In an interview with David Remnick in The New Yorker, 2008 Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said that a 2012 Sarah Palin presidential nomination would be “catastrophic” for the GOP, but adds that he “doubts she’ll run.”
Plouffe’s comments amount to a consensus between campaign managers of the last two major party nominees: McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt said in October that nominating Palin would be “catastrophic” also, though he conceded that Palin had “talents.”
At any rate, Plouffe thinks that “we ought to learn from the Obama experience that someone can come out, not someone you’ve never heard of but someone who you just didn’t think would run for President.” He also took one more shot at Palin:
Right now, in terms of her ability to sell books and get speaking fees and just go out there and be a prominent voice in the Republican Party, she’s at a pretty high level. But if you run a race you’re going to get nicked up and you may fall from grace.
