Palin hits back at critics, calls them cowards

Please put Palin to rest! She's thankfully back in Alaska where she belongs. No more coverage of this has-been VP candidate. Most of us don't care what she has to say anymore (we didn't care much before the election either!)

This is so yesterday's news. Really, who cares anymore. We have far more important work ahead. Let's move on.

what a dope--WOW

OK, isn't it time to leave the poor woman alone? Clearly, she is an intelligent person, you don't usually get to be governor if you're not. Let's just move on and hope that the right person will be leading our country. And if not there is always HILLARY in 2012!

Just an observation.

It's hard to imagine how Sarah Palin - nominee for the Vice Presidency of the Unites States, with Secret Service protection, a cadre of reporters following her every move, and whose picture was on TV almost every day - could have gone shopping anywhere without the Press, Secret Service or somebody else noticing it when it happened.

This whole story about her being a "shop-a-holic" doesn't make sense unless somebody in the Press or the Secret Service can confirm that it actually did happen.

Though I was and am an Obama supporter, I thought the Palin clothing thing was simply insignificant. Women are judged on appearance far more than men; witness the comments during the primaries on Hillary's appearance and clothing. Fair? Hardly.

And as for the sudden rush to blame Palin for the McCain implosion, that's just a bunch of small minds looking out for themselves. Last I looked, Palin did not appoint herself the VP candidate. If the McCain has anyone to blame, it has those that vetted her in the first place. She acquitted herself pretty well, under the circumstances.

can't we all just move along?

"That's cruel, It's mean-spirited. It's immature. It's unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away with it, taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news. It's not fair, and it's not right."

Defending herself against slanderous attacks... I wonder if she sees the irony in her statements?

i find it very hard to believe a woman who couldnt answer a single question with any substance beyond catch phrases. i hope shes thrown in a cold alaskan jail.

She 'insisted' she didn't ask for the wardrobe? As if the anonymous, backstabbing claim to the contrary amid a rash of other discredited accusations couldn't simply have been 'denied'? The Boston Globe is showing its bias again.

Sarah, Please go back to where you belong and stay there.
Better yet - if you want to run for president in 2012, I know a lot of Democrats who'd be happy to give you a few bucks and a rope.

Paln in 2012! Yeah!

John McCain may have lost the election, but what's important is that he has fulfilled his God-given duty to bring Sarah to the attention of our blessed nation and this troubled world. Sarah will be a major figure in the final war, she will run in 2012 and be our president through the end times. More than ever, this is the time to prepare for the return of Jesus Christ. She is a prophet and a leader. Bless us all.

McCain employed a pack of savage dogs to manage his campaign; when they couldn't find enough Democratic fresh meat, the pack just as eagerly turned upon their own kind!

I wonder how the election might have played-out, if McCain & Palin had been allowed to discuss issues, rather than being hard-wired to spout smear & sneer slogans whenever their strings were pulled?

Just go away, Sarah. Far, far away.

"... about the continent vs. the country when we talk about Africa"

What is she refering to when she speaks about Africa the continent, vs. Africa the country? It sure sounds like she thinks there is one of each- like Washington the city and Washington the state.

She is an idiot. I sure hope the Repugnicans are foolish enough to trot her out again in 2012. And bring the whole famliy of hillbillies along with you- there're a hoot. You betcha! ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Obama said he visited "all 57 states" and calls a reporter "sweetie", and gets a pass. Biden says the most important issue in the campaign is a three letter word and that's jobs, JOBS jobs and gets a pass. But, the media, as handmaidens for the Obama campaign, went out of their way to Bork Sarah Palin. Congrats main stream media. I think the Soviet Union had a more unbiased media.

Sarah Wish you ran our State of FLORIDA! As for the bandwagon jumpoff's you know they don't have a spine. Guess they will move to the middle or kinda left just to Kiss some ASS for there Job!
Thank you! For doing the best you can, They had a play and I will say it was not fair.
Energy, You hit it on the head.. I am self employed commercial Diver! Hey no work but I will be paying those tax's for all else. Hey if you need a good organized energy Guy let me know. Maybe Alaska is the last bastion. Bless you Sarah.......

"That's cruel, It's mean-spirited. It's immature. It's unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away with it, taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news. It's not fair, and it's not right."

She's kidding, right? It seems to me that Ms. Palin took PLENTY of comments out of context and tried to spread it on national news.

Clearly, Ms. Palin can dish it out, but not take it. I'm quite ready for her to go away.

Oooh, they all deserve each other. For her own sake I wish she'd just let it die.

