Sarah Palin: McCain's biggest mistake was shielding me from the press
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Dec 23, 2008 11:00am
Yes, she actually said that. And yes, this is what happened when she was actually allowed to speak to the press. And this. And this. And this. And... oh, you get the point.
GIZZI: What was the biggest mistake made in the ’08 campaign?
PALIN: The biggest mistake made was that I could have called more shots on this: the opportunities that were not seized to speak to more Americans via media. I was not allowed to do very many interviews, and the interviews that I did were not necessarily those I would have chosen. But I was so thankful to have the opportunity to run with John McCain that I was not going to argue with the strategy decisions that some of his people were making regarding the media contacts.But if I would have been in charge, I would have wanted to speak to more reporters because that’s how you get your message out to the electorate.
Seriously...what is wrong with these people? Palin thinks McCain lost because he didn't let her embarrass herself enough in the press? I bet the dead-ender wingnuts think she just didn't wink enough.
I'm with John Cole here:
Seriously, the only people more excited about this than the Palin dead-enders are… every single Democrat in the country. Hold her close. Embrace the Palin. Show the country this is your vision for the future GOP.
Pretty please?
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Let's encourage her to run again in 2012! She's political (and comedy) gold! GOLD!
If the economy's still--or even deeper--in the toilet, and folks are suffering, that's when the Rightard/Fundie message will have the most traction.
and I fully expect the economy to be in every bit as much trouble in 2011 as it is today.
Picking Palin DID help McCain. He got a significant boost after she spoke at the GOP convention.
The reason Obama won was not that he had better policies (although he did) or that McCain had nothing new to offer (although he didn't) or that Palin was a public embarrasment (although she was), but solely because the first, publicly noticeable harbinger of economic collapse happened while Bush was still in the White House.
If the economy is still bad in 2011, then President Obama will definitely be in trouble. The possibility of President Palin should not be discounted.
"We could have won if the economy hadn't tanked." Obama obliterated the old man at every debate, handled every bullshit lie and manufactured outrage Grandpa threw at him, generally winning over time many fair minded Americans. Obama was moving away from the GOP's shitty ticket even as Bush's economy nose dived. Palin v Obama in 2012? Lol.
Looking at pollster.com or fivethirtyeight, McCain and Obama were neck and neck at the beginning of 08 and then see-sawed back and forth to about late May or early June, when Obama had the advantage. That advantage continued for about two months until mid-August, when McCain begain to steadily regain ground until his support passed Obama's again in early or mid September.
It was only during the last two months of the campaign that Obama pulled ahead consistently.
While I'd very much like to dismiss the economic factor as a GOP myth/excuse, I think that it has much more than just a kernel of truth in it.
Though, I agree that the economy tanking was probably the biggest factor, don't discount how much of a laughing stock Palin had become by election night. I'm sure many fair minded Americans worried if Gramps kicks off, "You Betcha" is sitting in the Oval Office.
I hope she picks an equally brain dead VP for her campaign.
Sarah Palin/Paris Hilton 2012
and racist red necks can believe in.
Although they run neck and neck on the skank-meter, I truly feel that Paris is brighter.
in front of her...Take some lessons from Paris Hilton, etc during your four-year hiatus, bitch.
she's got great ideas!
Oh yeah, Sarah is so right. She wasn't allowed to embarrass herself in public nearly enough. Of course she was much wiser than those professional people who were managing her campaign. Shoot, just imagine if she had been allowed to go on....oh let's say Meet the Press. Had she done that, I'm sure McCain would have won by a landslide.
Sorry but her explanation is just damned funny.
Another ignorant Republican asshole incapable of accepting any responsibility for being a natural born fuck up.
Please run in 2012 lady, please.
Right. As opposed to letting her speak out on OTHER vital matters in the U.S. ? I would have loved to have heard her views on the economy, education, Social Security, childcare, health care, disaster relief, veteran's care...oh man, the mind boggles on all our missed opportunities !
I'm sure the corpse of the executed criminal Giovanni Aldini experimented on made more realistic facial expressions.
Just a few minutes ago I saw an interview with Joe the Plumber. He was pushing his new book. He called himself the most famous unemployed person in the country.
He was also pissing and moaning about McCain voting for the bailout.
McCain's comrades sure turn ugly fast when they are pushed off his coattails.
I doubt he's ever read one...
Joe "co-authored" the book but the book is all about Joe's life and his feelings about the nation in general. As if anyone gave a flying shit.
talking point list and Yo just answered "Yup" to everything and someone wrote it down.
Where do I get in line for that sort of deal??
I wonder if Sarah and John McCain have ordered one of his books yet? I guess he wanted to get it out there for the holiday shoppers. Probably the next one he sells will be his first and last one. I give it about a week before it hits the two dollar pile.
...is these bone head dumb asses are "heroes" to the right wing nut cakes (most of them living in the back woods, but ALL of them attending their evangelical churches regularly).
A nation of morons....currently led by one of the biggest ones known to man.
Possibly with Jebbie.
Or, if the financial apocalypse does actueally ensue, then with the Huckster...
Isn't the baby due about now? What happened there, did the kid get married yet? Is the baby's other granny, who was arrested on drug charges, out of jail yet?
Was this really the best time for Sarah to draw attention to herself?
We all know that family values pimps don't discuss their own whore-dog particulars.
last week for peddling Oxycontin.
These folks are white-trash, through and through.,..
No, really!
Now there's a match made in Armaggedon!
A classic Baptist snake-charmer plus his Speaking-In-Tongues, pistol-packin', Endtimer-courtin' Whore O'Babylon!
resonate more deeply than in times of plenty.
The times of plenty are gone. Done. Toast. Finito!
Now it just remains to be seen how long and how deep the period of pain lasts...
I doubt it will be anywhere near over by 2011...and that's when the prayin and preyin will begin to look really GOOD to the Lumpen-proles out there in the heart-land...
Remember '32 in Germany, when it took a wheel-barrow to carry around enough money to buy a loaf of bread? You're naive if you think that can't--or won't--happen again...
Remember, there are people around, even here, who see no conflict with the secular President of the secular State to swear his fealty to the secular Constitution on a book of silly sectarian myths...
I wish she was let loose to the media. I know we got her message, but I would have liked to hear more of it. I love to laugh.
'I can see Russia from my house' oh, wait, she didn't say that, did she? That's right, it was Tina Fey. Hard to tell them apart.
continues going downhill, and the Prez-elect continues similar policies, and she runs in 2012, she will be the next Prez. It's that simple, cuz people are simple.
scares the hell out of me, because I fear it may be true. Those who say "Come on, GOP, please run Sarah in 2012" may have forgotten that sinking feeling we had in 2000: "No! The American people wouldn't vote for the dumb one, would they?" Fool me once, shame on, shame on, oh, shit.
Like Obama or not, saving us from having to entrust Grandpa and this stool sample(with lipstick) with getting us out of the present quicksand of shit we're in is enough to make me want to cry from joy.
This entire Nation should feel like Tim Robbins after he escaped prison in "The Shawshank Redemption".
Just imagine all the family fu*k ups her family can bag by 2012. I don't think she will be as fresh and new as she was this past campaign. She's become a joke and by then she'll be an older joke.
Also, she won't have that "hot piece of tail" look in 2012. She'll be a mother to a 5 year old with special needs and a grandchild of a similar age. That puts years on a face. She'll also be cleaning the shit off that fan in Alaska due to her corruption; she has Track in Iraq to deal with, Piper hitting puberty and Willow may be ripe with child or already have a few puppies by then. To paraphrase Shakespeare, love lies not in the heart of the GOP, but with its eyes.
The Oxycontin will make a few members of the family go deaf, she'll have that to deal with and also.
toad and just as pretty.
she thinks that was mccain's biggest mistake, bwahahahahaa
another instance of stellar-sarah and her extra-phenomenal ability to miss the obvious.
please GOP, make sarah your standard bearer, i am begging you!
The fact that she even had one chance in hell of becoming our vice president should scare the hell out of everyone. I mean, what the hell does that say about our country? No wonder we're in all kinds of freakin' trouble. The mentality of our country must be sinking daily.
What a piece of fucking shit.
Where's the blow-hole?
Morons like Palin, Bush, Romney, etc., seem to always find a way to help destroy reasonable, thoughtful and logical discussions with their lack of intellect, curiosity, and constant lying.
Will Americans ever return to getting smarter instead of dumber?
not as long as there is teevee
Why do you think they call it "programming"?
And the new boxes will have some more mind-control features built right in; that's why it was passed BY LAW and our gubmint is kind enough to make sure everybody gets one.
Never thought of it like that...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNI9t69rvs8
that's why he chose you. I'll bet he'dve loved you taking on the press 24/7 on his behalf.
It's the best picture of her I have ever seen.
It really captures the essence of her phoniness while at the same time shows how scary she really looks.
