Posted on 09/29/2008 10:01:03 AM PDT by kristinn
Gov. Sarah Palin has lost control of her public image, several top-level McCain advisers said this weekend, and even a baseline performance in Thursday's debate with Joe Biden may be too late to recover it.
The decision to sequester Palin from the national political press corps was made with the assumption that the afterglow from her convention speech would last; a month later, even some Republicans are beginning to have a less favorable opinion of her.
Her knowledge of policy has seemed at times no more than inch deep, and even admirers have complained that her penchant for returning to talking points sounds artificial. Several times the campaign has had to clean up her remarks for her, such as on Saturday, when she hinted at a view of U.S.-Pakistani relations that was closer to Barack Obama's.
Aides questioned why CBS's Katie Couric was given a second interview with Palin after Palin's responses were ridiculed.
One McCain aide complained that too few surrogates are making the affirmative case for her -- she has defenders, to be sure, but they're sparse and they're generally defending her from specific charges. Aside from a single interview with Sean Hannity, she hasn't appeared on a single talk radio show, hasn't held a single conference call with conservative activists, nor she has participated in a telephone call with conservative bloggers. In turn, these conservatives have largely stopped rallying to her defense.
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Instead of unsheathing Palin, the strategy this week is to attack Joe Biden and try to drive a wedge between him and Obama, another McCain aide said.
(Excerpt) Read more at marcambinder.theatlantic.com ...
Good grief.
She just needs to relax, acknowledge who she is and not try to be something she isn’t, and let her authenticity come through.
Dressing her up to be Kissinger in drag is not the answer. Let her get angry with one of these drive-by airheads.
It’s called projecting, folks. Projecting. Or perhaps, wishful thinking.
Two things to consider here:
1) Remember, this is “The Atlantic.” Pretty liberal;
2) The McCain campaign is doing a postively dreadful job handling its most precious commodity: Sarah Palin.
-Rex
Yeah, OK MSM. Meanwhile she is in Columbus before a huge crowd chanting USA,USA,USA.
Sarah scares them to death!
ABC's Good Morning America had their morning "Hate Sarah" hit piece as well.
For their soundbites they called upon some fat, ugly feminazi and some fag from The Dallas Morning News.
‘The sky is falling’ said, Henny Penny.
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BS
To all the harpies and naysayers:
Geraldine Ferraro ran in 1984. It has taken 22 years for another woman to run for national office. How many of you are willing to wait ANOTHER 22 years?
Signed,
A man who respects women
Her handlers have screwed up big time.
It's time to let Palin be Palin.
It's time to let the pit bull off her leash and let her rip on the MSM that has slandered her and her family and played a nasty game of gotcha journalism.
Victim number 1 needs to be Joe Biden in Thursday's debate.
She is being mishandled . Set up to fail. Be herself tell it like it is and with any luck Mac will fire her and she can save a brilliant career. Or she can talk about earmarks and clean coal .
Please. The McCain camp (and I ain't no John McCain fan) hasn't done anything egregious or even remotely wrong with handling Gov. Palin. The problem is simple. The media is doing everything it can to trash her. And, based on many of the responses around here, I'd say they're at least somewhat successful.
Stupid is as stupid does. Not only have they failed to hurl the Rats' personal smears back at them, but they are over coaching her and trying to stuff her full of trivia because they are so afraid of the "gotcha" questions (like when Bush did not know who Musharraf was in 2000).
Give her only what she needs and unleash her, I say, and let her do the rest.
Mr. Chairman: The State of Florida casts 60,000 votes AGAINST the proposition.
When are these dopes going to understand that Palin’s greatest asset is her ability to mobilize the base? If she steals some votes from Hilary supporters fine but that’s not why she is on the ticket. How she plays to the average SNL viewer is not going to relevant to this election. These libs are so self important that they think she’s supposed to win them over when they would never vote for a Republican to begin with.
Need you input here, dude!
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