Why wasn’t there a document dump on Sarah after the announcement? That would have quelled the criticism.
I have a feeling the ‘Schmidt Storm’ anticipated this. Those Wile E Coyote Democrats can’t help themselves.
Why wasn’t there a document dump on Sarah after the announcement? That would have quelled the criticism.
No, it wouldn't have "quelled the criticism. instead, it would have made the criticism (and rebuttal) the entirety of the Palin story from the get-go, overwhelming the boffo speech she gave on Friday.McCain and Palin discussed this in detail before her debut as VP nominee. Including, obviously, the strategy for handling it. Which was to make her big splash on Friday, let it set in, and then do the "data dump." They knew this kind of tempest in a teapot would result, but spoiling her initial introduction with it would have been d u m b.
IMHO the next move is to explain all of the above explicitly (I have inferred it from the known facts) - and say that anyone who jumped on the "pregnant daughter" case had not revealed anything that the American people didn't instinctively know - other than the fact that people talking about Bristol are self righteous jerks.
Palin will have every mother in the country on her side in 15 seconds, and after that it will be all "go ahead, talk about Bristol. You lose votes wholesale with every word."