Posted on 03/12/2012 10:45:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On the tail of Game Change‘s premiere on HBO, former McCain/Palin adviser Nicolle Wallace, prominently featured in the film, visited Rachel Maddow tonight to expand upon the lessons of the 2008 campaign, and made clear that she felt fairly guilty about working to make someone “fundamentally unprepared and unsuited for the job” the Vice President of the United States.
Wallace noted that she was still in shock as to “how close we came to having somebody a heartbeat away from the presidency so fundamentally unprepared and unsuited for the job,” adding that, while she thought tossing around the term “PTSD” lightly was disrespectful, for a staffer, it was “the most traumatic experience to realize that they were working on behalf of somebody who– it’s an open question whether she is fit to serve, I certainly don’t think she was.”
Maddow noted that the film itself seemed to be changing the Washington narrative about Palin to be “that the choice of Palin was a disaster– I don’t think that was the consensus before,” which led Wallace to address the criticism of her and other staffers as “turncoats” for divulging the secrets of the campaign. “When loyalty and honesty collide,” she argued, she sided with honesty, particular given “how fundamentally off-base” it was “to pick someone who we knew nothing about.”
Ultimately, Wallace argued, the impact Palin had on campaigns would be felt in both parties for a long time: “both parties will forever avoid a Palin choice… she changed the equation forever.” She added she could see the conversations impacted by her for any possible appointments, since there are “very few opportunities in politics to reshuffle the deck,” but few have ended in such failure.
The segment via Fox News below:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Good grief. She’s actually describing Obummer!
If Palin had run, she’d have the nomination locked up by now.
Yes, like all Communists, their projection precedes their thoughts, words and deeds.
Unqualified. Hates the nation he leads. Checkered and Marxist past. Maddow has no rebuttle other than redirection, Obama and the MSM want to wreck America and bring her to her knees so the Progressives and do a final killing off of Capitalism, Christianity and subvert our sovreignty to the UN. The Eco-Abortion crew will continue to take land and taxation and regulation...along with the Injustice Dept. will try to shred our ways of earning a living.
So, who on the McLame staff hired Nicolle Wallace? Obviously, that decision was NOT well thought out.
There are a great many jerks in the world, and jerks will always be opposed to non-jerks.
I think it is Nicolle Wallace who is mentally ill. Who would want that bitch anywhere near a campaign again?
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TIME: In the book, the vice presidential character, Tara Meyers, is completely unfit for her job.
WALLACE: The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin.
What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out? I became consumed by this question.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/nicolle-wallace-on-game-change-sarah-palin-movie/
Wallace’s relentless attack on and obsession with Palin are extremely alarming. I wonder who her financier is ?
Another planet.
They have completely rewritten history.
McCain was dead in the water for all intents and purposes, and it is her entrance onto the ticket that at least brought him across the finish line. He would have lost even MORE states without her and the energize base, who LOVED HER but still despised and DESPISES HIM. Sheesh.
McCain vet Charlie Black: Nicolle Wallace’s Palin claim ‘bizarre’
Of Wallace, Black said: “She wrote a book of fiction and her comment to Time magazine is fiction.”
“It’s bizarre that Nicolle would say that when, constitutionally, you couldn’t prevent the woman from being sworn in if she was elected vice president,” he continued. “It’s a bizarre way to sell books.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65257.html#ixzz1oyT6bFpD
Another planet.
They have completely rewritten history.
McCain was dead in the water for all intents and purposes, and it is her entrance onto the ticket that at least brought him across the finish line. He would have lost even MORE states without her and the energize base, who LOVED HER but still despised and DESPISES HIM. Sheesh.
You would most likely have to peel layer after layer of cut outs, like an onion, to get to the ultimate financier, but were this accomplished, I would not be surprised to find that ultimate financier had the initials of George Soros...
the infowarrior
ABC News is even worse in their reporting about the Wallace appearance. They don’t explain who Wallace is, that she has a history of having no credibility, or that she is one of the main people responsible for the lies told by HBO in an effort to cover her own tail.
