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Sarah Palin: I Gave Christine O’Donnell’s Campaign ‘The Old College Try’

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Sarah Palin was a (in person!) guest on Fox News Sunday today, something many of you are likely aware of since she devoted some of the segment to repeating her “corrupt bastards” remark that’s been making all the headlines this morning.

However in the lengthy-ish segment she also weighed in on a number of other issues including whether she thinks a GOP majority should compromise on policy (no) and what it means that two of her candidates of choice (O’Donnell, Miller) are sinking in the polls. Said Chris Wallace (after being “hurry up’d” by Palin) : “Haven’t some of your Tea Party candidates shown they are not ready for prime time?”

On her support of Christine O’Donnell: When given a choice why in the world would I have supported the Liberal, the rhino, the pro Cap ‘n Tax, wishy washy on Obamacare [Mike Castle]. If given the choice of course I am going to support the conservative in that. And who was going to guarantee that Castle was going to win anyway…it’s a blue state. So given the choice, yeah, give it the old college try and allow the conservative in the race to have the message, the voice heard, and that’s what my endorsement allowed a little bit of a boost at least to allow some people to pay attention to what she was saying.

On Joe Miller: “The thing’s this fellow has had to put with against the GOP machine and the Democrats and the Liberal media in Alaska it’s not wonder that the numbers are tightening in that race.”

Cue: “Corrupt bastards.” Interestingly when Wallace pressed Palin on whether the “local reporters in Alaska conspired with the Murkowski campaign” on the tapes Palin backed down on directly linking the two.

Palin also says that she doesn’t “need to run for office” and that she “loves the freedom that I have” and that she would weigh that freedom against the constraints she would have as a candidate. For his part Wallace (doing his best Bill O’Reilly) thinks she is making too much money and having too much fun to run.

As for Karl Rove‘s assertion the other day that Palin’s Discovery ‘reality’ show (it’s not actually a reality show) might not jibe with the gravity of the Oval Office Palin rightly (and amusingly) points out that Ronald Reagan was an actor who boasted ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’ to his credits so perhaps Rove might better direct his criticism elsewhere. Snap! Watch the full interview below.

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  • Thelonious Funk

    She’s so smart.

  • fallenchicken

    Sarah Palin will be the first president to quit halfway through her term to go on a book tour.

  • sarainitaly

    I thought all of her answers were great – especially about endorsing underdog, true conservatives, and who’s to say if Castle would even have won. She did what she felt was right, not the “sure thing”. I like that.

    Also loved her answer about Reagan – so true!

    Obama wasn’t ready for prime time either – the difference is the media treatment. One is propped up, the others, smeared and ridiculed relentlessly.

  • NORBIT

    HILLARY WHO?

  • DonnaK

    Palin loves to blame everything on someone else. My description of her is the same one that Joy Behar used for Sharron Angle, I see Angle and Palin as good girlfriends.!! Can you imagine that paranoid conversation?

  • CAconservative

    I heard a female Republican politician on TV bemoaning the fact that Republican screwed up when they were in power and that we shouldn’t hold that against them because, “we get it, we screwed up and we won’t do that again”. No, you Republican twit, you made the conscious decision to run amok with our money and now your asking us to forgive you and allow you the chance to shaft us again?! I, along with the Tea-Party are saying, you only get one chance, you screw up, your ass is GONE?!! And that applies to the Democrats as well!

  • http://twitter.com/CRZ CRZ

    It may be telling that Glynnis hears “rhino” instead of “RINO.”

  • NORBIT

    sarainitaly said:
    I thought all of her answers were great – especially about endorsing underdog, true conservatives, and who’s to say if Castle would even have won. She did what she felt was right, not the “sure thing”. I like that. Also loved her answer about Reagan – so true! Obama wasn’t ready for prime time either – the difference is the media treatment. One is propped up, the others, smeared and ridiculed relentlessly.

    I’ve always said not to focus too much on the party or candidate, that it is the Corrupt Mainstream Media that attempts to misrepresent the facts and manipulate, not inform, public opinion.

    They’re being exposed for their duplicity now over and over again thanks to FOX, the net & talk radio!

