The Palin Spin Machine: throws Republicans under the bus
Talk about some spin coming out of Palin now:
“It’s amazing that we did as well as we did,” Palin, who was Sen. John McCain’s running mate, said of the election in a separate interview with the Anchorage Daily News.
“I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10 trillion debt in a Republican administration? How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration? If we’re talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party at the time had been representing,” Palin said in a story published Sunday.
She really threw the Republicans under the bus. I love it!
As Marc Ambinder point out, this might all be a strategy for reconstituting herself in the eyes of the electorate for 2012. Her approval numbers (according to exit polls) were abysmal, so she needs to do something for sure.
November 11th, 2008 12:10
? She’s wrong? She is exactly right. The McCain camp in no way addressed that this administration would be different from the current one. A major hurdle that they ignored existed. Palin is 100% correct.
November 11th, 2008 12:12
She’s wrong if she wants to be around in 2012. Dissing the Republican infrastructure is probably not the best strategy.
November 11th, 2008 12:20
I think she might be realizing that the Repubs have decided she’s the scapegoat and fall person. If she doesn’t speak up, she’s going to disappear into nothingness.
November 12th, 2008 10:17
When I was a kid before the turn of the century in ‘48 Harry Truman’s campaign train came through our town.
Mom & Dad were Republicans in an era when there must have only been 100 or so Republicans in the whole state of Oklahoma.
Never forget Mom taking us down to see him standing on the back of the train. She told us that she did not like his politics, and that she was voting for Dewey – But, this man was president, and we must always respect the office.
Probably no Vice President was ever less qualified to take that office when FDR chose him – and no one ever less qualified to be President – and FDR certainly didn’t help him much.
When FDR died in April, 1945, Harry didn’t even know we had an Atomic Bomb, FDR apparently forgot to tell him. 4 months later he ended a war with it. The world lost its innocence and changed forever..
Harry was feisty and stood up against anyone who needed to be stood up against. He spoke as loud as his stick was big. He fought with John L. Lewis, the coal union guy, and with the Railroads – Even banished a reporter with a lack of taste in music, and with a distinct lack of judgment publically critiqued Margaret’s singing. No one was safe if they deserved to be “called out”.
He stood for what he fought for – fought for what he stood for. Twas never a doubt where he stood, or where he’d draw the line. Still not sure how I feel about the MacArthur thing, but in retrospect Harry was probably right, as unpopular as that was.
The office made him a better president than he was a candidate.
I pray the Office makes Obama a better president than his history would indicate.
I followed in Mom’s footsteps and am still a Republican, but still look back fondly on Harry – the way he did his job, and the way he gave em hell when they needed it., .
On a personal note – Sarah Palin reminds me a lot of Harry.