Zeke Miller is not alone. He’s one of many in the media who have been trying to aid HBO in selling this garbage as “reality” to the public. The press is doing back-flips to get you to believe that HBO has credibility and that this movie is accurate. They don’t dare tell their readers and viewers anything about the source of HBO’s information. They repeat the line put out by the entertainment company that ‘Game Change’ portrays Palin in a “sympathetic” light, and that the film is “balanced” because Danny Strong lifted one line out of ‘Going Rogue.’ It’s nonsense. The media is carrying water for their fellow-travelers in the entertainment industry. They don’t care about the truth. They want people to believe that the person in that movie is the real Governor Palin. They need her to be some sort of monster, not who she really is because her success and her true character prove their entire world-view, wrong.
http://conservatives4palin.com/2012/03/media-helps-hbo-while-nicolle-wallace-squirms.html
Nicolle Wallace
HBO’s ‘Game Change’ Idolizes Failed Backstabbing McCain-Palin Advisers
By Noel Sheppard | March 11, 2012 | 20:09
Now that HBO’s Sarah Palin-bashing film “Game Change” has premiered, it is fascinating to note that its two heroes are the very advisers who not only were responsible for the worst presidential campaign in decades, but also ended up backstabbing the candidates they represented.
As John Podhoretz wrote at the Weekly Standard:
http://newsbusters.org/people/nicolle-wallace#ixzz1oyVWpegk
hmmmm.....now would that be someone with almost unlimited money...someone who turned his fellow Jews over to the Nazis and was proud of it??
What vile, evil people.
The insane GOP-e expect to shove Mitt down our throats. Well, I have been leaning towards the unthinkable -- voting for Obama. The arrogant GOP-e can only be destroyed by NEVER voting for their choices.
Our Republic cannot survive a Mitt or Obama term. If our Republic is to be brought to it's knees, let it be at the hands of a real Socialist/Marxist.
The sooner things implode the sooner we can restore our Constitutional Republic.
Absolutely nothing on this Earth will EVER get me to cast a vote for Mitt. I am fully engaged with my family and friends warning them of the evil of Mitt. Mitt would only delay the inevitable.
The blathering mouthpiece Rush, Levin and the rest of the weak kneed Conservatives actually believe Mitt would be better than Obama. The are all wrong. My BP has gone down since I stopped listening to Rush since Bloody Thursday.
(p.s. I know Sarah is A.B.O. but I understand why she has to take that public position)
Wallace is the movie’s heroine. She is the voice of reason, the increasingly alarmed witness to the evil McCain has perpetrated by foisting Palin upon the world. It is through Wallace’s interactions with the vice-presidential candidate that we see confirmed every bad thing anyone has ever said about Palin (save that she is not the mother of Trig—it steers clear of that Sullivanian filth). Wallace (played by Sarah Paulson) delivers screenwriter Danny Strong’s inadvertently hilarious Blue State zinger when, dripping with righteous scorn during a confrontation with Palin, she says with disbelief, “Yeah, you’re just like Hillary.”
Wallace’s deeply principled revulsion is mirrored by that of Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson), the McCain campaign chief whose initial excitement at Palin’s political skills and smarts is fast superseded by his awareness of her religious fanaticism (Schmidt gets a horrified look on his face when she says she sees the hand of God at work) and her ignorance.
Yes, if ever you wanted circumstantial evidence that the sources within the McCain campaign who spent October 2008 dumping on Palin anonymously might have included Wallace and Schmidt, you need look no further than HBO’s Game Change. The movie presents a moral case for the disreputable conduct of aides who, we can presume, fearlessly drop dirty dimes anonymously to save their own standing in the liberal culture from which they desperately wish not to be excluded.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/back-stab_633411.html
Rachel Maddow Plugs and Re-Plugs McCain Aide Smearing Palin as ‘Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs’
By Tim Graham | September 30, 2011 | 08:32
While the “nonfiction” writers have clearly sharpened their knives for Sarah Palin (and put “writers” in quotes if we’re talking Levi Johnston), the liberal media also can’t help but publicize smear-fiction of Palin. Case in point: Nicolle Wallace, the Palin-hating McCain aide, whose new novel smears Palin with a plot about a vice president who isn’t vetted well who’s exposed after the election as mentally ill.
Wallace, who plays a Republican on TV, was featured and touted on two editions of the Rachel Maddow show (Tuesday and Wednesday). Maddow especially liked and reran Wallace suggesting with a smile, “Look, you know, I was inspired by her to write a book about someone who was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. So don’t ask me.”
http://newsbusters.org/people/nicolle-wallace#ixzz1oyWi27Yz
She was part of the Bush crowd.Birds of a feather flock together.She’s like a female david frum. Both wrote books...
Both Bush’s ruined the Republican party.
Filled the party with people who “admire” BHO.
She’s fit to serve. The Left hates a decent woman and promotes a commie poser who pushes every odd thing he can find to destroy traditional America.
Wallace is never asked for her opinion about anything and the libs only ask her about Palin because they know what she will spew!...and her 15 minutes are about up.
