Nytimes: At Governors Meeting, Palin Looks Ahead
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska did something here on Thursday that she did not do in her entire campaign as the Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee: she stood behind a lectern and held a news conference. She was asked what had changed.
“The campaign is over,” she said.
Granted, the question and answer session lasted only four minutes, and for only four questions. As she stood on a stage in a hotel overlooking Biscayne Bay, surrounded by 12 fellow governors, Ms. Palin was asked what message she hoped to get across.
“I’m trying to convey the message that Republican governors are a unique team,” said Ms. Palin, who said she was uninterested in discussing the campaign.
But Ms. Palin did allow herself a look back after the brief news conference ended, as she addressed a session of the Republican Governors Association and told them that she had managed to keep busy since their last conference.
“I had a baby, I did some traveling, I very briefly expanded my wardrobe, I made a few speeches, I met a few VIPS, including those who really impact society, like Tina Fey,” she said.
And yes, she spoke again of “Joe the Plumber,” the Ohio man who briefly dominated the McCain-Palin campaign and its talk about taxes.
Ms. Palin thanked the people who attended her rallies, including young women she hopes she has influenced.
“I am going to remember all the young girls who came up to me at rallies to see the first woman having the privilege of carrying our party’s VP nomination,” she said. “We’re going to work harder, we’re going to be stronger, we’re going to do better and one day, one of them will be the president.”
That raised again the question surrounding Ms. Palin since the election ended: will she run in 2012?
“The future is not that 2012 Presidential race, it’s next year and our next budgets,” she said. It is in 2010, she said, that “we’ll have 36 governors positions open.”
Ms. Palin tried to downplay her celebrity (even after a week in which she was featured in interviews on NBC, FOX News and CNN). In her speech, she tried to change the focus from herself to the work that Republican governors must now do, including developing energy resources to health care reform.
“I am not going to assume that the answer is for the federal government to just take it over and try to run America’s health care system,” Ms. Palin said. “Heaven forbid.”
She implored her fellow Republican governors to “show the federal government the way,” while also reforming their own party.
“We are the minority party. Let us resolve not to be the negative party,” Ms. Palin said. “Let us build our case with actions, not just with words.”
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Let's talk about 2012 a little bit, ok?
Here's a nice fair and balanced article from the AP all about good ol 2012. Start your watches ;)
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who clearly is looking ahead to her political prospects in 2012, said Wednesday that a woman would be good for the Republican presidential ticket in four years.
This year's GOP vice presidential nominee has been on a whirlwind series of postelection television interviews - she is slated for two on CNN on Wednesday. She traveled to Florida for the three-day Republican Governors Association meeting and is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion Thursday titled, "Looking Towards the Future: The GOP in Transition."
She was asked Wednesday about speculation that she is the party's future
"I don't think it's me personally, I think it's what I represent," Palin told reporters. "Everyday hardworking American families - a woman on the ticket perhaps represents that. It would be good for the ticket. It would be good for the party. I would be happy to get to do whatever is asked of me to help progress this nation."
Question on whether that was her priority, Palin said: "A priority for me is serving the constituents of the state of Alaska ... They hired me and I have an obligation, or a responsibility to serve Alaska as their governor."
A week after Election Day, Republicans are doing some soul-searching after losing the White House and seeing their numbers decrease in the Senate and House. Many in the GOP are looking to their governors for a fresh direction for the party and the best prospects for winning the presidency in 2012.
The telegenic Palin was a hit with Republican social conservatives. She has been fielding questions about her political future since the campaign ended.
In an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room," Palin did not rule out running for president in 2012 or seeking a seat in the Senate, depending on the fate of Republican incumbent Ted Stevens. She also said prayers to God were answered on Election Day.
Asked about a presidential bid, Palin said she was "not ruling that out but there again, that is based on my philosophy that it's crazy to close a door before you know what's even open in front of you."
In the near term, she could run for Stevens' seat in a special election. While the senator is leading in the continuing count from the election, he could be ousted by the Senate for his conviction on seven felony counts of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts, mostly renovations on his home.
"I'm going to serve Alaskans to the best of my ability. At this point it is as governor," she said. "Now if something shifted dramatically and if it were, if it were acknowledged up there that I could be put to better use for my state in the U.S. Senate, I would certainly consider that but that would take a special election and everything else. I am not one to appoint myself or a member of my family to take the place of any vacancy."
