Karl Rove, a Republican strategist who suggested last Sunday that Sarah Palin would likely disclose her plans for the 2012 GOP race over Labor Day weekend, blasted the former vice-presidential candidate for being sensitive and starved for attention during an interview with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News.
“It is a sign of enormous thin skin if we speculate about her, she gets upset, and I suspect if we didn’t speculate about her, she’d be upset and trying to find a way to get us to speculate about her,” he said Wednesday.
Rove’s comments come just days after Palin’s SarahPAC political action committee issued a statement castigating members of the media for claiming to know when she intends to announce her decision about whether she will enter the 2012 presidential race.
“Any professional pundit claiming to have ‘inside information’ regarding Governor Palin’s personal decision is not only dead wrong but their comments are specifically intended to mislead the American public,” the statement reads.
While Rove admitted that he is unfamiliar with Palin’s thought-making process, he says he never claimed to know any inside information. Echoing the sentiments of Palin’s grass-roots organization in Iowa, Rove believes the actions she has taken indicate that she will eventually announce her candidacy.
“I’m mystified. Look, she is all upset about this, saying I’m somehow trying to sabotage her – sabotage her in some way and that how dare I speculate on her future. Look, if she doesn’t want to be speculated about as a potential presidential candidate, there’s an easy way to end the speculation. Simply say, ‘I’m not running,’” he advised.
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