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Rift Cracks 'Demoralized' McCain Campaign
ABC ^ | 10/27/08 | GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS

Posted on 10/27/2008 8:50:57 PM PDT by pissant

The McCain campaign is definitely demoralized right now. The blame game has begun.

There is no question that there is a rift between Sarah Palin's camp and that of John McCain inside the Republican campaign, sources tell ABC News.

Watch George Stephanopoulos on "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET on ABC

And you are seeing people within the McCain campaign starting to look to the future.

Not only Palin, but many of the McCain staffers, as well, are circulating their resumes and pointing the finger.

Whenever people in the campaign are starting to worry more about their own reputations rather than whether they're going to win in seven days, there is a significant problem.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 2008; abcnews; drivebymedia; georgestephanopoulos; mralexandrawentworth; palin; rino; wishfulthinking
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To: piytar

He’s probably trying to get us to brace ourselves for the possibility of The One actually winning.

I well remember the utter shock, horror and dismay when us conservatives were so soundly trounced in the last election, while most of Free Republic assured us “the election’s in the bag, the GOP will win handily, the polls are all wrong.”

I believed what they were saying, the polls turned out to be correct, and we were utterly decimated.

The pattern is repeating itself again...the polls are telling us Obama’s going to trounce us, and Freepers are saying McCain’s gonna win.

I don’t want to blithely believe them again, only to wake up under a Obama Soviet Socialist Republic the next morning, so if there are anti-pollyanna posts telling us to brace ourselves, I say...let them post.

Ed


101 posted on 10/27/2008 11:54:58 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: Enchante
I agree. I don't know how they ever figure out who is trustworthy. Look at that turncoat Scott McClellan.

The fact that she worked at CBS with Couric is a bit suspect. At the very least, the fact that she set Palin up with an interview with Couric right out of the box makes me question her judgment. None of us would have scheduled Palin with Couric at that time.

102 posted on 10/28/2008 12:22:41 AM PDT by redgirlinabluestate
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To: pissant
My very high level anonymous sources within the Obama campaign all say they know they are going to lose by double digits. They say there have even been fistfights breaking out on a regular basis and they are having an extremely hard time not committing suicide. They say there is serious tension among Barry and his wife, and they are considering filing for separation. My anonymous, deep inside sources also say that Barry is thinking of getting an apartment with Larry Sinclair.ok... two can play this game.
103 posted on 10/28/2008 1:18:03 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: ncalburt

You called it Burt. W strikes again.


104 posted on 10/28/2008 1:28:08 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Sir_Ed
You are right Ed. In 2006, a lot of the Bush loving contingent here told us all was well. This continued right up to the hour when we lost our shorts on election night. Then they blamed us for the defeat afterward, saying we didn't vote. In my district the GOP pulled the money out when their hand picked Rino was defeated by a real conservative in the primary. They actually let a liberal Democrat feminist ditz win the congressional seat in a majority Republican district. They might not beat her this year with a Rino candidate on the ballot. The guy running against her vows to “reach across the aisle.” Swell. That inspires confidence.

So now we have nominated another Rino for president who we all have been to hold our noses and vote for. Sarah Palin is the best thing he has going for him and he has all but hidden her, or fed her to the sharks in edited interviews.

We are always told that Rino’s are the bomb, and that they will attract scads of Democrats and Indy's in the general election. So we nominate them. Then they proceed to act just like Democrats and the people choose the genuine article.

I'll sadly do the deed again and hold my nose. And we'll probably have the same type of election night as when the Rino’s nominated Bob Dole and told us he was “electable.” After that he sold Viagra on TV and played the anonymous comic on American Express commercials.

The Bush/McCain contingent go nuts if we question their crappy president and candidate. I'm going to be three for three voting for these two dreks, but I'm supposed to kiss them too? That's my pre-election vent. Now it's off to vote straight GOP again. Very sad.

105 posted on 10/28/2008 1:51:27 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: pissant

There’s no reason to be demoralized. I think the polls are wrong, and we won’t know until election day. One week away, it does not make sense to get demoralized.


106 posted on 10/28/2008 2:04:42 AM PDT by Rocky
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To: Luke21

Wow, what a right-on post!

How sad about the betrayal of all those conservatives in elections both primary and general when the GOP pulls its support, preferring a liberal they can deal and schmooze with to a real conservative GOP candidate.

Thanks for the reply, I totally agree with you.

Ed


107 posted on 10/28/2008 2:40:27 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: pissant

ABC = BS...all the time. I wouldn’t believe ABC if they told me the pope was catholic.


108 posted on 10/28/2008 2:43:09 AM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: pissant
Georgie porgie is still peddling himself for the DemocRATS.

Hard to be a whore out there right now.

109 posted on 10/28/2008 4:01:47 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: pissant

I say, let the Obama supporters think that McCain/Palin campaign is in trouble with strife in the campaign.. the Obama supporters will see this and go YAHOOO and think Obama is going to win .. so they will just stay home.


110 posted on 10/28/2008 4:10:22 AM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: purplelobster
Let’s see - a few days ago the Politico blog wrote a story with an imaginary unnamed source who allegedly said that Palin has gone “Rogue.” The following day this is incorporated into the Obama staff talking points and issued to the Media outlets, who then embellish this into an imaginary divide-and-conquer war between McCain and Palin.

If there’s any schism between candidates I would say it’s between the Obama and Biden staffs. After Biden “went Rogue” and claimed that the U.S. would be subject to an attack by foreign countries if Obama were elected, Obama took the extraordinary step of calling a press conference to minimize the damage of Biden’s “rhetorical flourishes.” Further after Biden is in over his head in the Barbara West interview, the Obama staff takes another extraordinary step by forbidding Biden to have any further interviews in anything other than the most controlled circumstances. My sense is that the Obama staffers are coming down hard on the Biden staffers. Why else would flunkies like Stephenopoulis be going to such extremes as in this article?

Well put.

111 posted on 10/28/2008 4:16:34 AM PDT by snowsislander
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To: Chances Are

Good one. LOL!!!


112 posted on 10/28/2008 4:45:46 AM PDT by conservativepoet (The chief aim of order within Christianity is to make room for good things to romp and play.)
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To: pissant
I am going to use profanity, because it is called for:

BULLSHIT.

113 posted on 10/28/2008 7:16:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Public policy should never become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Ike Eisenhower)
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To: pissant

We basically have Pravda in America. This is part of a “narrative” that the MSM wants to tell. Don’t confuse them with the facts. They want to portray Obama as confident and victorious while contrasting this with the McCain/Palin camp being in disarray.

They won’t mention the Obama socialism tape. They won’t mention the other information about Obama that has surfaced in the last few days. They won’t mention the polls that have McCain within striking distance.

This is all being done to demoralize those of us who know what is at stake. Don’t give into them. This election is very winnable for John McCain. Don’t ever give up.


114 posted on 10/28/2008 8:08:09 AM PDT by Palin4ever
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To: pissant
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115 posted on 10/28/2008 8:14:22 AM PDT by ~Vor~ (It is better to shoot for the stars and miss than to aim for the gutter and hit it...Anonymous)
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To: pissant
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116 posted on 10/28/2008 8:15:45 AM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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