That’s the only reason I can see that Palin would have suggested this - in order to pre-empt it from happening because then we could say that Obama is taking orders from the dread pirate Palin. Maybe she had a clue that they were setting Biden up for the fall and wanted to pre-empt it if possible.
Sarah Palin was very clever by openly suggesting that Obama replace Biden with Hillary on the Democrat ticket. “the strategists there in the Obama campaign have got to look at a diplomatic way of replacing Joe Biden on the ticket with Hillary. And I don’t want to throw out that suggestion and have them actually accept the suggestion because then an Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket would have a darn good chance of winning. But really, Joe Biden really drags down that ticket.”
The “Hillary replaces Biden” concept has been talked about on Conservative blogs for months. There is a huge Hillary Fan Club, and an Obama/Hillary ticket would be difficult to defeat. Bloggers have been expecting any day now to see the announcement that Biden is suddenly unable to run because of serious health issues, or whatever, and Obama names Hillary as the Democrat VP candidate.
But Sarah Palin headed the Dems off at the pass. Can you visualize the headlines?
“OBAMA TAKES PALIN’S ADVICE , REPLACES BIDEN WITH HILLARY FOR VP”
Really? The Dems admit to taking political advice from Sara Palin? Possible, yes, but not likely.
Very clever, Sarah, if you’re watching.