I really did a double-take on this delusional boast by the failed 2008 VP candidate: Sarah Palin Says She Would've Won in 2008 If She Had Been Top of Ticket. At a Q&A session with India Today Editor-in-Chief and Session Chairman Aroon Purie this is what she said when asked why she thought McCain/Palin lost in 2008:
"The media..." Palin said pointedly, and then self-consciously softened it with a laugh. Attempting to pretend she has not taken pot shots at Obama on foreign soil before (see Hong Kong), she strangled this out through gritted teeth, "Candidate Obama had a strong campaign. Though he was inexperienced, he was change." This is as nice as she can be, folks. Live it up. She had to get the dig in about him being "inexperienced." As if she were somehow...oh well.I don't know why she couldn't use his proper title, but Palin seems in many ways stuck back in 2008, constantly re-litigating her grievances and sure that if she just tells us that "candidate Obama" is inexperienced, we will believe her. It's as if she doesn't quite grasp that while she was doing reality TV shows, he's been in the White House.
Purie didn't buy this excuse and pushed her, "You could have been change."
Palin was quick to fire back with just a tad of that infamous venom, snapping, "I wasn't the top of the ticket!"