Posted on 03/20/2011 9:21:53 PM PDT by Libloather
Palin: I could have brought change in '08
By Jordan Fabian - 03/19/11 12:52 PM ET
Republicans would have been more successful in the 2008 presidential elections if she was at the top of the ticket, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin suggested Saturday.
Speaking at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi, Palin was asked why the GOP ticket did not defeat then-Sen. Barack Obama (D). Palin said that Obama ran a strong campaign and effectively billed himself as a change candidate.
Pressed by India Today editor Aroon Purie that she also represented change, Palin replied, "I wasn't at the top of the ticket, remember?"
The 2008 vice presidential nominee said she was not claiming she should have been the nominee over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), but her comments provide a glimpse of her potential appeal to voters should she choose to run for the nomination in 2012.
Palin reiterated that she has not yet decided is she will run.
"I don't think that there needs to be a rush still to get out there as a declared candidate," she said.
When asked about the greatest lessons she learned from 2008, Palin did not mention the friction between McCain's camp and hers. Instead she said the experience informed her public relations strategy.
"One thing I learned is that you cannot trust the mainstream media to accurately report on [your record and accomplishments]," she said. "You have to have the boldness, the courage to set the record straight yourself."
She even accused Republicans of not defending their records vigorously enough.
"Too often, Republicans have the fighting instinct of sheep sometimes," she said. When it comes to correcting the record, "I will put my foot down."
Rebutting a criticism often used against her, Palin said, "It's not victimization, I'm not playing the victim card."
Palin also touted her role as a key figure in the Tea Party movement, saying that it helps enforce accountability amongst politicians on both sides of the aisle.
"It's going to grow, it's going to be more influential and it's going to hold our politicians accountable," she said.
Palin even compared the Tea Party movement to the pro-democratic uprisings that have sprouted up across the Middle East.
The Tea Party is "all about empowerment of everyday, independent patriots ... to change the balance of power," she said. "The changing balance of power throughout the world today is driven by empowerment of the individual ... That's what we are seeing throughout the world today."
Good luck with that.
If you think I'm pissant you're just ignorant.
And your analysis above tends to reinforce that. You obviously know very little about the record and the stances of your own candidate, and easily make ungrounded assumptions.
What bothered me was the way he rolled over for Obama in the debates.
What? If you read FR after the debates it clearly states that McCain won every debate. FREEPERS thought that McCain was wonderful during the debates. It was not until after he lost that revisionist history started.
She had zero chance of being at the top of the ticket in 2008.
Stop trying to twist it.
No, you're just not trying hard enough.
And your analysis above tends to reinforce that. You obviously know very little about the record and the stances of your own candidate, and easily make ungrounded assumptions.
"Ungrounded assumptions" are exactly what you are making! And it is YOU who knows very little about Palin, and are showing your ignorance.
There’s nothing to “twist.” It’s her own letter with her own signature as Governor.
I don’t know any real conservatives who support the Law of the Sea Treaty. For the first time, it would give the UN taxing authority, in addition to control over a majority of the Earth’s surface, and the resources that go with that.
There's plenty to twist. You're assuming that because Palin wants one part of the treaty (mineral rights adjudication), she wants the US to bow down before the UN. It just isn't so. Why is it that only conservatives like you who virulently oppose Palin are pushing this point of view?
You’re either for the treaty or you’re not. She is, no matter how you dance around it or try to justify it.
I don't believe it. This is just a diversion. I am no expert in international law, but I suspect there are freepers that are. I am going to raise the issue and see what we learn.
I find your tagline to be highly ironic, considering the fact that, like Gerald R. Ford, Ron Paul, and John McCain, Mrs. Palin thinks that states should decide the abortion question. Implicit in her position is an assumption that states accord rights. There's no getting around it.
Sarah Palin on World News with Charles Gibson
September 12, 2008
CHARLES GIBSON: In the time I have left, I want to talk about some social issues.
SARAH PALIN: OK.
GIBSON: Roe V Wade. You think it should be reversed?
PALIN: I think it should, and I think that states should be able to decide that issue.
Worth repeating........
*Heading offline to laugh*
Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Adviser Randy Scheunemann Consults For George Soros
Thanks . Saved a lot of us the trouble.
October 2008
[Questioner] Governor, let me ask you about immigration. How many undocumented immigrants are there in Alaska?
[Palin] I don't know, I don't know. That's a good question.
[Questioner] As governor, how do you deal with them? Do you think they all should be deported?
[Palin] There is no way that in the US we would round up every illegal immigrant -there are about 12 million of the illegal immigrants- not only economically is that just an impossibility but that's not a humane way anyway to deal with the issue that we face with illegal immigration.
[Questioner] Do you then favor an amnesty for the 12 or 13 million undocumented immigrants?
[Palin] No, I do not. I do not. Not total amnesty. You know, people have got to follow the rules. They've got to follow the bar, and we have got to make sure that there is equal opportunity and those who are here legally should be first in line for services being provided and those opportunities that this great country provides.
[Questioner] To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants? [Palin] I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.
Another in the persistent series of continuing non-informative articles about SP that passes for news via most of the media these days. The author with a feminine first name ho-hums her way through her incorrect characterization of SP’s India speech and the following Q&A which Palin fielded without error.
Are “libel” and “slander” now meaningless legal terms, unenforceable and without redress just because a private citizen is famous?
It was a pretty pathetic defense, actually.
December 2009
Lars Larson radio talk show
LARS: The amnesty proposal that was defeated in Congress — in your view, was that amnesty for illegals and would you back amnesty for a path to citizenship, as the current president calls it?
SARAH PALIN: No, I’m not for amnesty. Let’s ratchet this down quite simply to remember what we’re referring to. Illegal aliens are called “illegal” for a reason. We need to secure our borders and I am not for amnesty.
And there are humane ways to deal with the 11-13 million illegal aliens who are in our country right now, but if they’re not going to follow the rules, they need to get out.
Only to someone who wants it to be.
EV, this is so stupid and pissant like, you embarrass yourself. Every one of her statements since the VP campaign has been pro border control, she has said the invasion must stop and the first thing that should be done is to control the border every with every resource we have. She has said it repeatedly, but you and your "fact based" understanding can't seem to understand that fact.
Now why is that? Maybe because you are pimping another party and another candidate?
EV, you're not interested in the truth, you're interested in pimping your party.
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