Sarah Palin Not Allowed to Speak Election Night 2008, Book Says

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The Associated Press reports that in Sarah Palin's new memoir, Going Rogue, the former Alaska Gov. confirms that she had wanted to speak on election night 2008, but was denied the chance. Overall, Palin believes says she was kept "bottled up" from reporters during the campaign.

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SocialistBetty's picture

I guess I just don't see how anyone can say Palin was a legitimate candidate for VP after everything she said.

.....too, after everything she couldn't say because she had no flippin clue.

How can people - like the verified expert on nothing Suzanne Venker from this very site - say she was great for this country? I just don't get it.

tek's picture

I voted against Palin.

Submariner's picture

"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008

"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008

"Ohh, good, thank you, yes." --Sarah Palin, after a notorious Canadian prank caller complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler's "Nailin Paylin," Nov. 1, 2008

"Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008

"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008

"[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008

"They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008

bug's picture

I don't know what McCain was thinking when he took her as his running mate. Unless he felt this "little Lady" was the answer to Hilary Clinton. I took as an insult to intelligent women everywhere. Every time she spoke I was left there thinking WHAT???!!!??
No wonder they kept her bottled up,she was embarassing to herself and McCain.

MrBook's picture

When she was first announced as the VP candidate I didn't see anything wrong with her... she seemed fairly reasonable.

Then she started giving interviews... and I had a very "Oh, that's what you were talking about!" moment.

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