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    From what I recall Sarah you gave many colleges the “old try”.

  • the real john t

    “and that’s what my endorsement allowed a little bit of a boost at least to allow some people to pay attention to what she was saying.”

    Yeah it did, they started listening for the comedy. They knew if you endorsed her she’d be saying dumb shit things like you do.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dona-Barone/1060506711 Dona Barone

    OHHHHH, $he gave it the “COLLEGE” try…not your strong suit, $arah.

    Maybe $arah can learn something from Christine, how about “I am not an IDIOT, I am YOU”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Jackie/100000824834645 Jeff Jackie

    Um, Glynnis. It’s not “rhino” as in the animal. It’s an acronym. RINO (Republican In Name Only).

    Helps to get things right when you’re trying to mock someone else.

  • notsofast

    “When given a choice why in the world would I have supported the Liberal, the rhino, ”

    Your ignorance is staggering.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    Super sensational Sarah Palin was smooth as silk in this intricate interview. Her answers were astute, articulate, assured, adroit, and delivered with adorable aplomb. She supports the right candidates for the best of reasons. She is regal, ravishing, refulgent.

  • Arkansas Steve

    WOW, I watched all four Sunday morning shows. Thanks for the DVR.

    By far the most impressive, perhaps the ONLY impressive, thing I saw this morning was: Ta Da: Chris Wallace’s interview with Sarah Palin. This woman has grown incredibly since she was introduced two years ago. She spoke better than anyone else; more clearly, more logically, more passionately, more intelligently.
    Anyone who hasn’t seen her entire interview with Chris should watch it, beginning to end.

    My grades on the morning shows:

    ABC This Week = C- (That’s as good as you can do with Donna Brazille & Arianna Huffington)
    NBC Meet the Press = C+ (Dull, boring, nothing bad, nothing good either)
    CBS Bob Schieffer = B- (Good closing about BCS football, boring, Bob’s just waiting to retire, you can tell)
    FOX News Sunday = A (Sarah Palin would have clobbered Hillary or Barack. She was passionate. She totally controlled Chris Wallace. Her voice was strong, not too high pitched. Democratic guest was pretty stupid, not FOX’s fault. He was there to “deny the obvious”. I think Chris Wallace tries too hard to confront Republican guests because his network is not a liberals only house of words. In other words, he doesn’t want to give Republicans an easy ride in spite of the fact that the “alphabet” networks DO WANT to give Democrats an easy ride.

  • Frankly My Dear

    Why is what Sarah Palin saying a headline? She is a private citizen, former/failed governor, author of a ghost written book and tv personality. Alaska has a population of under 1 million where as California has a population of over 35 million people, when was the last time anyone cared what Gray Davis thought?

  • The Real Royal King

    sarainitaly said:
    I thought all of her answers were great – especially about endorsing underdog, true conservatives, and who’s to say if Castle would even have won. She did what she felt was right, not the “sure thing”. I like that. Also loved her answer about Reagan – so true! Obama wasn’t ready for prime time either – the difference is the media treatment. One is propped up, the others, smeared and ridiculed relentlessly.

    She did whatever would bring her the most attention and nothing else. Soggy pasta has more principle than this woman.

  • ModerateMan

    How does someone who covers politics for a living not know what a “RINO” is? Just how ignorant of an entire half of the political spectrum do you have to be to not know this? Incredible.

  • puck30

    Speaking of O’Donnell, what was Barry doing in Delaware over the weekend if that race is in the bag for Coons?
    I know, maybe they have nice golf courses.

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    Chis Wallace asks Governor Palin if she thought her support for Tea Party candidates was wasted because it appears they don’t stand a chance of winning their election. Sarah Palin made clear, she is giving her all for candidates who run on the Tea Party platform.Why vote for a Republican who, as Obama keeps on saying, got us into this mess in the first place. What Obama doesn’t realize, sure it was Republican majority that oversaw this mess, but it is the Obama administration, Pelosi-Reid Congress who is making things worse despite all their promises of hope and change. What most people, Republican and Democrat Eashington insiders don’t realize, the Tea Party is the anti-Washinton establishment movement. The Washington establishment is distressed because the Tea Party has woken up the voters to the establishment’s plan centralize plan to control Americans by feeding states carrots to guarantee the state’s servitude. The Tea Party is not about party politics, it’s about ideas and feel the United States can’t go on with business as usual.

