Posted on 07/02/2009 9:08:07 AM PDT by Josh Painter
It appears the Vainly Unfair magazine hit piece, the product of a collaboration between Obama-supporting liberal editor Todd Purdum and a few traitors within the McCain campaign organization, is backfiring. In the uproar that has arisen in the wake of the smear job, some former McCain staffers are standing up to defend their 2008 vice presidential candidate, and, unlike the anonymous anti-Palin leakers quoted in the politically-motivated article, those speaking out in favor of Sarah Palin aren't afraid to let their names be known:
"She's a fine person, with unique and unteachable political skills," said Mark Salter, a senior adviser to Sen. John McCain's (Ariz.) presidential bid who was deeply involved with the Palin pick. "I'm sure she has a future if she wants one."Also speaking up to defend the governor was Jason Recher, who served as senior adviser and trip director for Palin during the general election. Recher told the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza that in the two and a half months he spent traveling with Palin, he:
"grew to like and respect her even more as did many of the folks on the plane." Reche added that the people attacking Palin should "stand up and prove them on the record or move on with their lives like Sarah Palin has.Like Recher, former McCain national finance committee chair Fred Malek has been consistently supportive of Sarah Palin:
"She has been vastly underestimated as a result of one or two interviews," said Malek of Palin. "I have spent a lot of time around her and can state unequivocally she is smart, perceptive, curious, and absolutely on top of issues like energy which are pivotal to her role as Alaska's Governor."Malek recently hosted a foreign policy lunch to allow Gov. Palin to bet better acquainted with Beltway establishment Republicans such as former secretary of defense Frank Carlucci and former deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott.
The ultimate GOP insider is Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, who made the round of morning television talk shows to reiterate his support for the party's 2008 VP candidate:
"Sarah Palin will be a leader in this party," said Steele during an appearance Wednesday on "Morning Joe." "She has the ability to galvanize the base, and even folks outside the base. "And I think all the hindsight second guessing and back looking does nothing."Steele was also lavish with his praise for the governor when he introduced her at an Indiana pro-life event in April:
"And so on that Saturday when she was announced as the vice presidential nominee for the Republican Party, I was one proud Republican. I was one very happy Republican."By saying that he was hoping Sarah Palin would be McCain's choice after the short list for vice presidential nominee had been reduced to just two names, Steele seemed to indicate his preference for her over Minnestota Governor Tim Pawlenty, whose name was also on the list."And like so many in this room, I watched this party light up. I watched activists — Democrat, Republican and independent — tune in and pay attention and listen. And I watched her take the world stage by storm."
"She’s just begun to write the chapters for this country and its history book and its future."
The Democrats and their media mouthpieces appear to have overreached with their non-stop bashing of governor Sarah Palin, and now she is increasingly being seen as a sympathetic figure among what Cillizza calls "the GOP operative class."
- JP
Truth will out...
Too funny!
HA! I love that one!
PING
Should be the “Judas Kiss” for any candidate that they support, in the future!
That cements the situation, for me at any rate -- if you're not willing to put your name to your gossip, then you have no credibility whatsoever, and any journo who repeats it as though it is *verified fact* because he got someone else, who remains nameless as well, to repeat the gossip of the prior-nameless has no credibility with me, either. Anything Cameron reports is immediately a no-go with me, even if he's announcing the sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning.
That she is still even being spoken of displays her value to all who support her politics, and also why many fear her and seek her political demise...
Also shame on those people here who immediately jumped on McCain and the GOP for an article with unnamed sources.. Come on people think!
Excellent. Now, by process of elimination we can start narrowing down a list of suspects ...
Ya take the name of all the staffers, cross out the ones who have come out in support of Our Sarah...and you have “unnamed sources” left.
BTW love the cartoon.
AMAZING ISN”T IT!!! That MCPAIN remains Silent on this Horrible Assault on The PATRIOT that Almost SAVED AMERICA BY HERSELF!! SARAH PALIN!!
Without Sarah, McPain woulda Lost by 20 percentage points to the Biggest LOOSER and COKE Head in AMERICAN HISTORY!!
Without McPAIN, Sarah would have won the Presidency with a 10 percentage point lead!
GO SARAH IN 2012!!!!
I still don’t believe there were any campaign “unnamed sources”. This was a Vanity Fair, Democrat Party hit piece and is being covered by the rest of the media as an actual news story that will be quoted whenever the Democrats need a weapon, “Well, even people in her own party say...”
I have no respect for Cindy McCain. She has a half brother that lives right in Phoenix and her dad was the father of them both. He left the first family when he met Cindy’s mother and left the first family high and dry. She continues to say she is an only child and the other family received none of the millions that she did. I don’t know about you but if that were my brother I think I could part with a little of my inheritance which was also his.
Cindy is totally non-political and owes no statement to anyone. It’s her husband who needs to step up and call out Vanity Fair and denounce that rancid ooze, Todd Purdum.
Hmmm...Strobe Talbott...where have I heard that name before...?
She was on Fox News about a month or so ago, and said she was proud of what her daughter had to say.
Not sure how you could support Sarah and Cindy at this point.
Good to see you out and about dear.
Were the Mastiffs happy after their walk last night?
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