Posted on 06/30/2009 3:47:59 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Sarah Palin trashed by members of John McCain's campaign team in Vanity Fair
BY Michael Saul DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
Monday, June 29th 2009, 12:01 PM Grillo/AP
Alaska's lipstick-wearing pit-bull is a "Little Shop of Horrors."
That's how one longtime friend and campaign trail companion of John McCain, the vanquished 2008 GOP presidential nominee, described veep nominee Sarah Palin.
In an expansive story in the August edition of Vanity Fair, a slew of senior members of McCain's campaign team told reporter Todd S. Purdum that they suffer a kind of survivor's guilt following the 2008 presidential election.
"They can't quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in a Bermuda Triangle of a campaign, they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be," Vanity Fair reports.
During the campaign, there were reports of anonymous McCain aides describing Palin, the governor of Alaska, as a "diva" and a "whack job."
The Vanity Fair article recounts how strained Palin's relationship was with the McCain advisers. She maintained "only the barest level of civil discourse" with Tucker Eskew, the operative assigned to be her chief minder, the magazine reports.
She believed Steve Schmidt, McCain's top strategist, had lied to her about conducting polling in Alaska - that was a "belief she conveyed to anyone who would listen," the magazine reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Surprise! A bunch of RINOs attacking a Conservative. Who would have thought.
Oh sure - THAT'S investigative journalism.
SteveSchmidt was just this April telling us that the biggest threat to the Republican party was not the Democrats but “religion”. This definitely places him outside the mainstream of Republican thought ~ See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/steve-schmidt-mccain-camp_n_188354.html
I’m betting that they won’t be part of Palin’s 2012 campaign. Even given their sterling record. </sarcasm>
That’s the crux of the problem here, going back to November-—you have all of these out-of-work professional GOP beltway campaign hacks who’ve been trying to jump aboard the Palin bandwagon and she won’t give them the time of day. So, they’re now bad-mouthing her all over again to their media buddies out of pure spite and envy.
Palin may have issues, but McCain’s “brain trust” are not likely to be able to understand them much less explain them much less ameliorate them.
Idiot Mac suspends campaign over TARP.
Draws 2,000 people per event pre Palin
Can't get any donors
Sets up her for Media bashing
Mc Cain family thinks they are diva's and nobody cares about them.
This crap is all MADE UP by the left in an attempt to:
1. Destroy the next (female) Reagan.
2. Divide and conquer (what remains of) the GOP.
what can you expect as he realizes it was HER that got the votes they did, and not him.....
That was yesterday’s thread. This is June 30, the next day so a new thread is OK.
In an expansive story in the August edition of Vanity Fair, a slew of senior members of McCain's campaign team told reporter Todd S. Purdum that they suffer a kind of survivor's guilt following the 2008 presidential election.
It'd be like having a building full of Robert Gibbs types.
Whatever!!
Ha ha ha ha ha, these are the losers who supported a presidential candidate who was a loose cannon.
If not for Sarah, the election would have been a bigger blowout than it was. McCain doesn’t have the decency to speak the truth.
RINO’s IMO are nothing less than covert Leftist, Socialist/Democrats trashing the Republican Party with the goal of forcing the Conservative movement to choose Third Party, thus oblivion.
So, she wanted to give a concession speech election night but deferred to McCain and didn’t. That’s a pretty serious accusation. If there’s any proof of this, she’s toast.
McCain is the past; Palin is the future. McCain’s tired out, inside-the-beltway professional pols can’t stand the fact that they’re so over.
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