I didn't support McCain and Palin (far from it...) but the personal insults and stories that are coming out now from the McCain camp do nothing but make the Republican aides look hateful and self-serving. I think Palin did was she was asked to do and, for the most part, she did it well. I didn't agree with any of her positions and I thought she was too green to be VP but I think she's being very unfairly targeted now. Give her the credit she's due. I don't know too many people who could have jumped into that campaign right before the Republican convention and have performed the way she did. Her speech at the convention and her debate performance were particularly skillful. I'm glad to hear she's back in Alaska and will be governing again from a more moderate position.

Dear Sarah:
Go away.
Sincerely,
Everybody.
p.s., we don't believe you.

GOV PALIN WAS & IS THE MOST REFRESHING CHARISMATIC

POLITICAL PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES. HER CHARISMA

DERIVES FROM HER OPENNESS AND CANDOR, NOT FROM HER

LOOKS.

I'm glad Sarah knows that Africa is a continent.

The Woman is a Class Act. I am so looking forward to her becoming seasoned in the next four years. She is the genuine article. Refreshing describes her to a tee.

Governor Palin.....go back to Alaska, get more experience and come back in, oh, say, 20 years when you are ready for the heat, just a little bit more knowledgeable and somewhat prepared for national exposure. Senator McCain did you a great injustice selecting you for a position for which you were ill prepared. The only concern about you was that you did not recoginize this and decline the offer to run. YOUR FAMILY and Alaska needs you for the time being.....To paraphase an old song....."Come back when you grow up, girl,You're still livin' in a DEMOCRAT world, Livin' ain't easy, POLITICS is twice as tough, So come back, baby, when you grow up"

who cares

You guys are truly shameless.
Can you just let it go. Enough with the Palin bashing. We get it. She is a conservative therefore she should be skewered to death. Oh yes and she is stupid, never accomplished anything....
Enough already.

Hey, Sarah, guess what? I could really care less.

You had your little time. Now, like the wicked witch of the west who mercifully melted away, it's best you return to the same pocket of irrelevance from whence you came. Just follow in the large, greasy, lunk-laden footsteps of "Joe, the plumber".

As I like to say when telemarketers ring, "Thanks for calling. Now go away".

WHO CARES???

She is not qualified to be vice president and McCain put the country at risk to pick her. He has a 50% chance of heart attack or stroke and she would have been a disgrace. Why did he not choose Lieberman or Powell, credible people? Her husband is part of a group to cecede from the United States and she spoke at one of their meetings and told them they were doing a great job. HUH???????????

Sarah...We love ya! Now go back to Alaska (the state not the country) and back to obscurity!

Can we forget about her already?

Without Sarah this would have been a landslide! She brought the base to vote.

Um. Pul-leez. Don't go away mad, just go away. And stay there.

I sure hope the Repugnicans trot this half-wit out again in 2012.

"That's cruel, It's mean-spirited."

This from someone who hunts animals from a helicopter for "sport"?

"It's immature."

Right. Sarah Palin's goin' 'n tellin' us what's mature. (Wink. Wink.)

"It's unprofessional and those guys are jerks"

Calling Obama a "terrorist" is professional, though- right? You betcha!

"It's not fair, and it's not right."

Torturing prisoners at Abu Grave, (in the very same way for which we ourselves prosecuted Japanese war criminals WWII!) is right though, isn't it? (Wink. Wink.)

Who cares?
Sarah, go home and keep watch on Russia! You may become relevant yet!

This lady is unbelievable. Simply unbelievable!

Cruel, mean-spirited, immature and unprofessional? Taking things out of context to get it on the national news? It's not fair, and it's not right?

Turnabout is fair play, Ms. Palin.

This woman is being persecuted by the moderate wing of the RNC. They are afraid that her born-again, divisive brand of politics will rip the the RNC in two. So we will continue to see Palin smears until she has zero credibility.

Some things never change. When they run out of other things to eat, the Republicans eat their own. Welcome to the shark tank, Sarah.

Truth be told, Palin got me to vote because I wasn't really in favor of the two candidates. McCain was the least Republican of the Republican, and I am not for the Democrats, and Biden was a pure idiot. But Palin was a breath of fresh air, and that's why I even bothered to vote in the first place. When something different comes along, everybody can see how different it is from the rest. But when you look back on it, sometimes (and this may or may not be one of those times ) yeah, maybe that would have worked. Trust me people, nothing changes with two Senators getting into the highest offices in the land. Washington is still Washington, and if you think things are going to change, I feel sorry for you.

But no apology from Governor Palin for calling President-elect Obama a "socialist," a "pal" of radicals, and "not one of us." People who live in glass houses....

"about the continent vs. the country when we talk about Africa there"...

Umm, didn't she just do it again there? That's the whole point, Sarah. There IS NO "Africa, the country". DOPE!

