RSS Feed MenuDuring her interview with Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Palin tried to come across as a “perky, folksy” working mom. She blamed McCain campaign staffers for her shortcomings and inadequacies as McCain’s VP pick. Palin argued that they wouldn’t let her be herself, wanted to make over her family or refused to allow her to give a concession speech along with McCain.
In defending the “bad” interview with Katie Couric, Palin told Oprah she thought the interview was going to be “light-hearted and fun, moms talking to moms.” Palin said she took offense at Couric asking her what publications she read because it implied she was “some kind of Neanderthal” living out there in Alaska. Palin expressed equal disgust with Couric asking her twelve times about her position on abortion. These though are basic questions any journalist would ask a vice-presidential or presidential candidate. Reflecting back on the Couric interview, she said laughingly to Oprah, “I don’t blame people for thinking I wasn’t qualified after seeing that interview.”
When Oprah asked her if she was shocked to receive the phone call from Senator John McCain about being his running mate, she said she “didn’t blink or question her ability.” Oprah later told Palin when she watched McCain announce her as his running mate, Oprah said “I was like wow, who is she?” Palin told Oprah she wasn’t to blame for McCain losing the 2008 presidential campaign. “I think the reason that we lost, the economy tanked under a Republican administration. People were sincerely looking for change,” she says. “I think, unfortunately, our ticket represented what was perceived as status quo. And so I don’t think that I was to blame for losing the race any more than I could be credited with winning the race had I done a better job as the VP candidate.”
At the end of her interview, Palin told Oprah she’s not “retreating, she’s re-loading.” For what role specifically, Palin wouldn’t say but Oprah asked if she was going to get her own talk show. Seems like the natural role for her because while she claimed to Oprah she’s “really not into the drama,” it follows her everywhere andwould be great for ratings if not for politics.
sinz54 // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:25 am
mymy: SINZ so your saying if she had aborted Trig CEOs would have liked her?
I don’t know if they would have liked her. Because she did one other thing that they despise: She quit her job as Governor.
I’ve worked for female managers. They were as tough as nails, always trying to prove they could make it in a formerly male-dominated profession. They wouldn’t resign their position before they already had a better job offer lined up elsewhere. They, like anyone else in senior level positions, had been bruised and bloodied by corporate politics. But they wouldn’t quit.
When Sarah Palin resigned her position, she blew it. She can never hope to impress female managers or executives again.
sinz54 // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:27 am
MI-GOPer: It’s just that you aren’t welcome in these parts.
Speak for yourself.
I welcome her contributions.
This is one blog where you are not going to harass and bludgeon those who disagree with you into fleeing. I hope “anniemargaret” stands her ground and refuses to leave. I intend to do likewise.
sinz54 // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:30 am
teabag: I will continue to call BS whenever it arises here
General George S. Patton once said:
If everyone is thinking alike,
then no one is thinking.
anniemargret // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:35 am
centristNY: Thanks….too.
PracticalGirl // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:36 am
MyMy makes a great point about the questions Palin has fielded regarding children and higher office. there does, indeed, seem to be a bit of a double standard. She has, however, absolutely traded on her “mom-ness” in an attempt to seem like Everywoman and has been very loud about her children being her priority. So I think its a fair question.
Something I find strange and very revealing- Palin and her supporters have complained bitterly about her perceived mistreatment and out-of-context quoting at the hands of the mainstream media. It was a focus of her late campaigning, even dominated the first day of the RNC convention. She even starred in a documentary with the sole purpose of making the point that the mainstream media screwed her.
Why, then, now that she is in complete control of her media schedule, did she choose FIRST to go to the evil mainstreamers? Of course it’s because she’s still waging a campaign of popularity, this time to sell books, and her choices of interviews reflect this. But she has nobody to blame this time but herself if she doesn’t like the questions, editing or picture choices. Still, the right wing screamers (Ann Coulter, especially) are out shouting at the wind that Palin is again being treated unfairly.
Honestly, Palin may still be culturally relevant but has proven herself to be a willing, one-note victim when it somes to complaints about the media as well as quite vindictive with the contents of her book. She may be polling high in the “likability” category, but is she Presidential material? Nope, but she might be a very successful talk show host.
MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:36 am
sinz54 abjures: “New Majority leans right of center because the contributors who post articles lean right of center. That doesn’t mean that a sincere liberal who wants to post a dissenting point of view should be intimidated or chased out of here.”