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who clearly is looking ahead to her political prospects in 2012, said Wednesday that a woman would be good for the Republican presidential ticket in four years.
This year's GOP vice presidential nominee has been on a whirlwind series of postelection television interviews - she is slated for two on CNN on Wednesday. She traveled to Florida for the three-day Republican Governors Association meeting and is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion Thursday titled, "Looking Towards the Future: The GOP in Transition."
She was asked Wednesday about speculation that she is the party's future
"I don't think it's me personally, I think it's what I represent," Palin told reporters. "Everyday hardworking American families - a woman on the ticket perhaps represents that. It would be good for the ticket. It would be good for the party. I would be happy to get to do whatever is asked of me to help progress this nation."
Question on whether that was her priority, Palin said: "A priority for me is serving the constituents of the state of Alaska ... They hired me and I have an obligation, or a responsibility to serve Alaska as their governor."
A week after Election Day, Republicans are doing some soul-searching after losing the White House and seeing their numbers decrease in the Senate and House. Many in the GOP are looking to their governors for a fresh direction for the party and the best prospects for winning the presidency in 2012.
The telegenic Palin was a hit with Republican social conservatives. She has been fielding questions about her political future since the campaign ended.
In an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room," Palin did not rule out running for president in 2012 or seeking a seat in the Senate, depending on the fate of Republican incumbent Ted Stevens. She also said prayers to God were answered on Election Day.
Asked about a presidential bid, Palin said she was "not ruling that out but there again, that is based on my philosophy that it's crazy to close a door before you know what's even open in front of you."
In the near term, she could run for Stevens' seat in a special election. While the senator is leading in the continuing count from the election, he could be ousted by the Senate for his conviction on seven felony counts of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts, mostly renovations on his home.
"I'm going to serve Alaskans to the best of my ability. At this point it is as governor," she said. "Now if something shifted dramatically and if it were, if it were acknowledged up there that I could be put to better use for my state in the U.S. Senate, I would certainly consider that but that would take a special election and everything else. I am not one to appoint myself or a member of my family to take the place of any vacancy."
Oh Take That MSNBC. SNAP.
Ok, liberal elite media, ya take the bait worse than Dan Rather.
Here's the story from AP:
MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.
Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.
"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."
Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.
The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin — not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.
Eisenstadt's "work" had been quoted and debunked before. The Huffington Post said it had cited Eisenstadt in July on a story regarding the Hilton family and McCain.
Among the other victims were political blogs for the Los Angeles Times and The New Republic, each of which referenced false material from Eisenstadt's blog.
And in July, Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones magazine blogged an item about Eisenstadt speaking on Iraqi television about a casino in Baghdad's "Green Zone."
Stein later realized he'd been had.
"Kudos to the inventor of this whole thing," Stein wrote. "My only consolation is that if I had as much time on my hands as he clearly does, I probably would have figured this out and saved myself a fair amount of embarrassment."
Here's the story from AP:
MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.
Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.
"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."
Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.
The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin — not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.
Eisenstadt's "work" had been quoted and debunked before. The Huffington Post said it had cited Eisenstadt in July on a story regarding the Hilton family and McCain.
Among the other victims were political blogs for the Los Angeles Times and The New Republic, each of which referenced false material from Eisenstadt's blog.
And in July, Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones magazine blogged an item about Eisenstadt speaking on Iraqi television about a casino in Baghdad's "Green Zone."
Stein later realized he'd been had.
"Kudos to the inventor of this whole thing," Stein wrote. "My only consolation is that if I had as much time on my hands as he clearly does, I probably would have figured this out and saved myself a fair amount of embarrassment."
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
My return to Alaska
Governor Sarah Palin receives a warm welcome from Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell (left) and her staff upon her return to her Anchorage office on November 7, 2008.
Forgetting Sarah Palin
Gov. Sarah Palin has disappeared from national politics and returned to her governorship in Alaska—at least until the 2012 campaigns get going—and I couldn’t be happier. But while she eases back into the habit of elk hunting and oil drilling, I worry that that the impact of her candidacy on Washington will be a deeply negative one.
This election saw two women come historically close to our government’s highest offices. But while Sen. Hillary Clinton fought an ambitious and powerful campaign—and was more often accused of being too manly than too feminine—Sarah Palin coyly and repeatedly played into many of her gender’s stereotypes. As her political blunders added up, she revealed her complete unpreparedness for politics at a national level and became Sen. John McCain’s greatest liability in his pursuit of the presidency.
