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Posted on 07/01/2009 9:10:31 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
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But I asked one of the senior McCain campaign officials who worked closest with Palin what he thought of the article, by e-mail last night and then this morning over the phone. He e-mailed back immediately, calling the article "absolutely fascinating" and "completely riveting."
"While the Palin camp is surely marshaling the torches and pitchforks and baying for blood by now, my hope is that somehow — against the odds -- Palin is able to draw some sort of lesson out of all of this that helps her find a way to exist peacefully in the public space. It can’t be easy to spend every day under this kind of withering fire and I know that it is brutal on her family, who are generally good people that never asked for this," the political operative wrote.
"You’d think that at some point, even Palin’s formidable armor of self-deception would so loudly clang against reality that she’d be forced to change. I doubt that though. Introspection doesn’t seem to be her strong-suit. But people can change. I hope she can too...for her sake and for our party’s."
When I spoke by phone this morning with the same official, he said the VF article was not "contrived" and that it did in fact give an accurate portrayal of Palin.
"It's more sad for me because I think she is a great political talent and could have a future or some sort of role but she has these demons that she can't shake and I think its' unfortunate she has this ability to disconnect herself from reality when things go wrong and she has this total lack of introspection," he said.
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I volunteer to help her work out any demons. :)
huh: Something happen I didn’t hear about?
Sounds like a set-up from the the Romney cult-group memebers, who tried to shoot down Palin even before the election took place. And of course, since McManiac himself was only trying to “throw us a bone” in picking Palin, didn’t like it that he was upstaged by her conservative credentials, making him look like a sorry loser that he was... LOL..
So, the cult-member Romney and McManiac can both disappear into the wilderness and get lost... :-)
She is my Joan D Arc.
With each new vicious attack against Palin, I grow more angry with McCain.
A true ‘Office and Gentleman’ would have put a stop to this LAST NOVEMBER from among his campaign staff.
But as we’ve seen via Baby (Meghan) McCain, its obvious that Senator McCain is in fact supporting this grotesque series of ongoing attacks.
The more they pound on her, the better I like her. I don’t think there is anyone else out there right now that can equal her. Her opponents know this and they have got to destroy her or there is no chance for them. Hang in there Sarah. We need you.
The Washington Times is posting rot like this?
I would like to see Sarah Palin totally ignore this crap and when she is asked about it, as all of the “news” media will, simply say “You see now what kind of people they are” and nothing more.
For now it is there for all to see.
This is the hallmark "damning praise" criticism from these McCain staffers. I can recognize it now, if it was a dem they'd simply insult her mental capacity.
Simple reality. Most politicians are idiots. To hear thempronounce someone unqualified is a joke.
Any future campaign that announces a former McCain or Romney staffer as being on their staff will be aggressively opposed by me. I will call for their firing by the current campaign or I will support the opposition - Republican or Democrat. These traitors must not professional live another day!
Cowards.
“...I asked one of the senior McCain campaign officials who worked closest with Palin what he thought of the article...”
Again, an unnamed source talking about lack of introspection and detachment from reality. Anonimity is the ultimate in detachment and lack of introspection.
What all of them are missing is that the fact is that Sarah IS the future of the Republican party, and they can either lead, follow, or get out of the way.
At least the title is approaching the real reason she’s being attacked and by whom.
In the first real presidential campaign America had Thomas Jefferson vs. John Adams. In the last campaign we had John McCain vs. Barak Obama. That pretty much disproves the concept of progress, doesn’t it?
The REAL disconnect was/is between McCain, his staffers and conservatives in the real world. They simply do not know what to make of a conservative Christian family woman/man with mid America views.
vaudine
Some people sure are obsessed with Romney, aren’t they. They bring him up in so many threads, like they have a man-crush on him or something.
Unnamed “sources” always the best idea when you want to destruy someone. I am soooo sick of the Beltway Nancy girls going wobbly on us. It is truly pathetic
I’m beginning to doubt that the republican party has a future, or that it deserves one.
Romney is a RINO bastard.
“senior McCain campaign official” = Romneybot
Also a lot of people believe in articles that has un-named sources too.. I thought we where smarter than that..
McCain is the demon, but Sarah exorcised him last November - yet he is of the undead, somewhere between life and death feeding off the life force of those conservatives still alive!
You said — Some people sure are obsessed with Romney, aren’t they. They bring him up in so many threads, like they have a man-crush on him or something.
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Well, the people who are obsessed with him running for President basically need to *leave* Free Republic, I would say... :-)
It would pay for people to be aware of Jim Robinson’s view on Romney. While I have views on Romney based in him belonging to a non-Christian cult group (i.e., Mormonism...), Jim Robinson has views based upon what he says below...
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Unlike Romney’s “National Council for a New America,” Free Republic is a conservative site!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243314/posts
by Jim Robinson
If there is anyone here who doesn’t understand why we cannot support a slick socialist politician like Mitt Romney, God help you, but you’re on the wrong website. We went through this with the abortionist, gay rights activist, illegal alien supporting, gun grabbing Rudy Giuliani until someone created another website call WAnkers for Rudy and they all flew the coop. Hopefully, before too much FReeper blood is shed, someone will create a WAnkers for Romney site and we can be left to fight the good fight as we see fit!
