Palin blames Bush policies for GOP defeat

[devilgrrl]

Nov 10th, 2008 | WASILLA, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, amid speculation she'll run for president in four years, blamed Bush administration policies for the defeat last week of the GOP ticket and prayed she wouldn't miss "an open door" for her next political opportunity.

"I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door," Palin said in an interview with Fox News on Monday. "And if there is an open door in '12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door."

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"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. :eyes:

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Jessica Steele can't wait to see what Sarah Palin does next -- not with her political career, but with her hair.

"That's something I want to talk to her about: What's our vision for her hair?" says Steele, proprietor of the Beehive Beauty Shop and keeper of the governor's up-do since 2002. "I can't wait to see her and say, 'OK, I've got you alone for three hours. Just relax, and how are you, really?'" :crazy:

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While Palin remains popular, the reality of defeat is evident.

Bags of fan mail, as many as 400 letters a day, partially fill a room at her parent's house. But parents no longer meet Secret Service agents when they pick up their children at Cottonwood Creek Elementary, where Palin's youngest daughter, Piper, is a student. The reporters and camera crews are gone from the Palin home on Lake Lucille, once patrolled by Coast Guard boats. Now a thick sheet of ice covers the lake.

Four state troopers still guard the governor 24 hours a day, Heath said -- something Palin never had before.

And in a bit of familiarity, Heath said he brought a pot of moose chili to Palin's house this past weekend. :puke:

more: http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2008/11/10/D94CE5U80_palin/index.html

[That Is Quite Enough]

1. And then God was totally like, "Hey Sarah!" and I was like, "'Sup, dawg?" and God was all like...

[Trajan]

2. Hey Sarah ... I know why you lost ....

Because Republicans are stupid, and their policies are failures, and the people know it ...

And you are a republican ..... what does this tell you ?

Take your time .....

[Captain Hilts]

3. That's the truest thing she's said. nt

[dhpgetsit]

4. Ugh. Well i can't disagree with her on that point.

But McCain was a Loyal Bush Collaborator, and putting Palin on the ticket surely caused a lot of Cons to vote for Obama.

Believe what you like, Sarah. I still say you're an insult to American politics.

[ShenandoahAspen]

5. Hey Sarah the Idiot -- God didn't want you as VP NOW

so what makes you think he's going to want you for the top spot "12 or 4 years" from now? :eyes:

[dweller]

6. Sarah, it's 11:30pm 11/10/08

your 15 minutes of fame ended last tuesday 11/04/08.

getcha self back home now.
dp