she also claims she “knew the interview went badly”

but then she goes on to say “katie only broadcast the gotcha moments”

so, sarah, which is it?

did you have a bad interview or was it selective editing, take your pick, you can’t have both, unless of course you are suggesting katie should have cleaned up your mess

At least she admits to not having done less than she could have done.

Palin saying it was a bad interview is not exactly evidence that she IS qualified.

I don’t think I was to blame for losing the race more than I could have been credited for winning the race if I had done a better job

I actually half agree and half disagree

mccain was losing no matter what, sarah was not to blame

if mccain managed to win it certainly would have been because of sarah, he was getting no contributions and nobody comming to his stumps, sarah changed that and people started comming out to see the mccain campaign

there is no question in my mind, they didn’t lose because of sarah and if they won that would have been because of sarah

she really did have a no lose scenario, yet she managed to lose in that scenario anyway whence people actually blame her for mccains failure

Sarah doesn’t believe people should ask her questions, or as in the case of the VP debate, she should be allowed to ignore the question and talk about something about which she possesses more insight… anthropology or geology for instance.

Palin could make a great living as a hostess at one of the bars outside the naval base in Yokosuka.

tee hee

little dick is floating a cheney/sarah oh twelve, if she believes that’s a winning ticket she’s a bigger moron then sarah

Nothing is ever her fault.

I remember saying early on that I I didn’t think McCain could win, but I thought it possible for Obama to lose. It didn’t play out that way though.

lol.

Or maybe at Clark.

Though — when 60% of the country thinks she wasn’t qualified, she certainly didn’t help.

Absolving herself of all responsibility for the loss, in light of those dismal numbers, is a little much.

:)

She’d make a fortune at the Blue Moon in Hong Kong.

I honestly don’t think McC could have won no matter who his VP was but Sarah just made the whole campaign a joke. When a politician becomes a national joke, he’s finished.

Or the turkey farm at Yangicol

Right. It’s not so much that she’s the sole reason he lost, but she ensured the loss.

Very different from her breezy, “Didn’t matter what I did!” BS.

Be careful what you wish for. Bush/Cheney “won” twice.

Any Republican would have had to run on Bush’s record, plus McCain appeared completely befuddled by the financial meltdown. Sarah was just the icing on a very bad cake. Kind of surprising that it wasn’t an even bigger blowout.

It will not be as easy for the Dems in ’12, although I haven’t seen any evidence that the GOP is getting it’s act together.

I also love the use of passive voice there — “the economy tanked” — as though that were completely unrelated to policies.

Yeah, we’re gonna have a fight on our hands next year. Again. Getting past the moron factor is gonna be a trick with their control over the media.

To me, it wasn’t that Sarah was the reason for the loss. It was the CHOICE of Sarah that made many people think twice about McCain: his impulsiveness, his recklessness, his decision-making. Then the economy tanked.

I agree. Palin is right in that she doesn’t bear all or even most of the responsibility for the loss. But her performance didn’t inspire much confidence, in me at least.

I don’t think anyone could have foreseen that they would use planes as weap- Whoops, wrong self-serving analogy.

At least she’s not (yet) claiming that God let her done, lilke my niece did the other day when she explained her religious crisis, which was caused by her best friend stealing her boyfriend. It’s always someone else’s fault.

Yeah, the Democrats aren’t exactly excelling at the governing thing either. 2010 and 2012 will be much more difficult than they should be.

Classic redneck cult of victimization. While somebody is certainly responsible for your repeated, ongoing failures, it sure as shit ain’t you.

We need a lot more candidates who don’t piss themselves at any mention of the L-word. That right of center bullshit isn’t helping anybody.

The GOP has had a lot of success with the Caucasians and Christians are a persecuted minority theme. Of course, only an imbecile would believe it, so you have to at least give them credit for knowing their base.

We need to vet our candidates better. Centrists and right of center need not apply. Matter o’ fact we need to label these people what they are: neoliberals. The hell with this centrist/right of center meme.

I think the reason we lost is that the economy tanked under a Republican and people were very seriously looking for a change.

This is probably the dumbest thing she ever said.

Back to work.

Namaste

it’s absolutely horrifying this woman was so close to the white house.

it’s an indictment on all of us.

the reason they lost is because of bush/cheney, they lost long before the economy tanked

they didn’t stand a chance no matter what the economy looked like

great point, the have managed to sell snow to the eskimo

Oh, boy.

Too bad the focus in the picture above wasn’t reversed.

Less Palin, more blond with the camera, ggggrrrr.

There is some truth in the statement although it probably is not what she meant. Dems and Republicans were both responsible for the past 25 years of deregulation. It was going to blow up sooner or later and the party currently at the helm would get most of the blame.

Of course it was St. Ronnie who really got the ball rolling but the Dems don’t even have the guts to say so. Obama still expresses admiration for Reagan. We can’t correct the mistakes of the past when we refuse to even acknowledge them.

ratfood, that is one perfect post

Like I said this AM:

The only way one’s life can be a blend of redemption and revenge is if one is disfunctional. Otherwise, one cannot be both at the same time from a Christian perspective.

I think Going Rouge will have her narrative a bit closer to the reality of the disfunction.

