Romney says Palin qualified to be president, plus late-night jokes from Mitt and Sarah
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Sarah Palin is qualified to be president -- so says fellow Republican Mitt Romney, who has run for president before and is expected to run again.
‘Yes,’’ Romney said to a question of the former Alaska governor’s qualifications to serve as president, in an appearance Wednesday on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe.’ ‘She’s terrific -- she’s got energy, passion,’’ he said last night on the ‘Late Show With David Letterman.’
She’s also a stand-up comic, it turns out -- as she demonstrated last night on Jay Leno’s ‘Tonight Show.’ ‘I’m glad I’m not president,’’ Palin said in her routine. ‘I wouldn’t know what to do with all that free time.’’
How about those notes she wrote on the palm of her hand for her keynote address to the ‘tea party’ convention in Nashville, Tenn., Leno asked Palin last night.
‘The poor-boy’s version of the teleprompter,’’ Palin suggested. ‘Think about what I wrote on my hand. ... I wrote energy. ... I wrote tax cuts. ... I wrote, lifting America’s spirit. ... I don’t think anybody could argue the substance, but they certainly could argue the format. ‘Just to get the left all ‘wee-weed’ up, and get their heads spinning, I’m gonna promise I’m gonna keep doing it,’’ Palin said. (That ‘wee-weed up’ is an Obama line, remember -- for when ‘people get all nervous for no particular reason.’’) Most Americans disagree: viewing Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president and former governor and mayor of Wasilla, Ala., as unqualified for the top office.
Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a candidate for the GOP’s ’08 presidential nomination, has a sense of humor too -- as he explained to Letterman last night. The former governor told the tale of the fellow seated in front of him on the flight home from the Olympic Games in Vancouver who refused to push his seat forward at takeoff. Romney complained, and ‘he gave me a good swat -- and he broke my hair.’’
-- Mark Silva