Well, it isn't just Democrats who have a relatively low opinion of Sarah Palin. Some Republicans do to. Former Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) to AP via MSNBC:
"People were coming into my office, phone calls were flooding in, e-mails were coming in, 'I just sent money to Obama, I couldn't sleep last night' — from the left. To see this cocky wacko up there," Chafee said to laughter.
Chafee said in an interview Thursday that he found much of Palin's convention speech objectionable, particularly her "mocking" assertion that Obama was overly concerned with al-Qaida terrorists getting read their rights.
That comment "got to the core of everything wrong with the last eight years," he said.
"I consider that wacky, and certainly her tone was very, very cocky," said Chafee, a visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. "So I thought they were appropriate words."
Now, in the interest of fairness, Lincoln Chafee probably would be best described as a liberal Republican. Heck, we are talking about the only Republican to vote against the use of force in Iraq! Nevertheless, this is someone who, despite the fact that he now supports Barack Obama, was a friend and supporter of John McCain for many years.
Of course, it'll be turned around that Barack Obama called Sarah Palin "wacky" and "cocky." Hmm....Maybe he should.
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