Yeah, never asked for more than a Dr. Pepper. Are her kids and First Dude gonna return their clothes and Vuitton luggage, too??

Sarah Palin is a joke. I hope we never have to hear from her again in regards to a job as important as the Vice President or (god forbid) President of this country. I am sorry John McCain allowed his advisors to dig her up but lets face it. The only good thing she did was bring Tina Fey back to Saturday Night Live. Good Riddance.

Are we still writing stories about her?

lying like a rug

I have never seen such a blitz of lies and unfounded allegations against a candidate earlier in my long life.
The media that did thid should be ashamed of themselves.

ummm. please go away. hopefully, your 15 minutes are over.

Seems the mean spirited attitude that pervaded the Republican Party in the campaign even applies within the party. That's not suprising seeing the level of anger and hate towards anyone who doesn't conform to their model that they've been seeding and feeding within their faithful since the Clinton Administration. They finally took it so far that it created public backlash, and now they're even doing it to each other. See Karma for more information.

BS nice try for a cover-up. Its obvious she was in over her head, and is now trying to throw others under the bus, so she can keep her (somewhat decent) reputation intact. 2012 is a long way off, and unless she reinvents herself, the same results will happen all over again

BS nice try for a cover-up. Its obvious she was in over her head, and is now trying to throw others under the bus, so she can keep her (somewhat decent) reputation intact. 2012 is a long way off, and unless she reinvents herself, the same results will happen all over again

BS nice try for a cover-up. Its obvious she was in over her head, and is now trying to throw others under the bus, so she can keep her (somewhat decent) reputation intact. 2012 is a long way off, and unless she reinvents herself, the same results will happen all over again

Just for the record, Palin determined to donate the $150,000 in clothes to charity only AFTER the press got wind of the story.

Wasilla Hillbillies...big surprise there, right?

Is what they said a lie or just not right that they said it???

Not her fault. It was McCain's. She just wasn't ready, won't ever be. Not smart enough to grasp enough ideas fast enough, not fast on her feet, no real language skills. 5 colleges to get a BA?

why is this an article in a newspaper? why? I feel dumber just having read this...

I tend to believe Palin on this issue. She's inexperienced, but she's not that dumb. This is the mean spirited RNC of Rove and Cheney. I can just see her getting sucked into that vortex. The "big name" Republicans seemed not to be really interested in the VP position. I think they knew McCain's chances of winning were slim at best. Palin, on the other hand, was expendable. When things didn't work out in the election, they could just trash her name and move on.

So, is she keeping the clothes? I thought they were supposed to be donated to charities.

Who cares. She can go disappear now and keep an eye on Russia for us up there. Major McCain mistake.

I respect and admire Sarah Palin so much and I have felt this way ever since McCain named her his VP. I think that she is an inspiring woman who has been criticized by the liberal media way too much and she is 100% right; it is unfair and cruel. I am so glad she chose to tell America this and hit back at her critics with class and dignity. She nor her family did not deserve all the garbage and accusations the media threw at them and I hope to see much more of Sarah Palin in the future. I know that people may bash her even more for hitting back at her critics, but I certainly hope they will refrain from this because she is one of the strongest, bravest politicians I have heard of in a while.

who cares about this idiot anymore? Drill this, baby.

Palin's response is unprofessional by saying "those guys are jerks." I cannot imagin someone who was a candidate for the Vice President in the United States, by far the strongest country in the world, can say something like this.

Her verbal expression shows that she does not even have the charisma to be a CEO of a company.

Just imagine if her hand was near the button...

Sweets for the sweet
What goes around comes around.
You get what you give
Karma's a b***8
Live by the sword, die by the sword.

and many others

You reap what you sow, smear campaigner! The scummiest campaign of all time turns on itself.

Ha ha ha, Palin. You were all set to say some nasty things about Obama, but I don't remember him whining on CNN about how it wasn't fair and calling you a "jerk." It's called life in the public eye, sweetie, get used to it. All kinds of sources will come out of the woodwork t insult you. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. We all see all of the lies spread all over the tabloids everyday, why did you think you'd be exempt, Sarah? Because you're "refreshing" and "folksy"?
Conduct yourself professionally, all you ever had to say is "Those reports are so ridiculous, I don't even want to glorify them with a response."
Me thinkst the lady doth protest too much!

Sarah was a mouthpiece for those smearmongers now it's turned on her and she almost cries on TV! They are scum. She is scum. The decent man won.

