Sarah Palin Was 'In Over Her Head,' George W. Bush A 'Crier' According To Former Aid

Nicolle Wallace, the former communications chief for George W. Bush and senior advisor for the McCain–Palin campaign, said on Wednesday that it was quickly clear in 2008 that Sarah Palin was in over her head.

Wallace, who now co-hosts ABC’s “The View,” made those 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. 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. We are really hard on our politicians and we should be happy when people want to jump in and do that.

Pressed by William about whether Palin was a crier, Wallace replied: “No, I’ve seen George Bush more, cry more often than I’ve ever seen – no, no, she wasn’t a crier.”

In late October 2008, campaign aides criticized Palin with one unnamed McCain aide saying that Palin had “gone rogue”, placing her own future political interests ahead of the McCain-Palin ticket, directly contradicting her running mate’s positions and disobeying directions from campaign managers. These allegations led to dissension within the McCain-Palin campaign and Wallace issued a statement to both Politico and CNN saying: “If people want to throw me under the bus, my personal belief is that the most honorable thing to do is to lie there.”

When Williams delved into Wallace’s strained relationship with Palin she responded:

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. 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.

You can watch the interview, below, and you can go here for Leaked Footage Of Katie Couric Making Fun Of Sarah Palin.

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Sarah Palin Was ‘In Over Her Head,’ George W. Bush A ‘Crier’ According To Former Aid – VIDEO