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 ...
“I’ll believe McCain is “tussling” with Palin when I see heel marks on his forehead.”
Now we’re talking :)
You've got that right. I've got a hunch that the race is a lot closer than the polls and Obama loving media indicate and the race will come down to turnout.
If I read this correctly, either way McCain looses?
What the HELL kind of advice or objective is that?
McCain needs to fire this pansy a$$ if I am to believe this quote.
LOL
That explains a lot! They ought to quote some of the wing-nuts at Team Obama rallies! Goldwater wanted to nuke the little girl picking the daisy and Rush Linbow hates black football players. ;0)
Not looking for online friends joe.
It’s just the Internet.
My life is more whole than that
I seek winners not whiners!!!
Defeat the Marxist BO!
EXACTLY!
He promised to name names, and make then famous.
The FM/FM issue is what he needs to press.
Don’t sweat it. This story is a fabrication by Barry’s friends in that electoral powerhouse known as Europe.
Kerry was up 5% at this time in the last campaign, and Gore was up 11% at this time in 2000.
Polls don’t matter.
The mob mentality at that townhall which gave the media their whole new “McCain Campaign making people angry” storyline wasn’t about Ayers anyway. The big story was about the guy who was steamed over the socialist take over of our country.
Oh balls. Good little marxist is spewing the party line. Fear us obama MSM, we're coming to vote in numbers you have never seen before......
I saw Sarah’s speech today, where among other things she raised the abortion issue and completely eviscerated Obama on this issue (including mentioning the dreaded word “infanticide.”). In my opinion, she is by far the best communicator on either ticket. She has the powerful persuasive ability of a person who combines formidable public speaking skills with the right core values and the common sense rationality of a person who knows the truth and has the courage to speak it out loud. Neither McCain, Obama, nor Biden can match it or even come close. It is almost unfair to criticize McCain using Sarah Palin as the standard.
Well this NG either has Obama shills or chicken little defeatists who never did GOTV for a GOP candidate.
Go to McCain-Palin HQ in your town and volunteer. I made 2000 + calls for Bush in 2004 because I loathed Kerry. Unless you volunteer then stuff the freaking deafeatism and hand ringing on a story that is blatant unsourced propaganda.
Some mo*ons are falling right into crappy Times of London disinformation trap.
Also while you are hand wringing, get your credit card out and donate some dough to McCain like I have been doing.
Completely agree.
It's worse than that. The quote itself is laundered. Nobody is claiming to have heard it.
The punch line from this so-called story is delivered by a Drive-By reporter who heard this gossip from God-knows-who, who heard it from "campaign insiders", who herd it supposedly from Mark Salter who herd it supposedly from John McCain.
Who are these so-called "campaign insiders"? Even the reporter doesn't claim to have gotten this so-called quote directly from the so-called "insiders".
The entire story is pathetic.
This is pathetic reporting - our country is truly being stolen.
It was documented and reported on Breitbart.tv that the people who were screaming the threats were OBAMA SUPPORTERS outside the even in Florida and NOT Republican supporters.
They could also be Agent Provocateurs ala the Soviet Union - which is really, the Neo-Soviet Union now under the Self-Avowed Communist Putin (who released remarks today from a COMMUNIST PARTY MEETING).
Regardless, the press is complicit in covering up the truth about Barack Obama.
On that we’ll agree.
I erred when strocked out the original note.
Hang loose, bro.
We got 2 winners in Senator McCain and Governor Palin.
This whole piece is designed as a set-up to get good folks who support the McCain/Palin ticket jawing at each other.
No--they are creating it out of thin air.
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