The most telling thing about this whole Paul Reveere thing is that she steadfastly refuses to believe or admit she made a mistake. She could have laughed it off with a “It was long day, that was a silly answer, oh well. . . .” and no one would really care.
But, to defend her error and say that she knows her history reveals what I have heard for quite awhile: She is never wrong. Ever. Now don’t you want THAT in a leader?
In addiiton, calling it a “gotcha question” (Q: “What have you seen here today and what will you take home with you?”) just again shows that she is a pure idiot.
Good riddance, Sarah, I think your trip was very beneficial to the voting public
Wow, while the reports on this read pretty poorly, watching Sarah deliver that history lesson live was cringingly painful. Sounding less Presidential every time she opens her mouth.
So how’s she trying to spin this one? She stopped campaigning for President to focus more time on campaigning for President?
And is anyone ever going to pay her for a public speaking engagement again, if there’s only a 50-50 chance she’ll even show up? This just doesn’t make any sense, from a point of view of running for office, getting attention, or raking in money. All I can figure is that what we’re seeing is just plain a genuine meltdown.
I’m guessing the dwindling media attention is what did it. She probably envisioned her short bus tour as becoming some kind of snowballing media event, building more and more attention and excitement along the way until it reached a crescendo in Iowa. She’s as big a pure famewhore as we’ve ever seen in politics, and not getting the kind of fevered media attention she craved was making her dopesick. She wants to run, but she doesn’t actually want to have to pay for the publicity like everybody else. She wants it for free. She wants to campaign without having to spend any money or answer any questions. Both of those things would be unfair to her.
She’ll get nuts for attention again soon, especially if people like Bachmann keep getting it, and she’ll find some other stunt to get it. She won’t be able to help herself. I think she desperately wants the attention of running for (and in her delusional fantasies) becoming POTUS, but she doesn’t want to work for it or earn it. She just wants to be anointed. That will never happen, but don’t expect her to stop trying to make it happen.
I think Gingrich got into the race with a very similar rationale, though with an “intellectual” twist. I think he expected Republicans to come running to him with open arms as some kind of savior candidate, and they would make him the nominee by acclamation. He is still waiting for them all to realize his potential, but “working” for it is beneath him. Some day soon… they will come begging for him, once they realize what a once in a century candidate he is.
Did she have to cancel any paying events? Did anyone even know where she was going? I thought the media complaint was that her bus tour stops weren’t being revealed in advance. Did she have any scheduled speaking engagements at all?
“She’s done. She’s been on this cross-country bus tour to promote her folksy ways, and now she has quit halfway through. This is a woman with a very short attention span and a complete lack of discipline and focus; she couldn’t complete her governorship, she can’t finish a bus tour, there’s no way she could cope with a grueling presidential campaign. And if, by some bizarre fluke, she were to actually get elected, I think she’d get bored halfway through the presidential oath of office and decide to go moose hunting, instead.”
