Elizabeth Vargas of ABC asked Sarah Palin is she was so discouraged by the attacks on her that, if not elected vice president, that she’d just go back to Alaska. Palin answered:

I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we’ve taken, that would bring this whole … I’m not doing this for naught.

Palin went on to say she was “thinking that it’s going to go our way on Tuesday, Nov. 4. I truly believe that the wisdom of the people will be revealed on that day.”

From this — an honest, feisty, optimistic answer to a sandbagging question by Vargas — the dunderheaded Wolf Blitzer tries to spin a “rogue” moment and imply that somehow Palin was undermining McCain: