DUH!!! ~ I'm not a fan of Nicolle Wallace, but she won't deserve the backlash I suspect might come out of her comments for simply telling the truth ~ Sooz

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Ex-Sarah Palin Aide: 'She Was In Over Her Head' In 2008 (VIDEO)
By Ahiza Garcia Published October 23, 2014, 8:22 AM EDT

Nicolle Wallace, the former Sarah Palin aide who now co-hosts ABC's "The View," said on Wednesday that it was clear pretty quickly in 2008 that the former GOP vice presidential nominee was not up for the job.

Wallace made her comments during an appearance on "The Wendy Williams Show."

"There was a moment shortly after I met her where I realized that she realized that she was in over her head," Wallace said. "Just watching her sort of shrink under the enormity and the scrutiny and the hot bright light of our national political process."

"We should be happy when anyone wants to go into politics," the former GOP strategist continued. "We are really hard on our politicians and we should be happy when people want to jump in and do that."

Williams asked whether Palin was a "crier."

"No, I've seen George Bush more, cry more often than I've ever seen - no, no, she wasn't a crier," Wallace said.

Williams then delved into Wallace's strained relationship with Palin.

“I think she was really disappointed with the way she was being handled by the entire staff and I think I was a fair scapegoat,” Wallace said. “I was one of a very small circle of people helping her. And the decisions in hindsight weren’t good ones for her. I mean she didn’t look good. So it was fair to be mad at a staff person, that’s your job."

"But there's nothing you can do as a staffer when you sort of lose the confidence of the principal and that's what happened through the course of the Couric interviews," Wallace continued.

Wallace has been a continuous critic of Palin since the 2008 campaign, even talking about what she described in 2010 as Palin's "incredible cynicism, her bitterness, her aggressive attempts to claw anyone that points out an area for her to work on."

Watch the video below:


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nicolle-wallace-sarah-palin-adviser

Nicolle was a major character in the book and the HBO movie The Game Change. She was very, very open about saying Sarah was not an appropriate candidate to just about everyone on the campaign staff. Fictional Nicolle even said she did not vote because of Sarah's lack of preparedness for the presidency.

I think the world really dodged a bullet when John McCain:

1. lost the election; and
2. survived (although he would only be half way through his second term)

Can you imagine Sarah having her finger on "The Button" during moose hunting season?

I'm a bit disappointed in Bristol. A couple of years ago, when she was living in Arizona and away from the screech owl, she seemed to be getting her head screwed on straight.

this is pretty much precisely what Matt Damon said. you seen the youtube video, jim? you would like it. look up Sarah Palin Matt Damon Dinosaurs and i bet it will pop right up.