The Great Palin Panic of 2008 (McCain Aides: She Lost Control of Her Public Image) BARF

The Atlantic ^ | Monday, September 29, 2008 | Marc Ambinder

[impeachedrapist]

Good grief.

[Senator Goldwater]

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.

[This Just In]

It’s called projecting, folks. Projecting. Or perhaps, wishful thinking.

[RexBeach]

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

[MattinNJ]

Yeah, OK MSM. Meanwhile she is in Columbus before a huge crowd chanting USA,USA,USA.

[TexasCajun]

Go Sarah Go!

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.

[InsensitiveConservative]

‘The sky is falling’ said, Henny Penny.

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[Rodm]

BS

[NTHockey]

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

[mojito]

It's not too late to turn this around.

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.

[svcw]

I find it amazing that staying on point is a negative.
The only people calling for her to step down are pseudo conservatives and what there are five.
JM just needs to let Sarah be Sarah.
The Katy interview was the most edited piece of garbage I have ever seen. If you see the raw footage Palin did fine.
I mean Katy would not even refer to her as Governor. Why Palin is interviewing with Katy again is a mystery.

[fantom]

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 .

[McGruff]

Romneybots strike again.

[impeachedrapist]

The McCain campaign is doing a postively dreadful job handling its most precious commodity: Sarah Palin.

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.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

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.

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.

[InterceptPoint]

Mr. Chairman: The State of Florida casts 60,000 votes AGAINST the proposition.

[johniegrad]

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.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Need you input here, dude!

[Albion Wilde]

The leftist mind-reading and projection machine just won't stop, will it? These people are so possessed — if they don't know something negative, they just make it up and spew it.