It seems clear that Palin tried to win the election by seducing the American public and playing up her feminine assets. Winking during the debate and blowing kisses at her rallies, Palin certainly did not shy away from her femininity. And while female candidates should not have to hide from their gender, as Clinton arguably attempted to do, it hardly seems appropriate that they should flirt their way into the White House, either.
After McCain’s presidential campaign ended in defeat last week, more incriminating details about his vice-presidential pick emerged. In a moment better suited to “Nailin’ Palin,” the pornographic film she inspired, than to a presidential campaign, Palin reportedly greeted staffers at the Republican convention wearing only a towel. Whether or not this instance fits into a pattern of Palin using her sexuality as a means to an end, it certainly doesn’t demonstrate discretion or self-awareness.
I’m sure Hillary Clinton—like many other candidates male and female—enjoyed the opportunity to buy nice suits and get cleaned up for her public appearances. But Palin took this indulgence to a whole new level. In a news item that exploded in the buildup to Election Day, Palin may have spent nearly $200,000 on clothes for herself and her family. One aide described the behavior as “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast.” The governor’s irresponsible shopping spree highlighted the risks of putting a credit card in the hands of the wrong woman—and did little to dispel the preconception that all women are born shopaholics.
This election saw two women come historically close to our government’s highest offices. But while Sen. Hillary Clinton fought an ambitious and powerful campaign—and was more often accused of being too manly than too feminine—Sarah Palin coyly and repeatedly played into many of her gender’s stereotypes. As her political blunders added up, she revealed her complete unpreparedness for politics at a national level and became Sen. John McCain’s greatest liability in his pursuit of the presidency.
It seems clear that Palin tried to win the election by seducing the American public and playing up her feminine assets. Winking during the debate and blowing kisses at her rallies, Palin certainly did not shy away from her femininity. And while female candidates should not have to hide from their gender, as Clinton arguably attempted to do, it hardly seems appropriate that they should flirt their way into the White House, either.
After McCain’s presidential campaign ended in defeat last week, more incriminating details about his vice-presidential pick emerged. In a moment better suited to “Nailin’ Palin,” the pornographic film she inspired, than to a presidential campaign, Palin reportedly greeted staffers at the Republican convention wearing only a towel. Whether or not this instance fits into a pattern of Palin using her sexuality as a means to an end, it certainly doesn’t demonstrate discretion or self-awareness.
I’m sure Hillary Clinton—like many other candidates male and female—enjoyed the opportunity to buy nice suits and get cleaned up for her public appearances. But Palin took this indulgence to a whole new level. In a news item that exploded in the buildup to Election Day, Palin may have spent nearly $200,000 on clothes for herself and her family. One aide described the behavior as “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast.” The governor’s irresponsible shopping spree highlighted the risks of putting a credit card in the hands of the wrong woman—and did little to dispel the preconception that all women are born shopaholics.
Where now for Sarah Palin?
Election Day was barely over, and the debate over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s political future had already begun.
People on the McCain campaign began telling stories of how Governor Palin lacked basic knowledge: Among other things, they said she believed Africa was a country. In a string of press availabilities, Palin denied what McCain staffers suggested, said comments were taken out of context, and called the McCain aides who made the allegations “jerks.”
On Thursday, the Palin 2008 (2012?) tour continues in Miami, where she will give remarks at a Republican Governors Association meeting session called “Looking Toward the Future.” The governor, who spent little time with the press in her brief run with the McCain campaign, is still trying to define – and now redefine – herself to the American people.
A look through the prism of Patchwork Nation indicates that Palin’s political future is complicated.
Often during a heated campaign, voters who favor one candidate or another find themselves making polarized comments and taking more extreme positions than normal. After the vote, attitudes may be more forgiving. Thus far anyway, that doesn’t seem to be the case with Palin.
The election is still fresh, of course, but what we are hearing from our 11 communities about Palin seems fairly strong. Her detractors see her as ill-informed and out of her league in national politics. Her supporters see her as the future of the GOP.
“I couldn’t believe she, or the McCain campaign, would place her at that high level. I thought it said a lot about how that party views women especially, and competency in office in general,” e-mailed Beth Gurl, who works at the front desk at the Liberty Inn in Lincoln City, Ore. (our small-town “Service Worker Center”).