FR is not for everyone!
And it’s like another poster said — Romney is a RINO bastard.
:-)
Oh, will those McShammy/Romneybot people just SHUT UP????!!!!!!!
I am so sick and tired of those elitists having their “party favorites” and pompously boasting that they speak for the party. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!! Send the RINO herd OUT!!!!
SARAH PALIN, ALL THE WAY!!!!!!
SARAH!!!!!! SARAH!!!!!! SARAH!!!!!
SARAH PALIN, 2012!!!!!
McCain is most likely trying to position himself to run again. It would be a big mistake for the Republican party to let this happen. He would be a very weak President and not what the country needs right now.
I agree. I hope Jon Ward’s days there are limited. It is obvious that he only wants to talk with anonymous “senior McCain campaign officials” rather than ones who have gone record like Jason Recher, who was interviewed by Ward’s colleague at the Times, Amanda Carpenter:
Jason Recher, who worked closely with Mrs. Palin as a vice presidential candidate, said “The mean tone of this article is completely false, this is not the Sarah Palin I knew and spent two and a half months with." He also said he was tired of reporters using information about Mrs. Palin from people unwilling to go on the record.
Hey Times Editors, more Carpenter; no more Ward.
That, ultimately, is the question -- what will Palin learn from these criticisms?
Weak president?! McCain would be Obama Lite.
the reason Sarah Palin was so received by the conservatives is because ... of how she sees things, and speaks of taking on ‘the good ole boys’, reforms, drilling in Alaska, creating a pipeline to the US across Canada, and in truth being a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN.. etc.
I KNOW ... A CONSERVATIVE IS A OXYMORON AT THIS TIME.
God help us if we turn away from Sarah Palin.
We may be beyond turning this madness around. IE, destruction of America values, and way of life, socialism, bankrupting America, destroying our monies value, etc.,.
Oh my, Charles. What a classic case of "projection"!!! Freud would love it.
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Too right - early this year someone called it the Tea Party conservatives vs. the Cocktail party republicans.
McCain is primarily worried about his “legacy” IMHO, and McCain, and his supporters, do not want to admit that Sarah is a MUCH better candidate than he could ever be!
Why can't McCain simply take pride in the fact that HE introduced the world to Sarah?
What parent is embarrassed about the positive attention a child receives?
Only a very jealous parent, who wants all the attention!
Augh. My eyes. She is sooo blazingly hot. Ahhh.
I hate you, LOL.
The only demons surrounding Governor Palin are those feckless fools in the gop who soil themselves in terror whenever her name is mentioned.
This stuff is starting to irritate me. What is it with McCain and his people?
The fact that they insist on pounding her every chance they get tells me that “they” see her as a threat.
By the way, what evidence is there that Romney is involved, and not the usual Democrat propaganda?
Another nameless Romney plant, um, uh, I mean source.
You need to also grow more and more angry with Romney and his camp.
You know, when the election ended, I had high regard for Gov. Palin, but was hesitant to “commit” to supporting her in 2012 until I saw both what she would do next, as well as see who else in the GOP would rise up. (Sanford (heh), Jindal, Barbour, etc.)
All these incessant attacks - and seeing how Gov. Palin handles them - keeps drawing me into the Sarah camp. She isn’t perfect (in particular, she should cut her unspecific griping about the attacks in half, lest she become whiney), but when she’s on, she’s ON.
McCain's campaign picked up a lot of Romney staffers after Romney fell in the primaries. There's no sure way to tell here, but IMHO, Romney's operatives and sycophants are sniping from the political darkness at anyone who either gets in his way (or displays the potential to do so) for a 2012 run against Obama. Unfortunately, they scored a massive hit on Sanford (unfortunately, Sanford basically gave them all the ammunition that they needed), and now it's only Palin who poses the biggest visible threat to a Romney candidacy. In other words, the pro-Romney faction is attempting a hostile takeover of the GOP.
“It’s more sad for me because I think she is a great political talent and could have a future or some sort of role but she has these demons that she can’t shake and I think its’ unfortunate she has this ability to disconnect herself from reality when things go wrong and she has this total lack of introspection,” he said.”
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Ahh yes, still playing from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders playbook. So much talent, but but but “she has these demons she can’t shake” and “this ability to disconnect herself from reality”.
Why doesn’t this anonymous, unnamed insider come out from the shadows? Two options:
1. He doesn’t exist
2. He does exist. But he’s a self-serving, inside
the beltway pantywaist in the mold of Schmidt and the
other pathological liars who infested the McCain
campaign and is too much of a *uss to man up and take
on Sarah mano y mano.
These people are pathetic, sniveling, self absorbed cowards.
Warning: this links to the Huffinton Post!... We should not go there, but that is where the article came from)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/steve-schmidt-mccain-camp_n_188354.html
I think he’s setting himself up to give Palin as his excuse for losing re-election in Arizona.
“she has these demons that she can’t shake”
And we know who they are.
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