Tim Mak of Politico.com is reporting that Sarah Palin has said she would do “whatever I could do to help” should the Republican convention become deadlocked on a nominee. From the context it is clear that she means that she could be the nominee.
This came about in an interview with Eric Bolling of Fox Business Network who responded with “That’s, that’s fantastic.” Since this did occur on Fox, we do not know if Bolling was expressing unbridled enthusiasm, or had in mind the following definitions of “fantastic” from Merriam-Webster’s on-line dictionary:
a: based on fantasy : not real b: conceived or seemingly conceived by unrestrained fancy c: so extreme as to challenge belief : unbelievable; ….
Tom Noonan 