http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_el_pr/palin#full

"It's amazing that we did as well as we did,*" Palin, who was Sen. John McCain's running mate, said of the election in a separate interview with the Anchorage Daily News.

"I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10 trillion debt in a Republican administration? How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration? If we're talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party at the time had been representing," Palin said in a story published Sunday.

* Probably meaning that they lost only a handful of seats in each house, when they could have lost dozens.

Also, the article does ramble on about those clothes, which makes me wonder when the Style channel took over Associated Press.

no shit, governor. At least she's not totally naive.

If she was even half as naive as those attacking her claimed, she would have been a joke before McCain even considered her.

Well, she gets it :-S

See, now that the campaign is over and she doesn't have to try to say silly things like she's a god VP choice and Americans should vote for Republicans again, she suddenly sounds like a smart lady.

It wasn't her fault she sounded like a ditz through the entire campaign. There are some claims you just can't make without sounding like a moron.

Palin is the one that ruined the campaign..... It was quite a foolish tactic to try to get a woman vice president.

Except nobody knew who the @#$% she was before McCain picked her. She could have almost gotten away with murder up there and the mainstream media (ergo, the country) wouldn't have cared.

Palin was the reason why the Republicans lost the election. Ron Paul or Joe Lieberman would of been a better choice for VP candidate.

^^ Ron Paul would be quite possibly the worst choice possible.

So could almost any obscure politician. How is this relevant to her assumed naivite?