So Sarah Palin did an interview with the conservative website Human Events, who named her their "Conservative of The Year" (That's how bad a year it was for conservatives) and in it she said her biggest regret was not doing more interviews. You know, interviews: those things where she said she reads all the magazines, and is a foreign policy expert because Alaska is close to Russia. The things Tina Fey made fun of. Yep, problem #1 was that she wasn't allowed to do enough of those:
The biggest mistake made was that I could have called more shots on this: the opportunities that were not seized to speak to more Americans via media. I was not allowed to do very many interviews, and the interviews that I did were not necessarily those I would have chosen. But I was so thankful to have the opportunity to run with John McCain that I was not going to argue with the strategy decisions that some of his people were making regarding the media contacts.
But if I would have been in charge, I would have wanted to speak to more reporters because that’s how you get your message out to the electorate... I was in a campaign in which I did not know the people individually running the campaign. So I had to put my life, my career, my family, and my reputation in their hands. That’s kind of a scary thing to do when you don’t know the people you are working with.
Wow. "Wasn't allowed"? You were going to possibly take over as POTUS for a 72-year-old guy with face cancer and you weren't "allowed" to do interviews? And then the interviews you were "allowed" to do were the wrong interviews? Because Katie Couric asked about your foreign policy credentials? How about that interview you chose to do? You know, the one with the guy slaughtering turkeys?
And your life and reputation were in "their hands?" How about your hands? You don't see Maverick McCain or Hilldog placing all the blame on their handlers. You were qualified to be Vice President but you weren't qualified to make decisions about interviews? Oh, sorry, you weren't qualified to be Vice President.
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