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| Sarah Palin says anonymous critics in Republican camp are jerks |
| 2008-11-07 |
| SARAH Palin has hit back at "diva" claims and says she's being unfairly attacked by "jerks". The Alaskan governor went on the attack after anonymous slurs from the Republican camp in the wake of Barack Obama's US election victory. Mrs Palin, who was often derided in her role as John McCain's running mate, called her critics cowards, the Associated Press reports. "I never asked for anything more than a Diet Dr Pepper once in a while," she was quoted as saying. Since the election result Mrs Palin has faced fresh criticism over her designer wardrobe for the campaign and ridicule of her grasp of foreign affairs. But today she said: "Those are the RNC's (Republican National Committee) clothes. They're not my clothes. I never forced anybody to buy anything." She also responded to widely-reported claims from Republican campaign sources that she did not know Africa was a continent and was clueless on the signatories to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). "I consider it cowardly" she said of the anonymous attacks. "If there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about NAFTA, and about the continent vs the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context," she said. "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." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 I'll be first to say it. He fixed Iraq. If he can fix Afghanistan, Petraeus 2012. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2008-11-07 23:10 |
| #4 #2 Besoeker, Not DNC but RNC. I'd wager they are former/future operatives of other GOP campaigns that got folded into McCain '08 but are now looking to promote, for example Huckabee, or some other in '12. It is cowardly and Clintonesque. |
| Posted by: JDB 2008-11-07 22:43 |
| #3 Correct in everything she says, but the response sounds weak and a little petulant. She's got a great sense of humor, and she should have structured her comments so that she, and everyone else, could laugh at her accusers. That's the best way to get people to leave the issue alone. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-11-07 21:33 |
| #2 Anonymous attacks? Could this be the opening (anonymous) DNC salvo of the 2012 election. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-11-07 20:51 |
| #1 agreed. Ass-covering losers and hangers-on |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-11-07 20:49 |