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McCain camp trying to scapegoat Palin
Yahoo News ^ | 10/30/08 | Roer Simon

Posted on 10/30/2008 7:17:48 AM PDT by Roberts

John McCain's campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday.

And it has decided on Sarah Palin.

In recent days, a McCain “adviser” told Dana Bash of CNN: “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone.”

Imagine not taking advice from the geniuses at the McCain campaign. What could Palin be thinking?

Also, a “top McCain adviser” told Mike Allen of Politico that Palin is “a whack job.”

Maybe she is. But who chose to put this “whack job” on the ticket? Wasn’t it John McCain? And wasn’t it his first presidential-level decision?

And if you are a 72-year-old presidential candidate, wouldn’t you expect that your running mate’s fitness for high office would come under a little extra scrutiny? And, therefore, wouldn’t you make your selection with care? (To say nothing about caring about the future of the nation?)

McCain didn’t seem to care that much. McCain admitted recently on national TV that he “didn’t know her well at all” before he chose Palin.

But why not? Why didn’t he get to know her better before he made his choice?

It’s not like he was rushed. McCain wrapped up the Republican nomination in early March. He didn’t announce his choice for a running mate until late August.

Wasn’t that enough time for McCain to get to know Palin? Wasn’t that enough time for his crackerjack “vetters” to investigate Palin’s strengths and weaknesses, check through records and published accounts, talk to a few people, and learn that she was not only a diva but a whack job diva?

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; anonomoussources; bias; bogus; divideandconquer; icallbs; incanforobama; leftkook; mccain; mediabias; medialies; moonbat; oppolitico; palin; zot
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To: VanDeKoik; illiac
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61 posted on 10/30/2008 7:34:15 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Roberts
Wasn’t that enough time for McCain to get to know Palin? Wasn’t that enough time for his crackerjack “vetters” to investigate Palin’s strengths and weaknesses, check through records and published accounts, talk to a few people, and learn that she was not only a diva but a whack job diva?

All of which blabbering shows an admission against interest and proves that Roger Simon is a liar and makes stuff up.

62 posted on 10/30/2008 7:34:17 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: ZULU

If mcCain loses, Palin should announce at 12:01AM on 11/5 that “You betcha Rev Wright will NOT be off the table in 2012.”

The idea to blackout the one issue that would have allowed him to walk into the WH is truly bizzarre.


63 posted on 10/30/2008 7:34:23 AM PDT by nhwingut (,)
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To: Roberts

This is more fluff from the lying 4th estate.


64 posted on 10/30/2008 7:34:50 AM PDT by FrankR (Liberalism is communism, by the drink. O'Rourke)
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To: Roberts

Not real journalism. Is this guy an editorialist or is this supposed to be a news article? He must’ve flunked out of journalism school.


65 posted on 10/30/2008 7:35:01 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: Roberts
Who the hell believes a single verb printed by the Obama media whores at POlitico!
The POLitico needs to be investigated as a Soros front group.
Its very odd how this OBama front group just suddenly appeared before the 2006 election cycle when Sorso and Saunder was quoted as wanted to set up Dem front group media outlets !
66 posted on 10/30/2008 7:35:21 AM PDT by ncalburt
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To: mlocher

> Yet another hit piece using unnamed sources to describe tension in the McCain camp just before the election.

Somehow I am reminded of Jayson Blair. I wonder what he is doing these days? Maybe he’s fabricating some of these “stories”...


67 posted on 10/30/2008 7:35:52 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: dandiegirl

Coach Bob Knight, when one of the beat guys covering IU wrote something that included an anonymous source, went into a press conference and said, “I have it on great authority from an anonymous source that you prefer sexual relations with a goat.”


68 posted on 10/30/2008 7:36:44 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: silverleaf

Its a POLITICO hit piece !
This DNC operative Roger Simon is a OBAMA- POLITICO operative !


69 posted on 10/30/2008 7:37:03 AM PDT by ncalburt
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To: Roberts

This is all media nonsense. Anything to create an impression of “unrest” in the McCain camp due to the “possibility” of losing the election.

What a bunch of crap.

In the meantime, I’m sure the Obama-Biden love affair is one for the ages!


70 posted on 10/30/2008 7:37:16 AM PDT by buckleyconservative
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To: Roberts
I don't believe it!

BTW, if we pitted Palin against Biden she'd win in a land slide!

sw

71 posted on 10/30/2008 7:39:13 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife )"The Lord is my Shepard..I Shall Not Want")
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To: Jeff Head

Pics didn’t come through for me.


72 posted on 10/30/2008 7:39:18 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets." - Isaac Asimov)
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To: Roberts

John McCain’s campaign managers have proven themselves idiots. If not for a Plumber and Palin John McCain would not even have a remote chance at this point. We are going to defeat the left at the polls.


73 posted on 10/30/2008 7:39:27 AM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a government check!")
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To: ozark hilljilly
Indeed. There are about 50 assumptions you must swallow before you can even read the first word.

The Media has proven themselves to be fiction writers, only.

74 posted on 10/30/2008 7:39:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: Roberts
None of this sounds right. Why would a McCain adviser tell a hostile, 0bama supporting press that the boss's VP choice is “a diva” and another say she is “a whack job” if they are trying to get McCain elected? The last thing a true McCain supporter would do is slam Sarah Palin, but it is the first thing an 0bama supporter does. I'm not buying.
75 posted on 10/30/2008 7:39:48 AM PDT by GBA
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Could be. I would not be surprised.


76 posted on 10/30/2008 7:39:49 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Roberts

HA! If true, McCain is DONE in politics. Sarah is the only reason he’s even got a chance.


77 posted on 10/30/2008 7:40:07 AM PDT by rintense (All da mavericks in da house put yo hands up!)
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To: Roberts

The ONLY reason I’m going to vote today is because of Paulin.

McCain is an idiot - albeit a much lesser idiot than Obama.

If he looses this election, I wish he (and the Repulsican party as it presently exists) would just go away. Far away.


78 posted on 10/30/2008 7:41:22 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Roberts

What Simon appears to be saying is that non-Obamacorns are all a bunch of “wackjobs.” What a nice way for me to start the day and head off to work.


79 posted on 10/30/2008 7:41:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I'm voting for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: Roberts
Palin is light years ahead of McCain and his campaign weenies.

They can KMA.

80 posted on 10/30/2008 7:41:33 AM PDT by ryan71 (Be on GOD's side)
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