In an interview with the wingnut freakshow Human Events, Sarah Palin said her biggest mistake during the campaign was not conducting enough media interviews. Because, obviously, those interviews that she did participate in were such raging successes that she needed more. Duh! How could we not see that?
“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,” she told Human Events. With such stellar rhetoric the only thing that could have saved her campaign was letting the American people hear more from her, of course.
She elaborated, “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.”
Translation: I would have done more interviews on Fox with conservative reporters who were sympathetic to my campaign so as not to look like an idiot. That way I would be gauranteed not to receive hard questions like “what newspapers do you read?” Seriously, that was hard. How am I supposed to tell America that I can’t read?
She goes on to criticize McCain staffers (probably the same ones who are blaming her for the monumental failure of the campaign) for mishandling the campaign.
“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. Now I have all the faith in the world in Sen. McCain and his family. But some of the folks around him I did not know, and so it was a kind of a risky thing for me to put my faith in the decisions they were making on my behalf.” “… they’re folks who have done this before. Of course, I haven’t done this on a national level before.”
But, of course, God makes everything better. (You know she can’t give an interview without invoking god.)
“But my reliance on seeking God’s direction in all that I do — that is good enough for me. And others who have a different worldview and different strategy on messaging and such, I would like to have the opportunity to prove to them that my gut instincts were going to be quite adequate.”
Palin also gushes that her hero and role model is Susan B. Anthony because “she was a pro-life feminist.” Which tells me that she really doesn’t know that much about Anthony. Sure, all the pro-life groups tout Anthony as one of their early leaders, but the truth is, while Anthony may have been against abortion (although this is not certain as many historians say the letter expressing these views was wrongly attributed to her), she was also against bearing boat loads of children (Hello Sarah!).
Case in point:
In her personal life Anthony was clear in her conviction that women were not preordained to motherhood, that sometimes a woman and her womb might go their separate ways. A devoted aunt, she claimed to appreciate her colleagues’ offspring, some of whom even felt warmly toward her. But she had little patience for maternity. At best she was the ever-helpful friend who asks if you realize what you are in for just as you have vomited your way through your first trimester. At worst she was a ruthless scold.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s pregnancies were Anthony’s despair: how was it possible, she wailed, “that for a moment’s pleasure to herself or her husband, she should thus increase the load of cares under which she already groans”? She was equally indulgent toward Antoinette Brown Blackwell, one of the movement’s most gifted orators: “Now, Nette, not another baby, is my peremptory command.” Over and over she needled Stanton, galled that the suffragette dream team had “all given yourselves over to baby making and left poor brainless me to do battle alone.”
That doesn’t sounds like she and Palin would be good friends to me. And really, how can you claim, in all seriousness, to idolize a woman who stood for progressive ideals and worked her whole life for women’s rights when you, yourself, don’t really support alot of women’s rights issues today?
So, Sarah, honey, keep on giving those rousing and successful interviews. Keep spouting incoherent gibberish. Keep using that eloquently stylistic syntax. Keep it up sweetie, it only provides fodder for my blog.
I hate this time of year because of the social events. Tonight is the office Christmas party which I am being pressured to attend. But, I don’t like wine or beer, which happen to be the only forms of alcohol they’re serving, and I don’t like half the people going, which means fun will be limited. I don’t like social gatherings, small talk, or crowds. I don’t like having to buy or prepare something for people who won’t appreciate it. And I don’t like having to pretend to enjoy myself when I would rather be somewhere else.
I want a “do-over” button for life. 
