Wow. This is pretty stunning. Sarah Palin just threw McCain under the Straight Talk Express. Palin told ABC News that she is indeed already thinking about 2012:
Gov. Sarah Palin suggested that if the Republican ticket is defeated on Tuesday she expects to be a player in the next election four years from now, saying "I'm not doing this for naught."I've never heard of a candidate on a ticket publicly admitting they are thinking beyond Election Day IF THEY LOSE.
In an interview with ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas, the Republican vice-presidential nominee was asked about 2012, whether she was discouraged by the daily attacks on the campaign trail, and would instead pack it in and return to her home state of Alaska.
"I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we've taken, that would bring this whole & I'm not doing this for naught," Palin said.
CNN's Dana Bash got the reaction from a "senior McCain adviser" to whom she read Palin's quote. Bash reported, "I think it's fair to say that this person was speechless. There was a long pause and I just heard a 'huh' on the other end of the phone." Even Wolf seemed shocked that Palin would say anything besides she's only looking to Tuesday.
UPDATE: Just got the CNN video:
NOTE FROM JOHN: Well, the cat's out of the bag. All the reports about Palin being a rogue elephant, about Palin and McCain fighting behind the scenes, are now clearly true. Palin just stabbed John McCain in the back, and now she actually thinks she's presidential material. Someone needs to sit her down and explain the difference between being chosen to be a vice presidential candidate and actually having the qualifications to be vice president or president. I can call my goldfish a lion, that doesn't make it so.
