Did John McCain’s running mate – Sarah Palin endorse Barack Obama’s message of change? In a story by the New Yorker Magazine it certainly seemed like Sarah Palin was certainly a fan of Barack Obama’s message of change.

“Before she was running against him, Sarah Palin—the governor of Alaska and now the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States—thought it was pretty neat that Barack Obama was edging ahead of John McCain in her usually solidly red state. After all, she said, Obama’s campaign was using the same sort of language that she had in her gubernatorial race. “The theme of our campaign was ‘new energy,’ ” she said recently. “It was no more status quo, no more politics as usual, it was all about change. So then to see that Obama—literally, part of his campaign uses those themes, even, new energy, change, all that, I think, O.K., well, we were a little bit ahead on that.” She also noted, “Something’s kind of changing here in Alaska, too, for being such a red state on the Presidential level. Obama’s doing just fine in polls up here, which is kind of wigging people out, because they’re saying, ‘This hasn’t happened for decades that in polls the D’ ”—the Democratic candidate—“ ‘is doing just fine.’ To me, that’s indicative, too. It’s the no-more-status-quo, it’s change.”

This was two weeks ago, at the statehouse in Juneau. After persistent reports, in July, that Palin was on McCain’s short list of potential running mates, her name had faded back into obscurity. Nobody in Alaska seemed to take her seriously as a national prospect, and she had shrugged the whole thing off on television, telling CNBC’s Larry Kudlow that, before considering the job, she would want to know “what is it, exactly, that the V.P. does every day.” Now, at the statehouse, she sat, unattended by aides, curled up in a cardigan, and explained that what she had done every day since becoming governor was to stick her thumb in the eye of Alaska’s Republican Party establishment. “The G.O.P. leader of the state—we haven’t spoken since I got elected,” she said.”

Then again, how much does what a candidate say before the race even matter today? Barack Obama had said he would not run in 2008, Joe Biden said he was definitely not the running mate, and Sarah Palin endorsed Barack Obama.”

Thank you justesurfin for the hat tip. If any of you readers have any good dirt on Sarah Palin please send it to me. Any Sarah Palin dirt would be welcomed.

Thank you justesurfin for the hat tip

Related Posts:

Why Does the Media Hate Sarah Palin?
Lots of People Searching for Dirt on Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin Picked to be John McCain’s Running Mate – VP
John McCain on the View Presents Sarah Palin the Reformer
Barack Obama and Joe Biden Voted for the Bridge to Nowhere