Posted on 10/25/2008 10:41:48 AM PDT by Publius804
Palin Goes 'Rogue'?
By Robert Stacy McCain on 10.25.08 @ 12:53PM
And not a moment too soon:
Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline. "She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to "go rogue" in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.
I said early and often that the Palin rollout -- with the McCain campaign going out of its way to keep Palin away from the media -- was mishandled:
If she can't handle a press conference, how can you argue she's ready to be vice president? This fear-based, defensive, curl-up-inside-your-shell posture toward the press is killing the GOP. It's insane: Treat the press like the enemy and then complain about media bias. Oh, I wish Tony Snow were still alive to explain to these "senior campaign officials" why this approach doesn't work.
If nothing else has been gained in this campaign, at least the "Tucker Bounds School" of Republican media strategy has been exposed as the wrongheaded nonsense it is.
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She needs to distance herself from McCain and his lame ass campaign.
If only she were the candidate. *sigh*
The story is running from Politico and is being repeated.
This is Obama operative insider bullshit.
Also why is she listening to former Bush aides, they left the party in a mess.
The rogue agents are the campaign advisers. They work for you - fire them.
The Politico are bunch of candyass leftists.
Palin trusting her instincts won her Alaska governorship and 80% approval ratings.
Palin is suppose to listen to these Bush bozos, whose President is at 25% approval rating?
Reagan would of taken these Bush aides and cracked their heads together like Moe with Larry and Curly.
Exactly - I voted for the man twice but I am so angry at the state of the party.
wow at least three posts on this.
This pretty much describes the Bush approach towards the media during its entire second term, and communicating with the American public generally. How has this approach worked out for them?
The report seems plausible to me. When McCain first picked her, I watched dozens of YouTube clips of Sarah giving interviews to Alaskan and national media. She is very good at it. That woman can charm a cobra if you just give her a chance.
I agree.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Exactly! The word from the High Command (EIB Network) was to let loose Palin and let her be herself. This is exactly what she is doing and look at the following she’s got ! Some of the idiots running the McCain campaign should be fired.
Obamaco.com you mean.
Who invent the quotes they attribute to their imaginary sources.
Good point.
Bush and Rove did win a few elections, but they did so with a scorched earth strategy for the GOP.
Palin needs to surround herself with like minded fundamental conservatives so that we can have a redux of the Reagan Revolution.
Go Sarah!
If she can't handle a press conference, how can you argue she's ready to be vice president? This fear-based, defensive, curl-up-inside-your-shell posture toward the press is killing the GOP. It's insane: Treat the press like the enemy and then complain about media bias. Oh, I wish Tony Snow were still alive to explain to these "senior campaign officials" why this approach doesn't work.
I totally disagree with this analysis and these purported statements. Obama was the darling. He didn't get a sniff of a hard question until Fox continually pressed the Wright issue. That never happened until approx. 12 months into his campaign in the primaries where finally SNL had a skit with Obama getting softballs and Clinton being grilled on gotcha questions. After this skit, it prompted a question from the MSM to him about Rezko which got Obama running away in a huff from the press gathering.
To hell with the MSM. They had made up their mind on Obama virtually from the inception of the primaries and anything they did was to ruin her and undermine the campaign. She had no obligation, duty, or reason, to do interviews with ABC or that punkgirl Couric with cBS. She should have cut her eye-teeth with Fox from the inception and the MSM isolated. She was mishandled but considering the couple of weeks she had before she was exposed to the MSM with that fat geezer Gibson it is the MSM which should be ashamed not her.
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