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By Peter Andrew

Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to be a vice presidential nominee for a major party, is very critical of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin who was the second woman in that position.

Shannon Bream at Fox News spoke with Ferraro, and this is what Ferraro said…

The thing about it is I think she made a bad move. I think not running for reelection is one thing. People understand that, because if people want to run for president, very, very frequently they do not run for a new term. They say, OK, I will spend my time doing what I need to do for the next two years, running around and raising money and seeing people throughout the country. They can be on a listening tour. But to not complete her term that she was just elected to two and a half years ago, not complete it for the year and a half I think is a very bad decision.

She is claiming that she did it because the legislature was not allowing her to get things done for the state of Alaska. Do you how many states are complaining because of the economic condition being what it is, and these governors are just having a terrible, terrible time making ends meet and balancing the budget.

And with her too, because oil revenues have been down considerably in the last year. And so, evidently, the state was having real problems.

Bad business to walk away from a problem. How do you do it? If you get to the President of the United States stuck with a problem that you moved into the office with. And god knows what comes next. You can’t just walk away from the job. So I think that was a bad move.

I think discussing this only with her family was not such a good idea, because people do not like to be criticized. I personally think she won as far as David Letterman was concerned. She got him to apologize. He was out of line. She won on that.

But you get on a national campaign, and they are going to be terribly critical. I know that from experience. And it will be bad.

She said just not in that interview with Greta, if you cannot deal with it, then you should not run for public office. That is part of what goes on.

Is it right? No. But will it happen? Absolutely. If she cannot take it up in Alaska, what is she going do when she cannot take it on a national level?

So she has put herself into a position where for the next year and a half she could very well have gone as the governor of Alaska to wherever she wanted to go. She is in a different place now. She will not be invited to various places where negotiations are going on.

They will talk to her as governor but there will not talk to her as Sarah Palin who may or may not run for president. There is a real difference in how you are treated when you are in office and when you’re out of office. And so I just think she made a very, very bad move.

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