Ugh.
Alaskans should be ashamed for electing her.
Winking at the camera during a critical VP Presidential debate(job interview) was so embarrassing...the "highly moral" conservatives should have been more offended than we were.
That pathetic display wouldn't have worked at the sleaziest of strip clubs.
I just got a christmas card from a friend with the winking Palin on the cover. When you open the card, the inside reads "Youbetcha! Back home in Alaska,I can see Santa's HOUSE from my porch!"
That's funny!
Don't laugh too much. That laughable half-witted chump who made almost everyone's life hell for the last eight years managed to get "elected", after all.
It was kinda cool that she wore a full sized American flag and flag pole on her suit. How many women could pull that off without the weight of it making them fall face forward to the ground?
Sarah is blaming all this on McCain and his team. This is how politics works when you lose. Many men are just looking at Sarah as a sex object knowing she's a dumb as a door knob. Now I do feel bad for the religious people who followed her and anyone who believed her lies. Please note Bristol hasn't had her second child yet. Sarah openly lied and covered up the fact her 16 year old daughter had a child and then got pregnent again. It was the math that told the truth. Now as a Mother myself I would protect my daughter, but Sarah wasn't protecting Bristol she was looking out for herself only. Journalist Andrew Sullivan is following this and every doctor with a license knows 252 days will deliver a full term child. Bristol wasn't 5 months pregnent in Sept. as Sarah said but it was a quick answer with counting.
her.
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I sure don't!! Many of those people are the reason that the election was as close as it was!
"Everyone was fooled except Obebe, who was old and wise and did not
believe in river devils, and the witch doctor who was old and wise
and did not believe in them either, but realized that they were
excellent things for his parishioners to believe in."
[Edgar Rice Burroughs, "Tarzan and the Ant Men"
Is Tarzan and the Ant Men the only one where his grandson made an appearance? What was his name?
Picking Palin was McCains biggest mistake. Living in Alaska I feel I also need to say that Alaskans picking Palin for governor was a mistake. Poverty is rising here in Alaska, and the cost of living far out exceeds wages. With that in mind I feel it's insensitive and uncaring that Palin may be getting a $25,000 a year raise. That is more than I make in a year. Sarah Palin has never been in touch with the needs of Alaskans. She would have never been interested in the needs of Americans. Palin only cares about herself.
That would cover Palin's shoe shopping. She can team up w/Condi unless her Aryan tendencies prohibit.
WTF is going on -- I thought it was skanky enough when a mother does not stop what she's doing long enough to focus on a teenage pregnancy to the exclusion of the mom's own SELFISH needs!
I really hope the Republicans run her in 2012. DO IT!
Put her on TV in front of the press every single day of the campaign! DO IT!!!
Make her the leader of your party, Republicans!!! DO IT!!! DO IT!!!!
The reality of the situation is that this woman doesn't have a clue about how truly incompetent she is for the job she wanted, much less the presidency.
That should make her an absolute delight to run against in four years - but because the American electorate is so stupid, we can't assume that. Still, my gut reaction is - sure - let her go - let her run unfettered. I think she'd sink her own ship in record time.
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Long before 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv8k_XXJ7_M
There are (sadly) many eternally ignorant people in this nation who can't be helped, but enough sound minded folk who understand the horrific repercussions of the Bush reign of madness to not allow another criminal nightmare to happen so soon again.
I think we did a slightly better job this go 'round...
I mean, hell, if I got involved, and actually read about the candidates...then who knows how many others did the same...
Even so...it was too close for my likin.
But I think we are becoming more sophisticated voters...slowly but surely.
It's pure insanity/vanity for Sarah to think that she could have survived any more interviews - I'll give Team McCain credit for that at least.
I rilly hope she sticks around. It'll be better than that there Britney Spirs complete psychotic meltdown - but we get the whole family in the dill too! Serially knocked up daughter, drug dealing mother in laws, snow mobil racin' hubby.
As our Dear Leader would say, "bring it on"!
That has GOT TO BE the funniest headline C&L has posted all year. You just took the prize.
His BIGGEST mistake was selecting the dumb bitch to be on his ticket. He dropped his shorts and passed dark blue gas in public on that one. I know he regrets it now, but what an ass.
This dumb bitch is the biggest loser I've EVER SEEN in politics. I hope to hell she gets a piece of the repug ticket again in 2012 somehow. She will definitely draw the loons from the party right, but oh my GOD......what a f*cking joke this idiot is.