In Ann Arbor, Mich. (our collegiate “Campus and Careers” community), Patchwork Nation correspondent Cynthia Wilbanks said she was very conflicted about her vote last Tuesday and Palin pushed her away from Sen. John McCain. “I was disappointed in McCain’s choice in Sarah Palin. I simply did not see or buy the value added,” Ms. Wilbanks wrote in e-mail. “[A]nd I, like many, did not feel she had anywhere near the qualifications to become the president.”
Palin apparently had a similar impact in Eagle, Colo. (our growing and diversifying “Boom Town”), according to Katha Hartley, a Patchwork Nation correspondent there. “We can’t tell you the number of people we met who had, at one time, considered McCain but were influenced to vote [Barack] Obama after the Palin selection,” she wrote in an e-mail.
As we saw with our reporting during the campaign, Palin has a high mountain to climb in some of these locales. The concern is not so much about her positions – though we heard some of that as well. Rather, it is about her competence.
Four years is a long time in politics, and Palin will probably spend time trying to assuage those concerns if she holds hopes for 2012. But overcoming an image of being out of one’s depth is difficult. Look at the fate of former Vice President Dan Quayle, who wasn’t able to shake similar characterizations.
People on the McCain campaign began telling stories of how Governor Palin lacked basic knowledge: Among other things, they said she believed Africa was a country. In a string of press availabilities, Palin denied what McCain staffers suggested, said comments were taken out of context, and called the McCain aides who made the allegations “jerks.”
On Thursday, the Palin 2008 (2012?) tour continues in Miami, where she will give remarks at a Republican Governors Association meeting session called “Looking Toward the Future.” The governor, who spent little time with the press in her brief run with the McCain campaign, is still trying to define – and now redefine – herself to the American people.
A look through the prism of Patchwork Nation indicates that Palin’s political future is complicated.
Often during a heated campaign, voters who favor one candidate or another find themselves making polarized comments and taking more extreme positions than normal. After the vote, attitudes may be more forgiving. Thus far anyway, that doesn’t seem to be the case with Palin.
The election is still fresh, of course, but what we are hearing from our 11 communities about Palin seems fairly strong. Her detractors see her as ill-informed and out of her league in national politics. Her supporters see her as the future of the GOP.
“I couldn’t believe she, or the McCain campaign, would place her at that high level. I thought it said a lot about how that party views women especially, and competency in office in general,” e-mailed Beth Gurl, who works at the front desk at the Liberty Inn in Lincoln City, Ore. (our small-town “Service Worker Center”).
In Ann Arbor, Mich. (our collegiate “Campus and Careers” community), Patchwork Nation correspondent Cynthia Wilbanks said she was very conflicted about her vote last Tuesday and Palin pushed her away from Sen. John McCain. “I was disappointed in McCain’s choice in Sarah Palin. I simply did not see or buy the value added,” Ms. Wilbanks wrote in e-mail. “[A]nd I, like many, did not feel she had anywhere near the qualifications to become the president.”
Palin apparently had a similar impact in Eagle, Colo. (our growing and diversifying “Boom Town”), according to Katha Hartley, a Patchwork Nation correspondent there. “We can’t tell you the number of people we met who had, at one time, considered McCain but were influenced to vote [Barack] Obama after the Palin selection,” she wrote in an e-mail.
As we saw with our reporting during the campaign, Palin has a high mountain to climb in some of these locales. The concern is not so much about her positions – though we heard some of that as well. Rather, it is about her competence.
Four years is a long time in politics, and Palin will probably spend time trying to assuage those concerns if she holds hopes for 2012. But overcoming an image of being out of one’s depth is difficult. Look at the fate of former Vice President Dan Quayle, who wasn’t able to shake similar characterizations.
Cloistered for weeks, Palin is now everywhere
Suddenly, Sarah Palin is everywhere.
Palin, U.S. Republican nominee John McCain's vice presidential running mate, was kept cloistered for weeks during the heat of their losing campaign against Democrat Barack Obama.
The McCain campaign largely kept her under wraps out of fear that she might make more verbal missteps as she did in high-profile television interviews shortly after she was picked as McCain's No. 2.
But now that she is no longer under the watchful eyes of McCain campaign officials, the Alaska governor is talking, and talking and talking.
She will talk some more in Miami on Thursday when she holds a news conference and addresses a Republican governors meeting.
