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
All the Mitt supporters here promised that their critiques of Palin were honest and simply in our best interest to keep an embarrassing idiot from getting the nomination.
They lied to me, a simple moron. If you can't trust your Elite Country Club RINO Republican betters...
Well I just don't know what to believe any more....
Maybe your boy ain't all smiles and whistle.
So what about a response to the facts about Mitt and his people?
The camera loves her too.
The question is, redpoll, does all this crap affect Sarah.
If I were she, i’d be tempted to say “screw ‘em all. It isn’t worth it.”
But then again, that’s the reaction they want from her, isn’t it?
Can’t contribute funds right now, our finances are in shambles. All I can do is pray for her and our country.
Re the cartoon...LOVE IT!
My Girl big-time bump!
56% + at this point!!
Nice talking points everyone.
Not “talking points” but rather the truth.
*So, Romeny’s “living” in California now*
He lives around 10 miles from me here in San Diego.
MittWitt must like to throw away money because he doesn’t
stand a chance in the primaries.
You remind me of the folks that a Russian caller described once to Rush Limbaugh -- naive Soviet citizens who just didn't know why their hero Stalin put up with such horrible inequities that happened under his policies. "If he only knew these things were going on," they'd lament.
Hello, naps? Romney puts up with these folks because their kind of behavior fits with his MO. It was his MO before Palin was even on the radar, and it will be his MO as long as he is in politics.
Wake up. Romney is BAD NEWS.
I agree 100%. We need to fight fire with fire but, frankly, pubs are generally gutless and politically tone deaf and stupid.
Please ping me if you get an answer.
I really get the feeling that Sarah Palin and her family are going it alone. She NEEDS to know that there are millions of us out here willing to pull out of the line, and run stalwart downfield interference for her.
Mark McKinnon is a former Democrat, who switched parties to work on the Bush campaign, and whose aide stole the Bush debate prep tape and sent it to the Gore campaign. Then, while working for McCain, promised not to produce any negative ads against Obama, if he won the Democratic primary.
Now, why would anyone be surprised if he turned on Sarah Palin?
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