Frum’s Forum, sinz54, isn’t about a right of center political policy debate… it’s about rebuilding the conservative movement, reconfiguring the GOP into a winning movement. If you think some of the articles here have been “right of center” –my God, you are waaaaaay out in left field, pal. Literally and politically. This place is about those two goals. Frum has said it over and over.
That isn’t done by tolerating the far Left trollish behavior here that has spoiled and soiled the opportunity for real, meaningful, constructive debate here among those interested in the two primary goals noted above.
As a Ripon Republican, a gay father of three and a Marine, I can tell you that one of the first lessons learned in life is about the value of tribe. Annie-the-liar isn’t part of the tribe; she’s here to irritate and inflame –not discuss and debate with a constructive end in mind. These guys 9the far Left democrat activists) operate like politics is a substitute for the emotions of war or combat.
You don’t see it that way? You can try posting on HuffPo or the democrat underground… you’ll get all the usual lines there you hear coming out of annie-the-liar, TeaBag, automaticBS and OldSkool here. It’s just that their absence from here will allow those who are interested in rebuilding the conservative movement and the GOP to get on with the task without the annoying irritations that annie and her pals have come to represent.
MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:43 am
sinz54 claims: “When Sarah Palin resigned her position, she blew it. She can never hope to impress female managers or executives again.”
More BS. She resigned her job because she was hounded by massive legal and consulting fee bills that were crippling her family and her future. As long as she was governor, she was vulnerable for more legal battles and baseless, unfounded legal actions by the far Left Palin-haters. She resigned to let Alaska move on with its important business of governing. She resigned to meet her obligations and debts to her creditors. She did it because that was the honorable thing to do… and any manager or supervisor of anything above a Wendy’s knows that and will find her decision to be honorable and understandable.
Sometimes sinz54, you spout about as much BS as some of the far Left trolls here. Really, can you man-up for once?
MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:46 am
PracticalGirl opines: “But she has nobody to blame this time but herself if she doesn’t like the questions, editing or picture choices.”
Sorry to burst that partisan bubble, PracticalGirl, but even female liberals like Whoopi and BarbWa claim that the picture pro-Obama Newsweek used for it’s cover was sexist and inappropriate.
Now, what was that about “nobody to blame for.. picture choices”? Thought so.
MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:50 am
teabagged at 45 squeezes out another load: “I’m going nowhere. I will continue to call BS whenever it arises here, and it’s here on a daily if not hourly basis.”
You don’t have much to do then on this site. It seems most people here are calling you out for your BS, teabagged. A little reverse projection on your part won’t fix the reality… you’re the guy spreading the BS with a pitchfork. Or is that just your tail, you devilish little troll?
CentristNYer // Nov 18, 2009 at 11:08 am
@MI-GOPer: If anyone who thinks that Palin is unqualified to be president is a “far left winger,” then that means that nearly three quarters of all Americans would bear the label.
You sound like a deeply angry and embittered person. Your invective is so shrill and your insults so nasty and vicious that it really isn’t worth the time to rebut them. You dismiss all objective truth as “lies” and go nuclear against any opinion that dares to undermine your tenuous version of the truth.
I can only hope that you’re not infecting those three kids of yours with such undiluted bile. Seek help.
mymy // Nov 18, 2009 at 11:15 am
SINZ you 1st said the CEO disliked her because she didn’t have an abortion.Next you say they hate Gov.Palin because she quit her job.I guess if you are looking for a reason to dislike someone there is always one to be found.I wasn’t impressed with her resignation,but I assume it is better than going bankrupt over legal bills
Arch // Nov 18, 2009 at 11:43 am
I hope you stay too, Annie.
MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 11:56 am
CentristNYer tries a page from AutomaticBS’s playbook and puts the words he wants into other peoples’ mouths with: “MI-GOPer: If anyone who thinks that Palin is unqualified to be president is a “far left winger,” then that means that nearly three quarters of all Americans would bear the label.”
Sorry, troll. I never said that. You can try to sell that pile, but it still will stink at the end of the sale.
MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Now, what was that you were saying about how I spread lies?
Oh, right. This isn’t a fair example of you spreading a bald-faced lie, is it? Let’s not hold Centrist accountable for lying… that’s not fair.
The problem is, Centrist, you can’t rebutt people deconstructing your lies. And what’s with that name? Centrist? You’re like TeaBag… pick a name that is the inverse and use it to greater effect? Did Saul Alinsky teach that one in Bill Ayers’ class? Did he preach it as Rev Wright’s House of Worship?
