Sarah Palin seems very interested in next year’s senate race up in Alaska, if comments on Thursday were any indication. The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate used her Facebook page to attack the state’s current senator, Mark Begich, a Democrat.

Criticizing his voting record, Palin accused Begich of being a steadfast liberal supporter of President Barack Obama and establishment Democrats. She said that voters in Alaska want change in the 2014 election that would, in her view, be more in line with their interests. Until that happens, though, she said “we’ll see much more playing of the ol’ Washington political game using those inside D.C. reporters each time you have to distract from yet another bad vote for Alaska in the U.S. Senate.”

Begich countered Palin’s attacks by telling Politico that the former governor and current pundit has distanced herself from the state’s interests in the years since she resigned halfway through her first, and only, term. He said that she “quit on Alaska” and questioned her status as a resident of the state given her frequent travel and media appearances. But Politico reported that she was still registered to vote in Wasilla, where she was once mayor.

In the interview, he also expressed his lack of concern about her potential candidacy, saying that “she may not survive” a Republican primary in the state. And he swatted away her criticisms of his record as “nothing new” while citing her lack of accomplishments as governor.

Palin did express her apparent joy at his attacks on her by comparing the situation to an old Margaret Thatcher quote. In it, the late British prime minister said, “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

Of course, Palin’s attacks on the Democrat could probably be considered “particularly wounding” as well. No word from her on what that means for his prospects.

She hasn’t yet made a decision on whether she will challenge Begich in his re-election bid next year, but did express some interest while appearing on Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel show Tuesday, telling the conservative host that she had “considered” it.

But she’s holding back to see if there “will be some new blood, new energy” showing up on the Republican side.