Rosie O'Donnell: "I'd Like To Have A Beer With" Sarah Palin

At last night's Broadway opening of Billy Elliot, Rosie O'Donnell spoke out to "Extra" for the first time since Barack Obama was elected president - expressing her excitement about his historic win and even praising the woman who could have been vice president. Admitting she'd like to meet Governor Sarah Palin, O'Donnell comments, "I'd like to have a beer with her. I'd like to meet her kids. She seems like a pretty nice woman. Although I have to say, I am thrilled her party did not win. [But] you got to give it to her for spunk."

She continues, "I think I probably would like her [Palin] if I met her....She had an amazing life for herself and her family in Alaska. Very successful. Before you knew it, she was the most famous person in the country..." As nice as Palin might seem, O'Donnell exclaims, "If [John] McCain won...I would be in the depression unit of the ICU."

About Obama's victory, O'Donnell says, "It's really beyond what I had hoped could happen...I can't really recall feeling the way that I did about our country. About the promise of democracy....Seems as though the last eight years have been nothing but a dark, funky depression...Hope is possible and change is here. Way to go America!"

Reacting to the passing of Proposition 8, which overrides the decision to recognize same- sex marriages in California, O'Donnell comments, "I was married four years and I was annulled three years ago, so for me this fight is not new. Prop 8 is nothing new for me. This has been a long journey...and eventually the world will catch up."

Rosie O'Donnell's primetime show, Rosie Live, airs on NBC on November 26th.

Comments

[jeplanet]

I think RosieO was probably just trying to take the high road and be nice. But it's NOT NECCESSARY to be nice to these people.
SarahPalin would strip Ro of her kids and her rights in 2 seconds if she had her way. SP thinks Ro's relationship "devalues" her's.
That's not someone you should want to have a beer with, RosieO !!

[emmaspeaks]

Rosie feels good now, so she can take the high road. I will bet that before the election, she had a hard time holding her tongue.

[Bronx56]

Rosie.....­Wasn't that "Spunky" old Stalin a hoot!!!!!!­!!!....

[Indie2008]

and I bet that David Duke was a just a fun lovin good ole boy!

[breezyholler]

PERHAPS ROSIE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE MORE THAN A BEER WITH SARAH...MA­YBE SOME OF THAT SPUNK ?????????????

[WomanAK]

Rosie:
Palin was in politics when Alaska passed a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT in 1998 defining marriage: "To be valid or recognized in this State, a marriage may exist only between one man and one woman".

Rosie, you care about kids and families. What has Palin as governor done for women and families in the state with the highest rate of domestic violence and sexual assault in the nation, and a 43 BILLION dollar budget surplus?
Next to Nothing.

[maxsmom]

why in the world would you? everything she has to offer was thrown at us for weeks and she is super irritating!!

[aloha43]

Rosie.....­.

YOU CAN HAVE HER! Please take her away, you can have her to your hearts desire.

PLEASE!!

[libratine]

Incredibly ironic that it doesn't register with RO that SP wouldn't wanna have a beer with her.

[QueenOfViolets]

I disagree. I think SP is desperate to build her own media share and would even have a beer with Sean Penn if that would keep her on the national stage for another 15 minutes.

[KarenSL]

Isn't it funny how celebrities change their talk when they have a primetime show about to launch -- Rosie, just as the President, has to try and please ALL in order to be liked and supported. How could Rosie want to go and have a beer with Sarah on the one hand YET confirms that if Sen. McCain were elected President she would be in ICU suffering from depression -- sounds just like Rosie though talking out of both sides of her mouth.

[TurboCity]

She just wants to get Palin drunk so she can take advantage of her.

[nick1936]

Yes i believe Rosie wants to invite her to a LICK in

[AJBF]

I wonder if O'Donnel would be so starry eyed about Palin if Palin was unnatractive physically. It's pathetic - for all her "spunk" (I would call it hubris and ingnorance-fueled self-confidence) and sometimes charm, Palin is an unprincipled, power-hungry bigot. She would take your kids away from you and deny you any rights, Rosie. Wake up.

[Mewcatone]

Two sides of the same coin....

[aloha43]

Birds of a feather...­..

[LMKay66]

Rosie is probably attracted to Palin, that's all. The Reps seem to be under the spell of Palin's attractiveness. Just think...wo­uld Palin have "excited the base" as much if she wasn't attractive? Personally I don't find her attractive at all. To me there are so many other ugly things about her that seem to override her face.

[Wiserone]

Exactly! After the 'intelligent' men voters stopped being gooey-eyed about Palin and she opened her mouth, they realized she had very little to back it up.

[MoonsinLeo]

I think O'Donnell would have a beer with anybody. I think she's in it for the hops.

[Biscuit]

Hey, I'd like to have a beer with Sarah Palin, too. And then take her back to my place and lay her down by the fire.

Bet she's submissive.

[davesideas]

thanks for the weird fantasy...­yep, you wrote that in public

[aloha43]

That's just gross.

[Topfeeder]

If you put her in the fire I'll bring the marshmallows.

[Sardonica]

Sarah Palin's base, ladies and gentlemen.­..

[IronMikeHouston]

Why would Sara want to have a beer with Rosie? Rosie is so ugly that hurts the eyes.

[Wildofski]

What is it with gay women and Sarah Palin, I just finished reading Camile Paglia's article in Salon
praising Sarah Palin and now I come over to Huffington Post and read Rosie O'Donnell wants to
go out and have a beer with her. This is a woman who if she was in charge of this country would
put the both of them in a re-education camp to straighten them out to heterosexuality!

[Eidolas]

What is it with Huffpo's obsession over this woman?