Posted on 10/27/2008 2:38:41 PM PDT by DBCJR
Some aides to Sen. John McCain say they weren't happy that running mate Sarah Palin went off script Sunday...Palin deviated from her prepared remarks to talk about her wardrobe controversy Sunday.
... A senior McCain adviser told CNN those comments "were not the remarks we sent to her plane." ...A Palin aide said that the governor clearly felt like she had to say something to defend herself, because "that's really not who she is."
... sources told CNN that long-brewing tensions between Palin and key aides to McCain were on the rise.
McCain advisers suggested that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue."
McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls -- used to attack a candidate's opponent -- "irritating" even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan.
A McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.
"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," this McCain adviser said. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party... ...But this Palin source acknowledged that Palin is trying to take more control of her message, pointing to an impromptu news conference on a Colorado tarmac last week.
CNN contributor and Republican strategist Ed Rollins said Palin was "mishandled" during the earlier part of the campaign, and as a result, "she's become a target of a lot of ridicule."
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The media keeps trying to stir the pot. They can go to hell to put it nicely.
Are these the same Romneybot handlers we are hearing about? I’m glad she is going “rogue.”
McCain told Brokaw last Sunday that Palin didn’t need defending. End of story.
CNN crapaganda....so what else is new ?
Can we please stop posting this story... it’s like the 10th time I’ve seen it since yesterday...
It’s BS!!!!
To the ones who complained
Tough titty said the kitty
2 words for CNN.
Blow me!!!
There was an article earlier today that indicated these “McCain campaing insiders” who keep feeding info to the MSM are actually Romney operatives working on their own.
“She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.”
So, she doesn’t trust her family? I find this statement to be highly dubious.
Any McCain “advisor” who leaks this kind of divisive, demoralizing crap to CNN should be fired.
Unless, of course, CNN is just making it up out of whole cloth. Wouldn’t put it past them.
Must be a slow news day, huh CNN? Why don't you run another Michael Moore clip? I hear those are really pulling in the votes for Obama.
“Aides,” “advisors,” “sources,” and not a one of them with an actual name.
More CNN BS.
Go Sarah, GO !
This is a putrescent load. Didn’t get any truer in the last 10 threads either.
Show Me State!!!
The Middle Digit!!!
The political world is absolutely full of faggot staffers like this source who think they’re right 100% of the time, even though they’ve never had a real job in their life and the average voter would find them nauseating after 2 minutes. Palin is a real person who has good instincts and should be given general guidance, not word-for-word scripts to follow. If McCain’s “people” don’t realize this, then they are just as incompetent as this campaign has shown them to be. The ONLY thing McCain has going for him is that Sarah Palin could kick every Democrat’s ass in America and is a great conservative. She is the only reason he’s even in the race at this point and if he wins it can be attributed to her.
Reagan went off script with “Mr. $orbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
These aides have apparently forgotten that THEY aren’t running. Talk about egos! Why do they think she has rallied the base? Because she is REAL, not BS/aide packaged DC garbage. (Yes, I am calling these aides that.)
You go, Mrs. Palin!
Sheesh.
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