Here at TPMmuckraker, we’ve been closely following Sarah Palin’s various personnel decisions from her time as governor of Alaska for quite a while, but we had no idea how tough those decisions had been until we heard it from Sarah herself.
In an interview with Greta van Susteren, Palin called personnel decisions her most “agonizing” work as governor and quipped: “Sometimes it gets personal, sometimes it gets political.”
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
Transcript after the jump.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Let me make one last sort of — of question sort of like that, but what’s the most agonizing decision that you had to make as governor, the one that’s toughest for you?
PALIN: Whenever an issue has to deal with personnel, whether to keep someone on or whether to ask them to step aside so someone else can come in and take their place because, you know, sometimes it gets personal, sometimes it gets political. But replacing someone in a cabinet, sometimes that’s agonizing, but you got to do what you got to do. Putting the people who hired you first, you got to make sure you have the right team around you so that you can best serve.