On Wednesday night, she was talking to CNN's "Larry King Live," where she was pressed on whether she had cost McCain the election.
"I personally don't think that I, Sarah Palin from Alaska, the VP pick, I don't believe that I caused the outcome to be what it was," she said. "I think the economy tanking a couple of months ago had a lot more to do with it than the VP pick."
This was just hours after CNN had her talking to anchor Wolf Blitzer, who wanted to know whether she might run for Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens' seat should Stevens have to step down because of a conviction for corruption.
Maybe, she said, while noting that she wants to serve the people of Alaska the best way she can and "at this point it is as governor."
"Now if something shifted dramatically and if it were, if it were acknowledged up there that I could be put to better use for my state in the U.S. Senate, I would certainly consider that but that would take a special election and everything else," she said.
"I am not one to appoint myself or a member of my family to take the place of any vacancy."
WHAT NEXT?
What about Palin running for president in 2012, Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren wanted to know the other day.
Palin did not rule it out.
Palin, U.S. Republican nominee John McCain's vice presidential running mate, was kept cloistered for weeks during the heat of their losing campaign against Democrat Barack Obama.
The McCain campaign largely kept her under wraps out of fear that she might make more verbal missteps as she did in high-profile television interviews shortly after she was picked as McCain's No. 2.
But now that she is no longer under the watchful eyes of McCain campaign officials, the Alaska governor is talking, and talking and talking.
She will talk some more in Miami on Thursday when she holds a news conference and addresses a Republican governors meeting.
On Wednesday night, she was talking to CNN's "Larry King Live," where she was pressed on whether she had cost McCain the election.
"I personally don't think that I, Sarah Palin from Alaska, the VP pick, I don't believe that I caused the outcome to be what it was," she said. "I think the economy tanking a couple of months ago had a lot more to do with it than the VP pick."
This was just hours after CNN had her talking to anchor Wolf Blitzer, who wanted to know whether she might run for Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens' seat should Stevens have to step down because of a conviction for corruption.
Maybe, she said, while noting that she wants to serve the people of Alaska the best way she can and "at this point it is as governor."
"Now if something shifted dramatically and if it were, if it were acknowledged up there that I could be put to better use for my state in the U.S. Senate, I would certainly consider that but that would take a special election and everything else," she said.
"I am not one to appoint myself or a member of my family to take the place of any vacancy."
WHAT NEXT?
What about Palin running for president in 2012, Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren wanted to know the other day.
Palin did not rule it out.
Sarah Palin: what's a feminist?
still can't get enough of Sarah Palin, the worst Veep pick by a Republican since George Bush Snr went through the phone book and stopped at Q for Quayle.
Well, she's not going away and has given another car crash of an interview, this time to Fox.
The best quote is: "sometimes, y'know, I consider myself too a feminist - whatever that means!"
Poor John McCain, who'll be staying away from Alaska I'll wager. He has said that Palin did not harm his campaign. She did, y'know, she, like, so did (as Palin might put it).
I can understand why he wants to be gallant but he is clearly struggling to face up to the scale of the miscalculation he made in putting her on the ticket.
Palin is not an agent of future conservative recovery; she is a vote loser because she mobilises part of the base while turning off those in the middle ground and independents. If you desire Republican revival, do not look in Sarah Palin's direction.
Well, she's not going away and has given another car crash of an interview, this time to Fox.
The best quote is: "sometimes, y'know, I consider myself too a feminist - whatever that means!"
Poor John McCain, who'll be staying away from Alaska I'll wager. He has said that Palin did not harm his campaign. She did, y'know, she, like, so did (as Palin might put it).
I can understand why he wants to be gallant but he is clearly struggling to face up to the scale of the miscalculation he made in putting her on the ticket.
Palin is not an agent of future conservative recovery; she is a vote loser because she mobilises part of the base while turning off those in the middle ground and independents. If you desire Republican revival, do not look in Sarah Palin's direction.
Americans split on Palin
Americans are still deeply divided about Sarah Palin, this year's Republican vice presidential nominee who is already making noises about running for president in 2012.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released today found that 49 percent have a favorable opinion of Palin, while 43 percent have an unfavorable opinion.
Her numbers have dropped slightly from before last week's election, when the favorable/unfavorable split was 51 percent to 41 percent among registered voters. Her favorability peaked at 57 percent, just after her national debut during the Republican convention.
