Posted on 09/06/2008 10:27:36 AM PDT by bigbob
At 5:20 A.M. Friday, August 29th, Bill McAllister awoke to the ringing of his home phone. McAllister had turned his BlackBerry off before heading to bed. He usually leaves it on, but "It was a slow news day here," he says with a laugh.
McAllister, a former television news reporter in Anchorage, had become Alaska governor Sarah Palin's press secretary just two months earlier, in June, after covering her administration. At one point, he'd even done a story on her vice presidential prospects. "She really didn't think it was in the realm of likely," says McAllister.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
The maverick candidate decided he wanted a maverick veep.
The liberals in the media (but I repeat myself) are going nuts.....they can’t attack Palin’s experience without opening themselves up to questions about Obama’s.
This selection is just brilliant.
“McCain had called Palin “a remarkable woman” and said that he planned to consult her as he reexamined his position on oil exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Palin is for drilling; McCain—for now—is against it. “
Yes! Hopefully she can get him to change his position a support drilling in ANWAR!
"One adviser, tasked with taking the temperature of the conservative base, had strongly made the case to McCain that it would be a disaster for the party and that the base would revolt,"
Give that adviser a raise. Smart.
A raise? How tough is it to log onto FR and do a search for “McCain Lieberman”?
I do not care how she was picked or why she was picked - it was the correct choice.
LOL the night before she was announced, myself and several others saw the post from another FReeper that had mysterious air flights between Alaska, Arizona, and Ohio... It was fun to watch... Sort of like being in on a very cool secret... The overnight talk shows like Kevin James were still talking about Romney and Pawlenty... Even when Bill Bennett came on at 3:00 AM Ca time, nothing was certain to them, but during his show, and Laura Ingraham that followed, it began to build. By the end of her show, Laura was nearly jumping out of her chair she was so excited...
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It looks like a lot of top Republicans are out of touch, if they thought McCain would not have had much trouble picking Lieberman. It would have divided the party, driven away a lot of people who were only going to vote for McCain without enthusiasm, and left the party with no clear frontrunner for 2012 or 2016, the way that GWB’s choice of Cheney did. Whatever his good qualities, Lieberman is not a Republican.
Very true!
LIEberman, Pawlenty, Ridge....what HORRIBLE picks they would have been......McCain would have gotten less than Bush 41.....under 38%.
Thanks for the link! Doesn’t work with Firefox but IE is ok.
I was on that thread! I stayed up way past bedtime, too, hitting refresh every couple of minutes.
Can you believe it has benn just barely a week since McCain announced Palin was his VP choice? Talk about “that was the week that was!”
Stoopid speel-cheeker!
Frankly, I ready to go with divine providence.
Thank you for the post. I was wondering how it went down and how they kept a lid on the secret.
Palin/McCain 2008!
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I’ve had the same thought.
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