Lot's of chatter today about how Palin mocked those oh-so revelatory "bitter" comments by Obama last spring.
Said the new tribune of Small Town America:
"I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.
We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."
So let's hold Palin to that standard, too. Because, here in the Midwest, we don't know quite what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on Hillary Clinton in Dayton, but suggests she's a whiner (at a media elite event, no less) in Los Angeles.
Palin at Newsweek Magazine's Women and Leadership Event in Los Angeles, March 2008
"When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or, you know, maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, man, that doesn’t do us any good. Women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country. I don’t think it’s, it bodes well for her -- a statement like that."
Palin in Dayton, Ohio, August 2008
"It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America. But it turns out the women of America aren't finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all."
So come on, governor. You're talking one way about HIllary out there in Hollywood Land and another way in Rust Belt. In addition, I hope you will be doing lots of media interviews about your positions on the issues in the coming days. To hide from the press because you think they are putting a sharper microscope on you because you're a woman doesn't do women in politics, or women in general wanting to progress in this country, any good.
Some might even call that a "perceived whine" about how you are being treated.