It was - and is - Palin's openly-flouted and childish love for herself - her extreme narcissism - that does for her; this attitude of "You all owe me, and I'm indescribably perfect". Even now, in defeat, she thinks it's all somebody else's fault. And in all seriousness she wants to "teach" the media to be "fairer" to her - i.e. more admiring of her: Her blind self-admiration (and concomitant slagging-off of others) hasn't stopped, on the contrary. It's typical that she, the one-time small-town sports journalist, now has the condescension/chutzpah to want to "teach" her famous journalistic colleagues worldwide how to do their jobs...Like all narcissists, she just can't process the fact that the world ISN'T all about her.

The destructiveness, the cruelty, the murderous rage she awakens in her supporters and which she blithely denies in herself , speak volumes as does her naively-grasping nature and her inability to self-correct, due to her half-conscious conviction that she IS already perfect. ("You will be like God", says the temptress-snake in "Genesis", "and tell good and evil apart". And it all ends in shame and in instant expulsion from Eden). In other words, there have been people arrogantly overreaching themselves since the dawn of recorded history. If you see the Bible (and the other holy books of other religions) as a set of cautionary tales against the human tendency towards self-centred grandiosity, Sarah Palin has rather a lot to learn, and not only about the factual world. But instead, like Bush, she pretends it's all somebody else's fault, as per usual.

She reminds me of Richard Nixon in all the most scary ways, right down to this "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more" type of approach to the supposed media bias. So thanks, John McCain, for foisting this politician on the American people. It will be your legacy, as I am certain we haven't heard the last of her.

It's pretty simple. The press wants to discredit Palin, so they reported this story from disgruntled employees. We've seen this before with Hillary Clinton. It's deja vu. The press is in bed with Obama, so all the lies told by him and his campaign were never reported. More evidence of Michael Malone's column on media bias toward Obama.

I like Palin. She has guts. She has firm values. She's better than the wishy-washy Obama. They are both ignorant, but Palin has more potential. We'll see if she can develop into a more seasoned politician. Meanwhile, we'll suffer through these 4 years, and hopefully American will realize that the pendulum has swung too far, and it's time to replace Obama with someone with a stronger personality, more grounded in his/her values and more knowledge and intelligence.

I pray that Saint Sarah never goes away, she sticks with it because she will tear the GOP in two. There will be civil war between her and the true GOP and that way we can get it over with. Saint Sarah will have the minor religous right in her pocket and the real republican party can rise and get back to our roots. Saint Sarah will get rid of the radical trash in our party and we can go back to be the party of Lincoln and Reagan, again

mk, you are so far to the right, that you are going to fall off the face of the earth! Your ignorance is showing!!

Boo hoo. All she's done since lose the election is whine about how unfair the whole thing was. Maybe she doesn't see the irony in the fact that the only talking about her clothes, hair, and make up anymore is HER.

She reeks of someone who can't let go of her 15 minutes. She should take a hint from her running mate and retreat graciously to doing the job she WAS elected to do.

#75, you are babbling. Read your own post and try to make sense of your sentences. You talk like Obama. Idiot!

Governor Palin is being such a hypocrit calling her critics "mean-spirited, unprofessional, immature and jerks"!!! When she was onstage during the campaign, wasn't she exhibiting the same qualities and also being a jerk by calling Senator Obama a terrorist and spreading vicious lies about him. It obviously seems that Sarah is not the "barracuda-pitbull she claims to be, just a middle age woman with a fragile ego. Perhaps that is the reason first dude needs to be around her 24/7 to protect the hockey mom. I hope the public has also noticed that her folksy talk disappeared after her appearance on SNL.

mk, I read #75...makes perfect sense to me. What doesn't make sense is calling Obama an idiot (Columbia, Harvard Law, University of Chicago instructor), while reserving your accolades for Palin (4 time dropout, 6 and a half years to finish a 4 year degree with a "C" average, winning the mayoral election on the issue of abortion). She had every line scripted for a reason - we all saw what happened in the interview where she didn't have time to have the facts spoon fed to her. She is, by every stretch of the word, a moron.

mk, I read #75...makes perfect sense to me. What doesn't make sense is calling Obama an idiot (Columbia, Harvard Law, University of Chicago instructor), while reserving your accolades for Palin (4 time dropout, 6 and a half years to finish a 4 year degree with a "C" average, winning the mayoral election on the issue of abortion). She had every line scripted for a reason - we all saw what happened in the interview where she didn't have time to have the facts spoon fed to her. She is, by every stretch of the word, a moron.

#79&80, you see accolades for Palin from my post? Wow -- I said "They are both ignorant" That's an accolade? You must be an idiot too! An Ivy League degree does not guarantee high intelligence, and a college dropout is not necessarily a moron. And if you read my post again, (assuming you are not an idiot), you'll find that I was calling #75 'Idiot', not Obama. Not that Obama wasn't behaving like an idiot on many occasions.