Mark Levin totally exposed this piece of human debris Wallace and Steve Schmidt as the ones behind the trashing of Palin since day one. They are now earning their meal ticket with this crap of slamming Palin unmercilessly. They both need to be exposed for the vermin they are. They are the embodiment of inside the beltway loser hacks.
Both are MSNBC whores as well.
Who would have been a better VP candidate?
Bump
I don’t think McCain ever wanted to be President. He just wanted the face time and media adulation of losing to the first “black” President.
Establishment Republicans line up to get the Palin-approved stamp from the MSM, but how often do they give the first Communist President the same treatment? Obama is less of a threat than a POTENTIAL Pres? Does anyone give creedence to these asswipes anymore? It’s like they believe that a President has to know some magical trigonimetric formula to figure out the Executive Branch of government. Bullcrap. Obama was and remains a rank amateur at performing the basic functions of the Presidency. His gaffes are legion at this point, and his decisions have led us to the brink.
Fear her they must, for their demise is her only goal.
You might write some captions under the pictures you post for us folks that never watch TV so we would know who they are. Who are these people you show pictures of? You had time to write a lot of text at the top, it would be easy to put a name under the picture.
Nicolle Devenish Wallace:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/politics/10letter.html
I looked up her history a few years ago; it is enlightening.
Screw her.
In my opinion, Palin did not cost McCain the election. She may have been too green, but she didn’t that many mistakes.
The moment, I think, that cost McCain the election was when he lied to Letterman to do a preferred interview. When he was shown to be an outright liar, when Letterman filmed McCain getting makeup on to do a Couric interview, when he was supposed to doing an interview with Letterman, his campaign was over, imo.
That was not the fault of Palin.
Well... the bald dude in Steve Schmidt bashing Palin as he routinly does on MSNBC and the dizzy broad laughing it up on MSNBC after slamming Paling for the millionth time is Nicole Wallace. Both these RINO hack losers are cashing in on this movie about Palin.
You need anymore proof people! You need any more proof that the McCain campaign was a bunch of phony BS from the start. Here you have Wallace, who has said repeatedly on MSNBC that she did NOT vote for McCain, she voted for Obama..and why did she vote for Obama, because she and Schmidt were upset that McCain did not pick Romney to be VP..so they were pulling for Obama, from DAY ONE, so that Romney would have the best chance of winning the nomination in 2012..and that is why I will NEVER vote for Romney, because you are who you associate with, and Romney associates with jackasses..yeah yeah, I know, we want Obama gone, I want Obama gone too, but to replace him with this schmuck who associates with these two scum bags forget it. Wake up GOP and get rid of these clowns!
Nicolle is a poophead.
I wonder of she and her sidekick Steve Shitz were actually liberal plants in the McCain campaign.
Thank you very much. The woman is pretty, surprising she so crazy
Hundreds of thousands of us voted for the McCain/Palin ticket because Sarah was on it in spite of McCain being on th ticket.
I believe you.
As I said, I don’t think she was a factor. The fact that the liberal media keeps bringing her name is an indication of how dangerous she is to them.
Both Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt are working to destroy Sarah Palin’s credibility before the Republicans get their nominee. That way she will not have her huge popularity to use against Obama and any promotion of the Republican nominee. This indicates to me that they are Democrat operatives.
Heh heh. Yeah, they’ll ignore her as she rises in the future to crush them.
Who exactly is this stupid, silly little bitch....and just why should we care what she “thinks” or spews?
WHY (IS HILLARY) ARE LEFTISTS WORRIED ABOUT SOMEONE WHO IS NOT RUNNING? LOLOLOLOL!
Mark Levin sums up Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt perfectly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQSvlFbZA0Y
McCain was pro-Obama during the 2008 campaign. And now McCain’s ideological soulmate, Mitt Romney, is close to being anointed as the next Republican nominee. The “two-party” system is a sham.
and she is doing that now.
Some FReeper suggested on a thread a couple of weeks ago McCain wanted a big war chest for his Senate campaign. That he did get.
Yep.
yes they better avoid having a true populist, a person that lives her values, and speaks her mind, and stands up for the little people...yes, we certainly can’t have that kind of character running around....NOT!
Having stalled on her way to the top, there is no one else left to sleep with to advance her career so she sows dissent and attempts to ruin anyone above her.
We have all seen and dealt with this type of corporate / political animal she will crash and she will crash hard as soon as the left uses her up.
Seems like the type of political advisor McShame would have!...a regular “reach across the aisle” kind of gal.
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