"If I cost John even one vote, I am sorry, because John McCain is the American hero"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Palin downplays plans, impact on McCain loss

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor November 5, 2008 03:12 PM

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/11/palin_downplays.html



Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin sought today to quash two pieces of speculation -- that she's hankering to run for president in four years and that she's to blame for John McCain's crushing defeat.

"Right now I cannot even imagine running for national office in 2012," she told CNN. "When I say that, of course, coming on the heels of an outcome that I did not anticipate and had not hoped for....2012 sounds so far off that can't even imagine what I'd be doing then."

The Alaska governor also chafed at suggestions that her growing unpopularity with voters, who were skeptical of her readiness to be vice president or president, played a role in Democrat Barack Obama's sweeping victory.

"I don't think anybody should give Sarah Palin that much credit...that my presence on the ticket would trump the economic crisis that America found itself in a couple of months ago and attribute John McCain's loss to me," she said. "Now having said that, if I cost John McCain even one vote, I am sorry about that because John McCain, I believe, is the American hero. I had believed it was his time."

[Haole Girl]

1. Proving yet again

..what a complete and utter 'moran' she is.

[yellowcanine]

2. Yeah well wait to see what happens if there is a special election for Ted Stevens' senate seat.

I will wager that Caribou Barbie will be right on that one.

[thunder rising]

3. Bye bye Sarah ... go marry off your daughter and wait for your son to come home.

[truedelphi]

12. I think I heard right here on DU that

Since the baby's father was her son, her daughter would have to marry her son!!

[Ian David]

4. I think what cost McCain the election was people like THIS guy...

... who convinced McCain that there were millions of morons that voted for a qualified woman, but would defect from the Democrats to vote for some idiotic chick.

Thank you, Perry Logan... you gave us back our country!

Uhm...

Could THAT be what he REALLY had in mind all along?


Noooo...





Couldn't be.


Could it?

[JuniperLea]

5. "an outcome that I did not anticipate"

Those damn Pubbies are dumb as dirt and thick as mud. They can't anticipate jack, ever! We knew, they couldn't anticipate.

What a moran she is. I'm so fucking happy that I'll not be hearing her shrill voice again!

[John Q. Citizen]

6. A flawed hero who exhibited poor judgment in his VP choice.

Everyone who is anyone who jumped ship said the same thing, Sarah. No one blames you. They blame John's rash decision.

[kysrsoze]

13. Too bad there are no other American Heroes for her to support

Ah well...

[tishaLA]

7. She talks about herself in the third person? Is she Michael Irvin?

or maybe Deion Sanders.

[steve2470]

8. I think she's a liar, I disregard anything she says nt

[Phx_Dem]

9. Yeah, whatever. Goodbye. And don't come back. n/t

[democrattotheend]

10. Is it crazy that I felt bad for her last night?

It looked like she was crying when McCain conceded and I felt bad...I guess I'm not good at being a sore winner...I always feel bad for the loser. Is that crazy?

[geekgrrl]

14. just remember that she kills innocent animals from helicopters. nt

[HockeyMom]

11. Which John McCain?

I was an Independent for 30 years. Years ago, I actually used to like the guy. I can say that the man who ran for President, was not the same man I remember from all those years ago.

His concession speech harked back to the man he used to be. It was almost as if he was a puppet in this election with his strings being pulled by the GOP and their Fundie base. The same people who picked Caribou Barbie for him.

They want to win elections in the future? They need to remake their party, as my lifelong Republican husband says, and get rid of the religious right.