Sarah Palin.
Posted by: sleepyoldbear on: 8 November 2008
John Ray has this:
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Sarah answers back
After all the lies that the press invented about her during the campaign, all that the latest flood of unsourced allegations show is that the press realize she might unseat Obama in 2012
Sarah Palin refused to rule out a run for the White House in four years’ time as she hit back at extraordinary allegations from aides to John McCain about her “hillbilly” shopping sprees and breathtaking ignorance. As the controversy over her vice-presidential candidacy intensified following the Republican defeat on Tuesday night, Mrs Palin responded to a barrage of anonymous allegations from the McCain camp, including binge-buying of luxury clothes and a claim that she did not know that Africa was a continent….
Landing in Anchorage, Alaska, after one of her aides described the allegations as “unfair and sickening”, Mrs Palin was greeted by crowds chanting “2012!”, to which she replied: “We’ll see what happens then.” Addressing the Africa allegation, she said: “If they’re an unnamed source, that says it all. I won’t comment on anyone’s gossip based on anonymous sources. “That’s kind of small, of a bitter type of person who anonymously would charge that I didn’t know an answer to a question. So until I know who’s talking about it, I won’t have a comment on a false allegation.”
She has also denied going on shopping sprees. Nicolle Wallace publicly defended Mrs Palin yesterday, taking to a morning television show to call her “the most undiva politician I have ever seen”. Mr McCain’s aides say they were also dismayed that, without informing the campaign hierarchy, Mrs Palin scheduled a call from President Sarkozy of France just before the election. In fact, the call was from Marc-Antoine Audette and his fellow comedian, Sebastien Trudel, who are notorious for prank calls to heads of state. Mrs Palin appeared to believe that she was talking to Mr Sarkozy and when told that she would make a good president herself some day, she replied: “Maybe in eight years.”
On Wednesday, as the finger-pointing began, Mrs Palin said: “I have absolutely no intention of engaging in any of the negativity because this has been all positive for me.” She said it was time to savour Barack Obama’s victory and “not let the pettiness, or maybe internal workings of a campaign, erode any of the recognition of this historic moment”.
Meanwhile, interview requests from such talk-show luminaries as Larry King and Oprah Winfrey poured in to Mrs Palin’s office in Alaska. “The intensity of all the interest is amazing. Everyone wants to talk to her,” said Bill McAllister, her spokesman.
He has some excellent links.
8 Responses to "Sarah Palin."
9 November 2008 at 21:50
On the country vs. continent of Africa controversy, she didn’t exactly deny it, only said it was taken out of context.
She may have her fans, and she may be of some use to her party, but I think she’s unelectable to the presidency. Even if all this stuff is BS, she doesn’t have broad enough appeal.
11 November 2008 at 15:25
Point is, the “establishment” Republicans are going to make quite certain that she’s pushed outside the gates, so to speak, in an attempt to prevent her from even seeking the nomination in ‘12. At this point, it really isn’t relevant whether she’s “qualified”; the U.S. elected Obama and his experience is … thin is a word that comes to mind.
11 November 2008 at 23:08
As compared to someone who 2 years ago was a small-town mayor?
12 November 2008 at 17:21
A small-town mayor with about 2 years experience as a state governor, compared with a never-practiced-law lawyer, adjunct constitutional law professor, state senator and national senator who was absent more than present. Not much to choose from, really, eh?
That’s my point: President Obama was elected despite nearly non-existent “qualifications” why not Governor Palin? Just on the basis of experience, there isn’t much difference in their government experience, although she’s had some – albeit short – executive branch experience at local and state level, contrasted with his largely-absent term in the U.S. Senate and state senate.
12 November 2008 at 17:22
Oh, “adjunct professor” = “substitute teacher”, called on to fill in, as, if and when.
12 November 2008 at 22:09
Lloyd: I see your argument. Now if you can find me video of an interview or any unscripted moment (reading a speech someone else wrote doesn’t count) where she appears to be intelligent, I will readjust my opinion of her. Anything I’ve seen made me cringe at the thought of her with the nuclear codes, but I’m always open to considering new evidence.
But all other arguments aside, my key point is she doesn’t appeal to a broad enough segment of voters. Apparently some conservatives are enamoured of her, but that’s not enough (see Goldwater, Barry). One needs to get some independent voters and moderate or soft supporters of the other side in order to clinch. When moderate Republicans like Colin Powell endorse Obama, largely because of Palin, it shows how narrow her support is.
13 November 2008 at 15:23
Sounding intelligent … not required and I offer Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter as evidence. *laugh* Though both of those men were, in fact, intelligent, they often sounded otherwise in their public statements and speeches.
Ah! Electability is important and she likely fails that test; I concede that point. Keep in mind, however, that is a changing feature of a candidate and she may – “may” – become more so depending upon what she chooses to do in the next four years.
Personally, I suspect General Powell endorsed Senator Obama to avoid becoming a pariah in the upper-class black community. I served with him in the Army thirty years ago and had a better opinion of his judgement; that is the primary basis for my notion that he endorsed to maintain his credentials among his ethnic peers rather than because of his disapproval of Governor Palin.
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9 November 2008 at 15:38
My impression is that the “country-club” Republicans who are the majority of the incumbents and party apparatniks are starting the process of getting her out of the mainstream of the party. They have mid-term elections down the road in two years and have no interest in seeing a “Senator Palin” in Washington, with her eyes on the nomination in ‘12.