Go visit your future mother-in-law and spend some time with your unwed daughter and her possible padre-sacrificial lamb. What a f*cked up mess she lives in...and she can still see Russia from her kitchen window.....lol, lol, lol.......too funny for more words.
Please let this stupid bitch and her fucked up, "Jerry Springer Show" family return in 2012. She's capable of destroying the Jim Crow Party.
queen of the stupids. The ideal candidate for reslugs in 2012.
By then she'll have four more unwanted kids and three more grandchildren. They'll partner her with michelle "clown car" dugger or Joe "Douche on a stick" the plumber. You know, so she'll look smarter by comparison.
for selling or buying meth from an undercover cop.
She'll just have "Tawd" shake down the law again and the problem will disappear.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/josero...
btw, wasnt her daughter due a couple of days ago???
where is that baby???
Shielded her from the press? Wasn't this the dummy who when she finally got back to Alaska and wasn't being kept on a short leash, held a press conference in front of a man slaughtering turkeys?
Yeah...pure comedic gold.
We would do well not to underestimate the star power of this woman. Whether you like her or not, whether you think she's qualified or not ( she isn't ). Conservatives by and large like her. 41 million of them turned out to vote for this ticket.
If we on the left don't do our jobs right, this woman will be our President in 2012 and then everything this nation stands for will be thrown into the crapper.
So keep an eye on the Democrats because they'll rob you just as blind as the Republicans. They'll just rob you differently.
even CONSIDER running Palin for ANYTHING again... it will prove that they have nobody in leadership and no new ideas and no justification for gaining any confidence in American voters... 'cept maybe for Hockey Moms and Pitbulls.
Don't Blame John McCain. You did this all on your own. The truth is:
Most of us couldn't stand you, wink and all. Most of us thought you were an idiot. Most of us have pets with more common sense than you do.
We saw past your attempt to dress up (with a borrowed wardrobe) a bunch of bullshit in a pretty wrapper.
You are beneath contempt.
I can hear all of the Clocks in Bavaria going off at once....OR,
BBBHHWWWAAAAAAaaaaaa.... Laughing myself silly because this woman is scary....Rethuglican's will have a hard time dislodging her from their ass-checks in a couple of years...BBBBHHHWWWAAAAaaaaaaa.....
Dingleberry palin?
Reading some of the comments above I'm ashamed to be associated with folks on this comment thread calling her a 'dumb bitch.'
She's dumb, and so is bush, but the sexism apparent by those comments is beneath the discourse I expect from progressives. Gender makes no difference, race makes no difference, in willful stupidity.
And never misunderestimate the ignorance of the voting public. They elected bush twice.
This is what Big Brother really looks like.
After all, in answering the question of, "what was the biggest mistake," she didn't say whose campaign suffered for her lack of exposure.
Had Obama simply run ads of sarah palin talking night and day, with the message, "It's me and Joe or this," he would have won in an even bigger landslide. McCain went to Alaska digging for gold and he hit the stupid motherlode instead.
She is one scary lady. Sadly she has many fans and she's so good at frothing up the hate.
Plus, she's an idiot. It is hard to imagine there could be somebody worse than Bush. But she is.
its awesome, that someone can be this obviously stupid and this completely loved by the GOP base. its just the best.
Typical Republican , fantasy land , reality is not her forte' . Comment above is right on . LOL
It's like Bill Maher said in one of his "Real Time" shows....Palin is without the gene that causes embarrassment!
And to think that Limpballs last week said that he "loved" Sarah Palin?!?!?!
What the heck is wrong with these people? Where in the world do they come from? Certainly not from this planet!!!
The hardest view that one will ever see and truly never know is in the mirror.
Allow the lady to run her mouth. Her lack of intellect is very evident. Watch how fast this bimbo's star fades into oblivion. Her lone hope is the obvious ignorance of trailer park america that supports her. but i believe that even they have their limits...maybe.
Come on folks do you really think the white testosterone rich GOPs think Palin is on for 2012? There was no way they were going to nominate after the Bush apocalypse. They threw McCain and Palin under the bus. 2011, will see a new line-up of rich powerful repug mofos, but if Obama is going to be successful in changing things around and I think he will to the extent the landscape as we know it will be unrecognisable. Maybe in 2012 if they know they can't win, they will throw Palin under the bus again with some other schmuck they can dig up. The next three years are going to be so life changing, 2008 and the imposters and poseurs will be a distant memory. In fact can we stop talking about these losers by the time of the inauguration, please.
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