Palin says Bush record led to GOP loss
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/POLITICS/11/05/palin.campaign.anatomy/art.palin.afp.gi.jpg caption="Palin told Alaska reporters the Republican ticket could not overcome the headwinds."](CNN) - Sarah Palin told local reporters in Alaska that unhappiness with the Bush administration’s Iraq war policy and spending record were responsible for the GOP ticket’s defeat this year.
“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?” Palin told the Anchorage Daily News and Alaska’s KTUU Channel 2.
“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. So people desiring change I think went as far from the administration that is presently seated as they could. It's amazing that we did as well as we did.”
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Palin returned to Alaska last week amid growing speculation about her political future. The Alaska governor is slated to attend the Republican Governors Association’s meeting in Miami this week.
When will politicans acknowledge that just maybe, their own records, words and actions are the reasons that they are not elected to office. Its interesting that she states ...“I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years...... sounds like she's pointing the finger at McCain (as being too much like Bush). Oh wait, is that "liberal" media taking her comments out of context again? Jeez ... talk about a turn coat.
Sarah Palin continues to blame everyone but herself... and her ticket. If McCain had come out with more concrete ideas, different than what is already in place, perhaps the outcome would have been different... but let's face it, she ultimately led to her own demise. Perhaps she should have educated herself about the issues instead of giving the same stump speech and attacking Barack Obama continuously.
Well, 'DUH'! Nothing like stating the obvious, Sarah. Please go away.
Nice team player, and good job taking responsibility. I imagine she learned all this on the basketball court.
Mrs. Palins comments are exactly correct.There is not a dimes worth of difference between the globalism and free wheel spending of the current Bush administration and the old school socialist democrats led by the likes of Ted Kennedy and company. The two groups just spent the money in different places.What a shame that Sarah Palin wasn't at the top of the GOP ticket.Hopefully she will not be discouraged from serving her nation in the future by the treatment she and her family were subjected to by the biased "mainstream" media.
Republicans have not been fiscally responsible for a long time. Sure, they talk the talk about being fiscally conservative, but Reagan/Bush tripled the national debt through budget deficits and W. Bush has done the same thing.
Once again Palin shows her lack of knowledge about basic facts. I still can't believe many conservatives want t her heading the Republican ticket in 2012.
Those are the only intelligent words that have come out of this woman's mouth.
George Bush did not work alone.....his policies were supported by the GOP. Go figure.
Man I wish this woman would just go away. Who really cares WHAT she has to say now?
Thanks John McCain for introducing us to Sarah Palin. Apparently, she never going home.
Caribou Barbie's 15 minutes are up.
You're NOT ready to be President.
And in four years you will NOT be ready to be President
Why is she still in the news? She is so over. Move on CNN.
Why are we still giving this woman the time of day. She lost and she is in denial that they lost because of John McCain's poor decision in picking her. Does she know Florida is a state? Is she bringing her entire family and expecting the taxt payers to pay for it yet again? She needs to do her job, take care of her baby which we never see her holding and be responsible for her actions. She wants to be on a ticket again so we can continue financing her clothes, jewelry and her husbands expensive suits. She should be ashamed of herself. Her baby needs her and her state needs her.
Don't kid yourself, Sarah. I was undecided, like a lot of Americans, until McCain foolishly named you running mate. You were ignorant of important matters of state. In view of his age, no one wanted a "quick learner" making the Presidency her on-the-job training–especially a "Maverick" who demonstrated she would rush forward without listening to experienced advisers.
Worse, McCain couldn't contol your many blunders. He couldn't control his campaign. He didn't control the dishonorable negativity. If he couldn't handle those things, how was he going to handle the country? McCain was an honorable man, and the Republican Party's and your desperate, negative, attempts to win lost him this election.
For once she said something I agree with. Beware Palin 2012.
Duh??
That's not what you were sayin a week ago!
You flip floppin imbecile!
Too bad she wasn't this bright during the campaign.
that's the smartest thing she said so far!!
Really? Palin JUST figured out that the reason people voted for Barrack Obama is because they were tired of Bush policies, and McCain agreed with bush for 90% of the time?
I am sure she will be taking her kids with her... probably to Disneyland. Of course, on the Alaskan tax payers budget! Would like to know to what charity she donated her campaign wardrobe! Oh, yeah... and when is the wedding for the happy couple??!!
But the two mavericks told us that they represented an even greater departure from the Bush administration than Obama himself! How people will lie to not admit the truth.
People love to hear about Sarah Palin because she is a train wreck waiting to happen ala Britney Spears. The only way she even has a slim prayer at the presidency in 2012 is to disapear from the face of the earth. Right now way too much of America thinks she is an idiot. If she disapears for three years so as to re-invent herself maybe people will give her a chance. Right now she comes across as being more suited for Saturday Night Live than presidential material.
Here we go again. Yet another issue that Palin is blind to. Wake up lady. YOU were a reason the McCain/Palin ticket lost.
Look forward to seeing you run in 2012 after Obama and the democrats ruin the country in 4 short years.