Now, geo999 took exception to this video over at RMG, saying that
Sarah Palin was responding to a direct question by Vargass as to whether she would be interested in the 2012 race were she and John McCain to be unsuccessful in their current campaign.
Context is everything, isn’t it, Laurel?
So no. No shiv by Governor Palin.
All I can say is, are we talking about the same Sarah Palin, the one who has made herself famous for not answering questions she doesn’t want to? She apparently was happy enough to entertain what-ifs and to let that giant IF dangle out there in front of “McCain-Palin win”. Poor McCain. He had no idea his hired pitbull would go for his juglar. What an old fool. Here ’tis:
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.
Transcription thx to Pam.
And last but not least, we have Chris Shays with this to say of the McCain campaign
Shays told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Republican nominee’s campaign has gone too negative against Obama, and has muted his message of being an independent thinker with the best ideas and experience needed to solve the nation’s problems.
With the tone of the campaign and Obama’s lead in the polls, McCain will have a difficult time winning the presidency, Shays said…
With friends like these…
With all due respect to geo, the idea that she was asked a direct question and so had no choice but to answer it is UTTERLY hilarious. For God’s sake, she announced at the outset of her one and only nationally televised debate that she didn’t feel bound to answer the questions she was asked! Furthermore, ANY politician in her position would dodge that question by declaring that she’s completely focused on winning on November 4, and things after that will just have to wait.
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p>I mean, come on — “I’m not doing this for naught”?? She’s as disloyal as they come. What a fool John McCain was to pick her.
“…in which Romney also seems to predict that a victory for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is imminent.”
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p>”… as we face the very real possibility of an Obama presidency, that’s the last thing we need.”
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p>So, in political speak does “very real possibility” mean imminent?