    Glynnis MacNichol is focusing on Palin’s “corrupt bastards” line in hopes to generate a scandal on the same level as Joy Behar’s “bitch” comment. The big difference Behar’s comment was pure vitriol and Pali’s was not without reason. Listening to the phone tape of KTVA staffers, it was clear they would like find a person at a Joe Miller rally with a shaky backround. Behar was in a tizzy because the Angle ad showed actual illegal aliens in gang attire. It falls into the Liberal narrative being against criminal aliens is racist. Palin made the point the Alaska media goes after Conservatives with a vegeance and gives the establishment politicians a pass. The media in Alaska used the dozen or more ethics complaints against Palin brought on by Democrats to relentlessly bash her and put her and her family on a financial brink.

    Palin challenge Rove’s statement of her being in a “reality” show is beneath a person running for President. Palin did explain the eight spisodes she did for TLC is basically a PSA on what Alaska has to offer to the United STates. What about an elected President showing up on comedy/satire show to prove he is hip to the younger generation. What will Obama do during his re-election campaign, join a hip-hop dance crew?

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    VRWC Destruction Machine said:
    Palin did explain the eight spisodes she did for TLC is basically a PSA on what Alaska has to offer to the United STates.

    Then why is she in it “falling up a hill” and riding around in a boat getting panicky when it gets stuck near some grizzlies.
    Couldn’t she have just narrated it?

    The show is obviously about Sarah Palin, not Alaska. Alaska is just the ‘challenge’ for her to win the immunity idol. lolol

  • Heatshield

    So, what did she say that isn’t true?

  • The Real Royal King

    There are so many colleges among these two women, that must have been a huge try. Unless, of course, it was one of the several colleges Randi the Witch lied about attending.

  • nutsofast

    The Real Royal King said:
    There are so many colleges among these two women

    And yet the crap that falls out of their mouths

  • Corrupt Bastard

    Sorry I only made it 2 and a half minutes. I cant stand hearing her voice, I dont know what it is if it is the pitch or the whine or what but whenever I hear it it reminds me that we evolve from apes. Thanks for that Sarah.

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  • Michael_T

    If I was a wealthy Republican, NRA member or a a conservative Christian I would probably buy what she’s selling – platitudes et al.

    But if I was a middle class American it would be a real stretch to make the case that Ms. Palin’s policies would be more beneficial than what the democrats put forward.

  • The Real Royal King

    Michael_T said:
    If I was a wealthy Republican, NRA member or a a conservative Christian I would probably buy what she’s selling – platitudes et al.

    But if I was a middle class American it would be a real stretch to make the case that Ms. Palin’s policies would be more beneficial than what the democrats put forward.

    We are going to see a concerted campaign by the Republicans to marginalize and isolate the Drop Out Governor beginning almost at once. There is great fear among party regulars than she is going to push the party out of the mainstream and into the radical fringe, much as happened with McGovern and the Democrats. McGovern was, of course, intelligent and articulate and deeply patriotic. Still, he was perceived as a fringist. The Drop Out Governor has none of the positive qualities of McGovern, albeit trumping him on the charisma angle in a brassy, coarse sort of way which attracts many and repels as many. I think the task for the Republicans is daunting. I don’t know how you go about controlling someone who has no discipline, no personal accountability and sees herself as a latter day Moses whilst others see her as a reincarnation of Wrong Way Goldfarb.

  • Nachi

    Now what would stupid Sarah know about “college”??? Duh.

  • Truth

    She a typical politician saying exactly what people wanted to hear, but nothing of any substance. These are idealistic opinions, but to apply them in the real world they will die on the vine. Either she does not understand the severity of the issue or she’s grandstanding. If she truly loved Alaska as she claims she would have remained governor and not resigned. She is in it for Sarah and if anyone does not believe it, I have an iceberg in Fairbanks I would like to sell you.

  • timcajun

    You mean Mama Bear didn’t deliver the goods!

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