe it is time to move to another country if we even consider these people. And I include Palin in this catagory. She as Preisident scares me to death.

By PJ

As opposed to all you morons that voted for obama?

By cc

and then elected obummer!!!

By D Wayne

Didn't Palin call Obama a "celebrity"? This media who-ah has here own show! When asked what channel her show was on, she replied "Oh I don't know Katie, all of them."

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