The prank Palin call was actually scheduled days ahead

[Contrary1]

:rofl: What an idiot. They will need a bigger Straight Talk Express bus to accommodate all those being thrown under it.

"PHOENIX - As a top adviser in Senator John McCain’s now-imploded campaign tells the story, it was bad enough that Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska unwittingly scheduled, and then took, a prank telephone call from a Canadian comedian posing as the president of France. Far worse, the adviser said, she failed to inform her ticketmate about her rogue diplomacy.

As a senior adviser in the Palin campaign tells the story, the charge is absurd. The call had been on Ms. Palin’s schedule for three days and she should not have been faulted if the McCain campaign was too clueless to notice.

Whatever the truth, one thing is certain. Ms. Palin, who laughingly told the prankster that she could be president “maybe in eight years,” was the catalyst for a civil war between her campaign and Mr. McCain’s that raged from mid-September up until moments before Mr. McCain’s concession speech on Tuesday night. By then, Ms. Palin was in only infrequent contact with Mr. McCain, top advisers said..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27568012/

[baldguy]

1. Palin in 2012! Palin in 2012! Palin in 2012!

PUHLEEEEESE nominate her! Please! Please! Please! Please!

[dorkulon]

9. I agree, she wouldn't stand a chance.

Only "the base" likes her, and that's not enough to elect anyone.

[WiMu]

2. If I am Howard Dean

I am up in Alaska today setting up office and finding the person to represent the Democratic ticket in the next election for Governor of Alaska. What better way to derail any hope of her running in 2012 then her going down in defeat for re-election. There is just too much dirt we know about her now. She is easy pickings.

[Ms. Toad]

3. That was publicized by the pranksters

the day the prank was released. They had been working on scheduling it for 5 days, apparently (don't know whether it took to to schedule, or whether the advance notice was actually 8 days - the 5 of work + three more once it made her calendar).

[Stinky The Clown]

4. That **totally** tracks with what the two Montreal callers say happened.

I completely believe this is the truth.

[Swede]

5. The prankser said Palin is only the second person they had to tell they were being pranked.

The other was Britney Spears. All the others caught on rather quickly.

[shadowknows69]

10. You could tell, it was like they pretty much ran out of material

And had to tell her it was a prank just to get her off the line lol.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. How else, realistically, would they have gotten her number?

Thank God for Palin saboteurs.

[noel711]

7. Unless she was 'in' on the prank...

After all, look at all the great publicity she got
from Tina Fey. If comedy brings attention, then
being 'in' on being punked sounds up her alley.

Doesn't take much thought to get publicity...

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. lol... they had days to figure out it was a prank.