[Sarah Palin: Sarah Palin Totally Predicted the Ukraine Situation]
By Brad Knickerbocker
It’s not true that Sarah Palin once said “I can see Russia from my house.” That was comedian and Palin impersonator Tina Fey on “Saturday Night Live.”
But back in 2008
when she was the GOP’s vice presidential candidate, trying to establish
her credentials on things like foreign policy, the ex-Governor of Alaska
did say of Russia, “They're our next-door neighbors, and you can
actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”
Which
is literally true – on a clear day if you stand on your tippy-toes and
gaze from the Alaskan island of Little Diomede across the International
Date Line to the unpopulated Russian island of Big Diomede two and one
half miles away.
This running joke about Ms. Palin
– who went on to become a Fox News commentator, star of her own brief
reality show, and well-paid Obama scold on behalf of the tea party –
came to mind when she went on Facebook to comment on the crisis in Ukraine:
“Yes, I could see this one from Alaska,” she wrote. “I'm
usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate
prediction being derided as ‘an extremely far-fetched scenario’ by the
‘high-brow’ Foreign Policy magazine. Here’s what this ‘stupid’ ‘insipid
woman’ predicted back in 2008: ‘After the Russian Army invaded the
nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's
reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of
response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine
next.’”
Then she went on Fox News to elaborate.
"Back
in 2008, I accurately predicted the possibility of Putin feeling
emboldened to invade Ukraine because I could see what kind of leader
Barack Obama would be,” she said. “The bullies of the world are always
emboldened by indecision and moral equivalence. We can expect more of
this sort of thing in a world where America is gutting its military and 'leading from behind.'"
As usual, Palin is nothing if not controversial, and she delights in tweaking the “lamestream media.”
Earlier
in the week, Palin won Newshound’s “most outrageous quote” reader poll
for another Facebook post: “If he is good enough for Ted Nugent, he is good enough for me!” (Newshound’s motto is “We watch Fox so you don’t have to.”)
Ted
Nugent, of course, is the geezer rocker who called President Obama a
“communist-educated, communist-nurtured, subhuman mongrel.” Palin’s
reference was in support of Greg Abbott, the Republican candidate for
Texas governor now serving as the state’s Attorney General, who has
welcomed Nugent’s endorsement – or at least refused to say anything
critical about “The Nuge’s” political pronouncements.
Meanwhile, fellow tea partiers have been chuckling over Palin’s Ukraine moment.
“Palin
not only knows where Russia is, but she knew what Putin would do to
Ukraine with Obama as president,” radio talk show host Mark Levin
tweeted.
“In light of recent
events in Ukraine … nobody seems to be laughing at or dismissing those
comments now,” wrote Tony Lee at Breitbart.com.
Others note that Mitt Romney was
accused of reviving the Cold War when, as the 2012 Republican
presidential candidate debating Obama, he stated that Russia is "without
question our number one geopolitical foe."
At the moment, Palin’s Facebook post on Ukraine has 66,684 “likes” and 15,442 “shares.”
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