Posted on 06/30/2009 6:01:02 AM PDT by Josh Painter
The NY Daily News is promoting the August edition of Vanity Fair, in which a vicious hit piece full of lies, distortions and innuendo savagely attacks everything about Sarah Palin, not the least of which is her character.
The load of garbage disguised as an article was written by the liberal magazine's national editor Todd Purdam. If you don't know where he's coming from, consider that Purdam formerly worked for the New York Times, the newspaper of the Democrat Party's liberal wing. He is married to Dee Dee Myers, who was Bill Clinton's White House press secretary from 1993 to 1994. Clinton has called Purdam "a real slimy guy," "a scumbag" and a" dishonest guy." Clinton should know. The former president was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998.
The VF hit piece, written by "a dishonest guy," quotes a slew of senior members of McCain's campaign team" bash Sarah Palin. None of these McCain staffers has the courage to put their names behind their attacks, of course. This was their modus operandi back in November, when DBKP pointed out:
As Rush Limbaugh observed, "John McCain’s campaign staff has spent more time attacking Sarah Palin than it did attacking Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers…and Obama himself."Michelle Malkin called the Palin-bashers inside the McCain campaign "classless cowards":
"At least all the Hollywood and Manhattan Palin-haters were willing to sign their names and put their faces on their attacks."Six months later, and there they go again. Unable to man up and admit that they ran one of the worst presidential campaigns in U.S. electoral history, these disgusting losers are repeating their hearsay attacks on Gov. Palin.
Why, you may ask, are they doing this? It's simple, really. They want jobs with any potential GOP presidential candidate for 2012 who will hire them. In order to excuse the poor performance of the campaign they ran for McCain, they still need their scapegoat, and they long ago chose McCain's former running mate to blame their incompetence on. Though it's only 2009, we're approaching the point where the planning for primary campaigns begins, and staffing is one of the first things the nascent campaign organizations start thinking about.
Who is behind the anonymous dissing of Sarah Palin? The first former McCain staffer outed for kneecapping Gov. Palin was Nicole Wallace. Wallace had been a political analyst for the CBS Evening News, where she became friends with Katie Couric and arranged the interview with Sarah Palin for which Couric prepared by studying with anti-Palin foreign-policy advisors who went on to campaign for then-candidate Barack Obama.
Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House, have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election. 'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,' says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin. 'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney. He's in charge on November 5th.'"The Prowler added:
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win. So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012.
Just two days after the election, The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney."I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected. These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."A list of key McCain campaign people is here. The next step is to go through the list name by name and identify the ones who jumped on McCain's bandwagon after jumping off of Romney's. To quote McCain himself, "You will know their names.""Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012, they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney. This also explains people like Kathleen Parker, who lusts the magnificent hair."
- JP
It was a very anti-Romney story.
I don’t know why Romney puts up with these folks who bash a candidate prior to even running. Once Romney and Palin announce they are running than it is gloves off, but until then this is just weird.
We also know that Romney did behind the scenes crap to take down Fred. Since this is all well-known what can be done to rid the GOP of this phony car salesman? With all his money and with swooning people won over by bright shiny things, he couldn't even beat McCain!
Romney supporters bashing Sarah? Wow, I’m shocked. /s
Does this poll have its own thread? Perhaps you could post it separately. So far, Palin is “ahead” by 60%. It just needs a good Freepin’.
The shoe fits.
- JP
And not one of these 27%ers believe for a second that 'McCain might have won'. The before and after campaign pictures from nhwingut tell it all:
McQueeg rally: PRE-SARAH
and ... POST SARAH
Sarah can show us how it's done. Click on image.
To the point article...
We need these every day...
Gov Sarah Palin is a lifelong proven conservative...
She shines a light on Mitt RINO Romney’s failure to even appear conservative...
Beside her Romney is shown up as the deceiving liberal that he is...
They have to get rid of her so that he might appear closer to the right ...
But even without Sarah in the picture,
if Romney was the last woman standing,
There would stil be a bono fided liberal trying to run for office on the Republican ticket...
George Romnbey ran in both camps for office when he ran for Gov of Michigan...
The Republicans had to demand he announce he was running on a Republican ticket...
“king” George was miffed at their check...
How dare they ????
He sabotaged the 1964 Republican convention because he didnt win...
(Goldwater 800 Romney 40)
and stabbed Goldwater and his good friend Reagan and the Republicans in the back by supporting Johnson...
Ronald Reagan gave an interview at the time in which he mentioned Romney and his actions..
Reagan was NEVER liked by the Romney family...
Mitt Romney was about 18 at the time..
George taught Mitt from the cradle to be a politician...
His brand of politician...
Mitt’s mother ran for US Senate in 1970 on an abortions-for-all platform...
Mitt Romney comes by his liberalism honestly...
It was in his Pablum...
I don’t know why Romney puts up with these folks who bash a candidate prior to even running
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Oh, he manages...
He just looks in the mirror at the number one offender and and says...
“Great hair”
Hmmmm....ya think so?
click on image....
... and even with the direct hits on this guy, the monster is still not dead, coming to a theatre near you in 2012.
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
...
Palin slanderers revealed as Romney-bots.
Perfect!
So, Romeny’s “living” in California now, and calling himself a Californian. Yeah right....
Hey, does she know we're here on FR and elsewhere on the web fighting for her? And does she ever check in here to see what's happening on the web front?
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