Maybe the McCain campaign shouldn’t have called Sarah Palin a ‘diva’ and a ‘whack job’. You know, I don’t think those insults sat very well with her.
Transcript of CNN’s response:
Wolf Blitzer: And this just coming into the “Situation Room,” the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin now speaking out openly about her intentions in 2012 if, if she and John McCain were to lose this contest next Tuesday. In an interview with ABC News, Sarah Palin is now saying, she would be interested in remaining a serious national political figure, going ahead to 2012. She was asked what happens in 2012 if you lose on Tuesday, would you simply go back to Alaska? Elizabeth Vargas of ABC News asked her and Palin said this, and I will read it to you verbatim according to an ABC News transcript: “Absolutely not,” Sarah Palin says. “I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we’ve taken, that … that would … bring this whole … I’m not doin’ this for naught,” and that is a direct quote from Sarah Palin. Clearly, leaving open the possibility that she would be interested in leading the Republican Party in 2012 if she and John McCain were to lose this presidential contest right now. Let’s go to Dana Bash. She has been covering the McCain campaign reaction from the rather blunt statement from Sarah Palin that she would in fact be interested in leading the Republican Party going forward after Tuesday if they lose?
Dana Bash: I just got off of the phone, Wolf, with a senior McCain adviser and I read this person the quote and I think it is fair to say that this person was speechless. There was a long pause and I just heard a “huh” on the other end of the phone. This is certainly not a surprise to anybody who has watched Sarah Palin that she is interested in potentially future national runs, and she is being urged to by a lot of people inside of the Republican Party if they do lose, but it is an “if” and people inside of the McCain campaign do not want any discussion that has an “if” in front of it six days before the election, they don’t want any discussion at all, any kind of hypothetical talk about running for the next time around. So certainly, this is not at least initially being received well inside of the McCain campaign.
Wolf Blitzer: I am not surprised, not surprised at all. It is one of those “wow, she is talking about 2012 if we lose,” that is not supposed to be something that you say. You are supposed to say, “well, I’m not looking ahead, I’m not looking ahead only to Tuesday,” and those are the talking points she’s supposed to be saying, but she is obviously blunt and she is looking ahead if something were to happen on Tuesday that she wouldn’t be happy with.
I don’t blame Palin. Maybe she should have her aides call McCain a ‘codger’ and ‘unhinged’.
Palin/Quayle 2012!
Be still my beating heart.
This ad was just on my teevee. Seriously:
WOW.
That’s great!
Congratulations Phillies fans. I missed the whole game. (Well I saw the part that took place the other night.) When is the parade?
Friday at noon! CBtY gets out of school at 11:00 (it was already a half day on the schedule.)
Oh My.
They should be thankful….the $150K designer clothes won’t be wasted.
The train wreck that is McSame/Palin just got hit by another train the jumped the tracks from four counties over, and is now busy trying to make baby train wrecks with the first train wreck.
…predicting that God Almighty will personally come down and throw the election on her behalf.
That’s a step in the right direction. 🙂
You mean the maverick got all maverickey? Whoda thunk?
No doubt that she can see 2012 from her house.
so in the closing days of a close election, McCain will waste another day on a Sarah Palin mistake. If Mccain was smart he would send her to Alaska to campaign.
Well, at least she demonstrated that her outsized ambition matches her outsized ego.
The sad fact is that Sarah Palin does not know the difference between charisma and notoriety. As a creature of manufactured notoriety, she is totally unaware that her current popularity was created by the media mainly for the purpose of maintaining their positions in the communications business. From my perspective she is really a pitiful figure who is doomed to return to obscure isolation once the Mccain circus leaves the media stage. She has absolutely nothing to sustain interest in her by the power brokers in and out of the Republican Party. However, a full hero’s welcome awaits her back home among the members of the Alaska Independence Party.
Will she hold a press conference between now and 2012?