Centrist, I’ve known centrists… you are no centrist.
MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 12:05 pm
And can we fianlly lay to rest all the denials of the far Left trolls here who claim “Oh, I don’t post on HuffPo or MoveOn or ACORN-Unites or Democrat Underground…
Here’s BlankHead’s profile from HuffPo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/users/profile/Balconesfault?action=profile
CentristNYer // Nov 18, 2009 at 12:30 pm
You’re really a very sad sack, MI-GOPer. You’re all piss, vinegar and truthiness.
But then I guess it makes sense that you’d be comfortable in the modern day Palin/Beck/teabag/birther GOP.
Best of luck to you with that…
Independent // Nov 18, 2009 at 1:43 pm
see, mi-gop? when you tell the truth, the far left calls you a liar. when you prove the truth with citations, the far left trolls here like centristnyer try to isolate you with their fake compassion and try to trash the republicans one more time.
i’m still wondering though why all these clearly left wing democrat activists find it necessary to come over to a blog that’s about rebuilding the gop and conservative movement… isn’t that the first proof that they are trolls?
by the way, centristnyer? you haven’t been here very long… the archives show you began posting on nov 4th… were you someone else before you created the faux-named “centristnyer”?
LFC // Nov 18, 2009 at 3:40 pm
MI-GOPer said… More BS. She resigned her job because she was hounded by massive legal and consulting fee bills that were crippling her family and her future.
You mean like the ethics complaint she filed against herself for political reasons, i.e. to block Troopergate?
AmericanMuser // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:51 pm
America’s elite and Palin-haters worldwide should not be so quick to dismiss or disregard the future of Sarah Palin. No other national political figure so completely fills Middle America’s vacuum of frustration and hate for the Left and Right as Sarah Palin.
Middle America has been abandoned by the Left and Right, who have saddled it with a $700 billion taxpayer bailout, an unnecessary and costly war, a soaring deficit, and an overall neglect of the pocketbook issues that impact Middle America every day. Where are job creation, quality public education, affordable healthcare, and fiscal responsibility, to name a few?
Middle America is mad as hell at the Left and Right and they just might be willing to roll the dice on someone like Palin, who lacks an Ivy League education, is a working class hockey-mom with a disabled child, and who has blue-collar roots like many of the folks in Middle America. The status quo on the Left and Right have produced nothing material for Middle America, which may toss conventional wisdom into the toilet and throw the lever for Palin, figuring it has nothing to lose, and it may be right.
The Ivy League educated on the Left and Right have delivered little to nothing for Middle America, perhaps precisely because they are out of touch with the issues that someone like Palin understands personally.
However, to say that Palin is a salmon swimming upstream is an understatement. The results of a CBS News survey released Monday indicate that 66 percent of respondents do not want her to run for the White House in 2012. Seventy percent of respondents to a CNN/Opinion Research poll said she is not qualified to be president.
More difficult for Palin is the fact that the trend is not her friend—public opinion is moving in the wrong direction right now.
In the CBS survey, 43 percent of GOP respondents said Palin would have the ability to be an effective president. Only 11 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of independents agreed.
However, there is an opportunity for Palin among independents, where Palin’s rating is 41 percent favorable, and 48 percent unfavorable, according to Gallup.
These numbers are not great, but there is plenty of time if she can move the needle by appealing to Middle America and independents, which is where elections are won or lost.
Clearly, Palin has put the monkey on her back, especially with her resignation from Alaska’s governorship in July, a self-inflicted wound that will be difficult to explain away. However, don’t put it past Palin to put lipstick on this pig and paint herself as a victim of politically motivated and baseless ethics charges that prevented her from successfully serving the people of Alaska, forcing her to do the noble thing and take the bullet by resigning.
We can say what we want about Palin, but no Republican in recent history has created such frenzied excitement across the country as she has. Just take a look at the fervor she stirs as she wheels across Middle America on her book tour.
Perhaps this is a misreading of the tea leaves, but one could argue that she creates a wee bit more excitement than Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee, the two Republican front-runners for president in 2012. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman just may be queen.
A. Muser
http://americanmuser.wordpress.com/
MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 11:15 pm
“Sarah Palin isn’t retreating. She’s reloading.” – Sarah’s Dad.
And from all the subsequent interviews this week, we now know how lame Oprah’s effort really was… I hope Sarah reloads and sights in Oprah, the View and Rachel MadCow. That’s some neat target practice I think would be worth a lot to watch.