Well, this is odd:
Republican Bob McDonnell kept his distance from Sarah Palin on Monday even as the former Alaska governor had begun making automated phone calls to more than 300,000 Virginia households on behalf of a conservative group, urging them to vote their values in Tuesday’s election.
“I don’t know anything about them,” McDonnell told ABC News on Monday when asked about the Palin robocalls which are paid for by the Virginia chapter of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a socially conservative group headed at the national level by Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition.
Of course, the McDonnell campaign has been keeping it’s distance from the former Governor of Alaska recently:
McDonnell, who answered a question from ABC News following a 7:45 am ET campaign stop in Alexandria, Va., has been carefully calibrating his relationship with Palin.
After telling ABC’s “Top Line” on July 7 that he thought Palin would be “a good spokesman” for his campaign based on what she had done on taxes, regulations, and ethics in Alaska, McDonnell has more recently kept his distance.
On Oct. 9, Politico’s Jonathan Martin reported that Palin was ready to stump for McDonnell and Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey. But neither Republican seemed interested in taking up her offer to help.
“The governor offered her assistance with both races,” Palin adviser Meg Stapleton told Politico. “The ball is in their court.”
The McDonnell campaign eschewed Palin’s help on the stump even though it welcomed other potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates such as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Is Sarah trying to ride McDonnell’s coattails and get credit for a victory she had nothing to do with ?
Update: Here’s the call:
