Posted on 10/11/2008 9:45:26 PM PDT by Bratch
With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign.
McCain has become alarmed about the fury unleashed by Sarah Palin, the moose-hunting “pitbull in lipstick”, against Senator Barack Obama. Cries of “terrorist” and “kill him” have accompanied the tirades by the governor of Alaska against the Democratic nominee at Republican rallies.
Mark Salter, McCain’s long-serving chief of staff, is understood to have told campaign insiders that he would prefer his boss, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, to suffer an “honourable defeat” rather than conduct a campaign that would be out of character – and likely to lose him the election.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Just take it off when parked.
I am working on a business deal with a family owned company (1940s) and the young lad I am working with I will be sending Sarah stickers to.
I reminded him to put the magnets on the back so he could remove the stickers at the Company and when parked.
I have an 8ftx4ft banner up on my fenced in yard. Noli perturbate though I am on freindly/nieghborly relations with almost all my Obama voting neighbors.
Hey, you!
It’s so good to “see” you!
As to your post, my money is on your hubby’s instincts.
Sarah was just last week in CA.
Her rally was overflowing with the peeps.
The nice lady who introduced her was the President of the CA chapter of NOW.
And, she endorsed McCain.
Have you been reading the Hillary forums? ;o)
I’m generally fine with letting McCain be McCain as long as he let’s Sarah be Sarah. She is terrific. McCain doesn’t have a chance unless the GOP has great turnout this election (as they had in 2004 but not 2000), and that’s what Sarah does for him.
Then Salter should be fired. He has no balls. Politics isn't for weenies.
To another person - Dana Milbank is a known Obama stooge.
How often do you read the Times of London? I read it at least twice a week. The financial stuff is okay. The paper is NOT conservative anymore. The politics and lifestyle stuff has a PC and semi-hard left bias like the BBC. The article had a real anti-McCain bias - the sky is falling tone to it. It is blantant propaganda. As bad or probably worse than the BBC or Guardian. I know BBC papers very well. Sun, News of the World, Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Times of London, UK Telegraph, plus BBC web site. The Times crap gets pushed out to Ireland, NZ, Oz, and Canada.
The paper totally changed years ago when Murdoch bought them. Murdoch backed Blair who destroyed the UK dosmestically. Open borders = Englandistan.
The only conservative papers in the UK are the UK Telegraph and the Daily Mail. The Telegraph aka ToryGraph has been slipping lately and moving leftward.
Murdoch global enterprise of Fox has Middle Eastern Arab investors.
The Times reporter took your worst fears and through in unnamed sources and one out of context quote to string together a bunch of crap.
Fall for progaganda if you must.
Word of advice to McCain: do NOT attempt to hold back Sarah. You did it once with those foolish interviews.
Word of advice to Sarah: Sarah, be yourself. You didn't get where you are now by playing nicey nice.
I haven't used the PIMP suffix to ROTFL in a long-ass time.
I nominate this for "Comment of the Day".
People in WA are pretty close to AK people. Sarah could pick WA off. A LOT Of Hillary people hate Obama.
That's not what I heard... I heard you did it sot the other women could get some attention at last!
Hey, I'm from the south... I'm culturally incapable of passing a chance to compliment a Lady!
The operative words are “letting Sarah be Sarah.”
I think she spooks Obama.
(I bet that’s raaaacist.)
LOL
She is the best thing to happen in this election year, and further down the road.
I think folks will turn out in droves to vote FOR Sarah, and AGAINST Obama.
One thing about Dole and Bush 1’s second campaign. Neither of them got NRA endorsements due to the Brady Bill. Bush 1 got it the first race but not the second.
Every Repub endorsed since 1980 by the NRA has won. McCain got it on Friday. Largely because Sarah is a lifetime NRA member and is loved by the NRA.
She does have a following here and alot of people here already heard of her before McCain picked her as his VP, with WA being the closest state to Alaska, geographically speaking. The Democrats I mentioned earlier that were either sitting out the election or thinking about voting for McCain were scorned Hillary supporters.
Thank you.
Born in East Texas myself.
I am tellin yah...The Hillary loyalists hate hate hate Obama.
They want payback. They want their party back. If Obama somehow wins (doubtful) - their party is gone forever.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/10/021750.php
It's signed by twenty senators, all Republican. The bill made it out of the banking commitee on a party line vote, but failed on the floor. The democrat opposition was obstreperous enough to stop it cold.
Nary a word of this story by the candidate, even though he's the principal good guy. If I were serious about smacking a dem. opponent upside the head with something until he melted, it would be with this. Forget Ayers, Wright, et.al. But he won't, so what do we do?
I'm too big a dummy to hyperlink this, so copy'N'paste in the address bar, and read the commentary. The writing is much better than I can do.
Exactly. McCain cannot let Obama or his adoring media dictate to him or to Sarah what he can or cannot say about Obama. If they do, he’s toast.
Every Repub endorsed since 1980 by the NRA has won. McCain got it on Friday. Largely because Sarah is a lifetime NRA member and is loved by the NRA.
Link to the NRA endorsement of John McCain and Sarah Palin - http://www.nrapvf.org/news/Read.aspx?ID=11654&T=1
See post 166. I couldn’t possibly respond any better than Rintense did.
Well, I said months ago that I hadn’t seen this much youthful enthusiasm in a presidential campaign since the McGovern campaign in 1972.
And that worked out Real Well For Him, didn’t it?
You’ve got that right!!!
Many of those that feel that Obama stole the nomination from Hillary will either vote for McCain or stay home.
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