The "First Dude"

So i fell upon this news story explaining that on september 19, after Joe Miller had an interview with Fox News by Sunday's Chris Wallace, that Sarah Palin's husband, Todd Palin (also known as the "First Dude"), sent "an angry email to Joe Miller. The email was said to be sent because, the GOP Senate nominee, Joe Miller, was less than enthusiastic in his appraisal of a possible Sarah Palin 2012 presidential bid. First of all, i don't get why he is sending the email when this problem is clearly between his wife, Sarah Palin, and Joe Miller. Yeah he is standing up for his wife, but all this does is make him look back which then makes Sarah Palin look bad, and no one wants a president with a husband that may send every person in the country an email for every time they bad mouth her.

In his email he explains how Sarah did so much for Joe to endorse him and that to him it looked like this endorsement stuff was one sided do to Joe Miller's response when asked if Sarah Palin was a good candidate. Incase you don't know what he said, Chris Wallace asked Miller if Palin was "qualified to be president." Miller replied by saying, "That's not my role to comment on those candidates." I can see his unwillingness to not answer the question as bad because it means first of all your not supporting someone that supported you and then it means your not sure of that person.

The next thing that surprised me was that when Todd Palin talked to Matt Continetti of Weekly Standards, he downplayed the email. He tried to play off the email as a mistake and that he got his information wrong and that he was wrong about Joe. I know all of this isn't true, he is just going out there and redeeming himself because he embarrassed himself and his wife and he needed to fix it by saying he was wrong. Also, after replying to the email on September 22, Joe Miller was again asked about Palin's 2012 presidential chances by Fox News's Neil Cavuto. Joe didn't alter his position but he did add, "There are a lot of great candidates out there... Certainly Palin is at the top if the ticket." I know he added that to make himself look like the bigger person and to show that he supports Palin somewhat but still believes that "... this is not a race about Palin."

I feel that all of this was so pointless because Todd Palin just turned around and said the email was a mistake because he misunderstood Miller and that Miller wanted to make himself look better by saying Palin is a good candidate. Really what's the truth, because i can't tell.