Posted on 10/26/2008 4:42:22 AM PDT by DocT111
Sarah Palin is the rogue elephant in the GOP war room.
The maverick mom is distancing herself from John McCain and blowing off the advice of senior Republican aides, convinced they're damaging her reputation and ruining the campaign.
Things have gotten so tense between Palin and her traveling staff, an insider said, that she's overruling their advice - which was evident last week when she ignored GOP aides piling into waiting cars at a Colorado event and strolled over to the press corps for an impromptu talk.
In speeches, Palin has contradicted her running mate's positions on issues, telling a Christian news outlet last week that she would support a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, which McCain opposes.
Though McCain once said he considered Obama's relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to be an old issue, this month Palin said, "I don't know why that association isn't discussed more."
Palin also publicly stated that she thought it was a mistake for the campaign to give up on Michigan, and that she thought voters were annoyed by robocalls - which McCain uses extensively.
The last straw for the vice-presidential candidate was the raft of criticism from the $150,000 worth of high-end clothes the Republican National Committee bought her, a campaign source said.
Palin showed how much that gaffe got under her skin yesterday at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, telling the crowd she'd stepped off the plane and donned a warm, cream-colored jacket.
"And it's my own jacket," she said.
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Umpteenth post on this tripe. Since when is CNN using anonymously sourced POLITICO BS as a source?
Its classic political warfare, paint your opponents as in-fighting. Its bullshit.
Unnamed “insiders”...sure. Just trying to portray Palin as a loose canon to scare the sheeple and keep them from voting for McCain/Palin.
If it wasn’t for Palin McCain would be down 20 points in the polls. So if there is even a “bit” of truth in these rumors, I say, “You go girl...trust your instincts.”
This only makes me love her (from a distance) more. Everyone hates robocalls.
I don’t blame Sarah for getting pissed. They’ve mishandled her from the get go. The ding dongs should realize the only reason McCain has a snowball chance in he** of winning this thing is because of Sarah Palin. I’m glad she’s standing up.
Correct. And, they are to this item on the list because their internal polling has shown nothing else has worked and they are going to lose.
Backbiting and disinformation by people obviously terrified to death she will make the difference in this election.
There is no truth to this story.
A lot of this is garbage but I would also bet that their are a few RINO advisors who that she rubs the wrong way and are throwing prissy-poo, peeved little fits.
LOL but its not news when Joe Biden basically endorses JOHN McCain by saying there will be a crisis if Obama is elected?
PRAVDA has come to America.
I think that this is an excellent strategy if at all true.
You know, both are mavericks.
I haven’t seen it as true, but it really doesn’t seem odd that the two people on the ticket could have different opinions on some issues.
“makes me love her more”
Me, too. I certainly would agree with her on more of these issues than McCain.
I refuse to vote for liberal McCain...But he’s part of the Palin package...I’m stuck with him...
More Palin, less McCain.
Where is the ZOT thrower?
Sounds to me like a number of the campaign aids want to lose the election. ....or maybe it's all just a bunch of hooey.
Yesterday it was a moose, are pit bulls scared of mooses, or do mooses stomp on pit bulls? What do mooses think about mavericks.
Meanwhile, Flap Jaw Joe and The naive One are getting along just peachy, doncha you just know.
I go with hooey. The dems and their msm water carriers are losing and they know it.
Otherwise, I'd be stuck just voting against Obambambambi et.al.
If anything she said is supposed to be a negative, I must have missed it.
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