If she is going to look at her life as a series of “gotcha” moments” and fail to take responsibility for failure, she needs help. She is not the embodiment of Christian persecution. She is the embodiment of a Christian enabler of failure.

I cannot tolerate the “I am a victim” narrative in the face of irresponsibility.

Thanks, probably an overstatement of the painfully obvious but that is what I do best. :)

1 p.m., time to seize the day. See ya later.

disagree. nothing about her to date indicates any kind of work ethic. she confuses selling the sizzle with serving the steak

Andy Borowitz says that Sarah is going to read her book as soon she has time to really get her teeth into it.

Is it true they strapped Sarah to the cone?

Andy Borowitz says that Sarah is going to read her book as soon she has time to really get her teeth into it.

Translation: She will never read it. And it has nothing to do with time.

Yeah, the Democrats aren’t exactly excelling at the governing thing either. 2010 and 2012 will be much more difficult than they should be.

Sad, but true. I’m still hoping that we will still see some real results. If real reform isn’t forthcoming, though, they’re going to lose big time, an deservedly so.

Since she didn’t write it, she might as well skip reading it. She would have to move her lips and that’s tiring.

We need to vet our candidates better. Centrists and right of center need not apply.

Any sense that this is happening? I’m kind of hoping that Jane will decide to work more on primaries in 2010 House races, like working with primary challengers to rid of Mike Ross and Jim Cooper.

Failing into success and wealth, Ms. Palin will give Carly Fiorina a run for her money. Perhaps the duo will pair up and give us the Martin & Lewis, the Rowan & Martin, of bids for the presidency in 2012. It’s a toss up who would be on top.

While entertaining, that abundant lack of talent on the GOP side would lead Obama to move farther right in order to accumulate the votes of leaderless conservatives. That would leave progressives and much of middle America in the lowlands, ahead of a coming perfect storm of economic winds and rightwing political tide. The civic and legal levees, already under pressure, would not hold for long.

According to the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released today, only 28 percent of Americans say Palin is qualified to run the White House.

That’s less than three in ten Americans who still delude themselves into believing that Sarah Palin is qualified to be President of the United States rather than, say, a talk show host.

Does this not-at-all-surprising news mean that CNN can finally move all their useless stories about Palin to the Entertainment page, where they belong?

Her victim narrative is perfect for fundamentalist christians. Already outsiders religiously, with many sharing the same economic hardships as their neighbors (while ignoring the rightwing policies that led to or failed to ameliorate them), they will cling to victimhood instead of demanding change. Combine that with the growth of the Christ is the way to wealth subculture that is growing in America, and Palin will be just the ticket.

Her near certain loss would only confirm their view that Palin was the right choice. The conclusion that peaceful electoral politics was no longer a way to salve their grievances seems inevitable. Tea would yield to stiffer drinks.

I was afraid that Oprah would throw up soft ball bullshit questions that no one cared about. I was right. That said, Palin’s quest to blame the “perky one”, that pesky Katie Couric, who badgered her, was really pathetic. This hillbilly grifter is indeed, low on self awareness.

I hope that less than 3 in 10 continue to view Bible Spice as competent for POTUS, but I have growing concern that many conservatives would still vote for her if she was the candidate. The fact that some 58 million (? too lazy to check the figure) still voted for McCain/Palin last year gives me cold comfort, indeed.

It’s clear that the GOP and their corporatist media enablers are still on the Snowbilly Grifter bandwagon and are still wanting to shill her our to the credulous teabaggers, who, as observed above, appear incapable of self-reflection and continue to victimize themselves at every turn. My teabagging family (very well educated, well traveled and reasonably sophisticated) & acquaintances all love Sarah to pieces, feel that she has been unfairly maligned by the eeevul librul media, and so forth. There’s far too many out there who think this way, and they all vote.

It sounds like Oprah tossed her softballs – no surprise; guess Oprah needs another mansion. In the name of (gag) “feminism” they all appear duty bound to tred lightly around airheaded Caribou Barbie and pretend that she’s got something intellible to say.

Hope I’m completely wrong, but she makes me nervous. My reckoning is that, if McCain hadn’t picked her, he would’ve done far worse in the election. Sad to say, very sad to say.

Is that ‘Cuda,’ as in barracuda, or is it ‘cuda,’ as in ‘I cuda been a contendah’?

Palin & Joe The Plumber 2012. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Disagree that McCain was losing no matter what. McCain, not Palin, blew it. He:

1) should have continued to pound away at Obama’s lack of experience.

2) he should have chosen Mitt Romney as his VP. Mitt would have brought $$ to the team, experience, and ties to Michigan (and given the economic woes of that state, it could have been won by the Republicans).

3) instead, McCain threw the die, being the gamble and nitwit that he is, and thought Palin was an instant solution. That backfired badly on him but it shows he has a poor eye for evaluating talent.

4) McCain should have broken completely and definitely with W much earlier. Like Humphrey and LBJ, McCain waited too long. He should have played up on his “independent, maverick” side rather than having hued a traditional Republican candidacy.

McCain and his campaign team, not Palin, made the key mistakes of the campaign. McCain could easily be president now IF he had run the right kind of campaign.