Posted on 10/27/2008 12:17:01 AM PDT by CutePuppy
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.
MORE: Palin Has Future Even If McCain Loses
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.
A McCain insider told The Post that relations between Palin and some of the campaign aides with her have soured. "She's lost faith with the staff."
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Tell you what,.. If McCain does win this election, it’s going to be entertaining watching Palin fight for conservatism against the “Maverick” for the next 4 years!
This is the lamest attempt to divide and conquer I have ever seen. Nice try MSM
I think there is a lot of truth in this article....I hope the country club repubs don’t cut her throat after the election.
MSM piling on. Other stories comfirm this is way exaggerated.
New York Post is just another liberal rag just like the NYT but with shorter news stories.
The NY Post endorsed McCain.
I don’t care who wrote the story. I’d call this good news.
Already been debunked — the mainstream media is in all-out desperation mode.
Someone's skin is a little too thin. And someone forgot who is the candidate and who is the hired help.
She's a warrior. This isn't her first campaign.
Wright is relevant. He is a Marxist. Obama’s religion for 20 years, Black Liberation Theology, is Marxist. This is where Obama’s Spread the Wealth beliefs come from.
She’s reaching back across the aisle to her own party.
:-). Love Sarah.
Go, Sarah!
My advice to Sarah is to continue to ignore "the staff". This is apparently the same "staff" which refuses to show America, via a massive TV ad buy, that the next Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces could be the Number One most liberal member of the Senate, a shiny little turd of a "community organizer" named Barack Hussein Obama.
Sarah, definitely do distance yourself....
if truth be known every candidate(s) sits down with his inner circle of advisors from time to time to develop tactics and map out a short-term and long-term strategy for the campaign. They all have strong opinions and they digest all the info before them; they all have ideas on how to proceed but it comes down to the approach the candidate(s)want to take and the emphasis they want to place on a topic. Back to Sarah. She may disagree with certain approaches and what to emphasize but as the candidate she has to remain loyal to McCain and not stray off the reservation, which she hasn’t. Whether to leave Michigan is an ‘inside baseball’ question, whether to talk about Wright is a basic disagreement with McCain and not the staff. Whether to talk to the press in an impromptu fashion is her choice. To accuse her of going ‘rogue’ because of this is pretty extreme. Actually Sarah has been on message for the entire campaign. Who has been the ‘rogue’ has been Joe Biden. This is a futile attempt at the divide and conquer strategy.
Let’s voluntarily stop posting this bushwah. We’re only giving it credibility.
While I’d be willing to accept that there may be friction with staffers (there always is), I don’t think there is any real friction between the candidates.
I am certain that this crap is published with only one intention: to discourage and depress turnout. These people who write this BS do not have our interests at heart.
Those country club Republicans (just like country club Democrats) despised Ronald Reagan. The CCRs only tolerated him because he was so popular and got votes. The CCRs are no friends of conservatives.
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