Palin's running mate, meanwhile, is viewed more favorably since losing last week. John McCain gets a 61 percent-36 percent favorable split in the poll, compared to 56 percent to 41 percent in mid-October.
The new survey was done Nov. 6-9 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released today found that 49 percent have a favorable opinion of Palin, while 43 percent have an unfavorable opinion.
Her numbers have dropped slightly from before last week's election, when the favorable/unfavorable split was 51 percent to 41 percent among registered voters. Her favorability peaked at 57 percent, just after her national debut during the Republican convention.
Palin's running mate, meanwhile, is viewed more favorably since losing last week. John McCain gets a 61 percent-36 percent favorable split in the poll, compared to 56 percent to 41 percent in mid-October.
The new survey was done Nov. 6-9 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Free Sarah Palin: NOW she talks -- when it doesn't matter
So who gave the Biden pills to Sarah Palin? Now that it doesn't matter, the woman won't shut up. On Wednesday, she talked to CNN's Wolfie Blitzer -- you know, like she COULD HAVE DONE UP UNTIL ELECTION DAY.
Wolfatopolous brings up this very issue:
BLITZER: Do you look back and you say to yourself, I wish I would have done something differently? Is there anything -- you look back and say, you know, I think I could have done something differently that might have helped?
PALIN: I just wish that there had been more hours in the day, been able to speak to more Americans through the media. I would have --
BLITZER: We tried. We tried, God knows.
PALIN: Sorry, all right. I'm glad we're here today, Wolf.
She wished there were "more hours in the day?" Well, maybe if Palin had done fewer interviews with conservative outlets, and "spread the wealth" of her time with others who didn't agree with her, she could have found 20 more hours.
Since she's talking now, maybe someone will ask one of our questions. Plus, this one: Do you believe in the "end of days?" If so, how does this influence your decision-making?
But she's talking now because it helps Palin to talk about (and defend) Palin so that's why she's willing to cook for the "Today" show's Matt Lauer. She's got a career to protect. No? Then she should answer the question of WHY she didn't do other interviews before this.
Oh, and for those of you wondering the answer to this question, courtesy of CNN i-reporter Eric Olson of Savage, Minnesota:
BLITZER: "Gov. Palin, before the election you were speaking with James Dobson of "Focus on the Family" and you said that you were confident that God would do the right thing for America on Nov. 4th. Did God do the right thing for America?"
PALIN: I don't know if that was my specific quote. But I do believe that there is purpose in everything. And for me personally I put my life in God's hands and ask him to -- don't let me miss some open door that he has for me, and I'll travel through that. I think the same thing for our nation as we seek God's guidance, his wisdom, his favor and protection over our nation, that at the end of the day, that the right thing is done.
Wolfatopolous brings up this very issue:
BLITZER: Do you look back and you say to yourself, I wish I would have done something differently? Is there anything -- you look back and say, you know, I think I could have done something differently that might have helped?
PALIN: I just wish that there had been more hours in the day, been able to speak to more Americans through the media. I would have --
BLITZER: We tried. We tried, God knows.
PALIN: Sorry, all right. I'm glad we're here today, Wolf.
She wished there were "more hours in the day?" Well, maybe if Palin had done fewer interviews with conservative outlets, and "spread the wealth" of her time with others who didn't agree with her, she could have found 20 more hours.
Since she's talking now, maybe someone will ask one of our questions. Plus, this one: Do you believe in the "end of days?" If so, how does this influence your decision-making?
But she's talking now because it helps Palin to talk about (and defend) Palin so that's why she's willing to cook for the "Today" show's Matt Lauer. She's got a career to protect. No? Then she should answer the question of WHY she didn't do other interviews before this.
Oh, and for those of you wondering the answer to this question, courtesy of CNN i-reporter Eric Olson of Savage, Minnesota:
BLITZER: "Gov. Palin, before the election you were speaking with James Dobson of "Focus on the Family" and you said that you were confident that God would do the right thing for America on Nov. 4th. Did God do the right thing for America?"
PALIN: I don't know if that was my specific quote. But I do believe that there is purpose in everything. And for me personally I put my life in God's hands and ask him to -- don't let me miss some open door that he has for me, and I'll travel through that. I think the same thing for our nation as we seek God's guidance, his wisdom, his favor and protection over our nation, that at the end of the day, that the right thing is done.
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