A dare Palin may come to regret
September 18th, 2008 1:12 AM Eastern
by Mosheh Oinounou
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Asked Wednesday to reassure voters about her readiness to handle foreign policy in the White House, Gov. Sarah Palin offered up a dare.
“I’ll be ready. I have that confidence. I have that readiness and if you want specifics with specific policy or countries go ahead you can ask you can play stump the candidate if you want to,” Palin told more than 3,500 supporters at her first public town hall tonight in Western Michigan.
The GOP VP nominee offered up the game of “stump the candidate” during her final response of the night in a town hall session where she otherwise successfully tackled questions on energy, Iraq and her personal life. However, in response to the final question of the night, from a supporter to asked for “specific skills” Palin will offer when it comes to foreign policy, Palin instead repeated that she is ready for office and dared anyone curious to quiz her on international affairs.
While Palin’s offer of ’stump the candidate’ was partially meant in jest, media already eager to trip up the Alaska Governor on her perceived weakness now have even more incentive to—if ever accorded the opportunity to ask questions. The campaign of course has been extremely selective about opportunities to question Palin–she has only conducted two national interviews and has yet to take questions in a formal setting.
Still, one of the last candidates to dare the media was former presidential candidate Gary Hart who, when suspected of womanizing, famously told the media “follow me around . . . . I’m serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’d be very bored.” He lost that dare. |
