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“It’s Not on My Radar Screen,” Already She Is Starting the Lies

She dogs people in the Republican Party yet she is strategizing heavily to make sure her number stays up. It may have been a savvy move by Palin to agree to an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Sarah Palin says that when she got a surprise phone call from the McCain campaign one August afternoon, asking whether she’d like to be on the Republican presidential ticket, the then-Alaska governor says she didn’t doubt for a moment she was ready for the challenge. How arrogant can one be? It’s the second most powerful position in the world and her reply just shows that she has no sense of reality.

“When I got the call, it was not such a shocking call to me,” Palin told talk-show host Oprah Winfrey in a highly anticipated interview that aired Monday. “I felt quite confident in my abilities and my executive experience and I knew that this is an executive administrative job. I was happy to get in there and contribute.”

Nor was Palin deterred by the fact she had five kids at home, including an infant with special needs.

“It never occurred to me that I couldn’t do the job because of children,” she said. “My children are my strength. … They allow me to be grounded.” Naturally being the Vice President of the United States she would have Nannies at her disposal but no one would ever question a man the same question of his ability to do the job if he had five children.

But what did shock Palin was just how much the campaign knew about her and her family before she even formally met with Sen. John McCain to discuss the job. Contrary to what was reported in the media, Palin said, she was extensively vetted, and the campaign knew exactly “who they were getting.” Are you kidding, of course she was vetted!!! They knew everything from soup to nuts as any candidate would. No one with a brain would put themselves into a position where they would be embarrassed in the middle of a campaign. Of course this time it didn’t work.

“After this vetting and the hours of discussion about the background, my record, my family, what I stand for … I thought after all that I better confess it now, the one skeleton is in my closet,” Palin said. “I did get a D 22 years ago in a college course. And I thought that was going to be the extent of the controversy in Sarah Palin’s life.”

One year later, Palin has seen more than her fair share of controversies but has emerged as one of the hottest Republican stars and is among the early leaders for the 2012 presidential nomination.

Her session with Oprah came a day before her already-bestseller “Going Rogue: An American Life” will hit bookstores and Palin will hit the road on a tour of some of America’s most conservative corners.

The book and concurrent publicity blitz have all the trappings of an early salvo in the upcoming race for the White House, but Palin said 2012 isn’t on her radar screen. That’s such bull poop.

“I am dealing with so many issues that are important … and what I am finding, clearer and clearer every day, what I am seeing is that you don’t need a title to make a difference.” More bull poop.

In the wide-ranging interview, few subjects were left untouched, including Palin’s early and frequent clashes with the senior ranks of the McCain campaign. Everyone in the world knows she is a rookie but she hasn’t figured that out yet.

My favorite of all was her resignation as Governor of Alaska. “I resigned as governor of Alaska because I wasn’t going to run for a second term, and I was heading into a lame duck term,” Palin said of that decision, which shocked political observers.

“We came back [from the campaign] to a new normal in Alaska. Everything had so changed in my administration,” Palin continued. “There were so many opposition researchers up there in Alaska that were sent, probably, by the Obama camp. … It was a point where my state of Alaska was being hampered by my presence there.” Even more Bull Poop.

I’ve personally had enough of Sarah Palin and the stories we are subjected to from the talking heads on CNN and Fox. We as a nation are screaming UNCLE! We have had enough. I am a Republican, for the record and if she is the nominee in 2012 maybe the new 2012 movie scenario isn’t that far off. What is next? Bristol does a spread on Playboy?

The best quote I have read to date about her original lie is “She’s not retreating; she’s reloading.” When she states that 2012 isn’t on her radar, she follows with this quote from her dad which clearly indicates that she is prepping heavily.

Chatatya lataa… Ayshah